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The Royal Institution’s 2011 Christmas Lectures
Meet Your Brain Image: The Royal Institution The Royal Institution’s 2011 Christmas lectures are now available to view online
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Mind can control allergic response
Image: by parrchristy:Flickr You – or more accurately, your brain – has control over how allergic your skin is, suggests new research. A team of neuroscientists have found that if someone has a lesser...
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How your brain decides whether to ‘sell out’
Image:Emory University A neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that...
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Shrinking the brain – the damaging effects of alcohol.
The scientists used MRI data mapped onto an existing atlas of the mouse brain to compare the effects of drinking ethanol and water on brain volume overall and region-by-region in mice with and without...
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Brains Are Automatic, But People Are Free Michael Gazzaniga, one of the world’s leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, describes the mystery of free will. Whether you are a parent, a...
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Inside the Brains of Jurors
Image: iStockphotoWhen jurors sentencing convicted criminals are instructed to weigh not only facts but also tricky emotional factors, they rely on parts of the brain associated with sympathy and...
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How Trauma Affects a Childs Brain
Trauma affects the brain at any age, but when a child endures trauma, the result is profoundly tragic — it sets in motion a pattern of changes in the brain that can be devastating in adult life. Ruth...
View ArticleBlueprint for the brain
Episode 1: Blueprint for the Brain from Science Bytes on Vimeo. The brain is composed of billions of cells called neurons. One neuron receives inputs from thousands of other neurons and sends out its...
View ArticleBrain surgery patient plays guitar during procedure
A patient undergoing brain surgery at UCLA medical centre in California is filmed playing guitar during his procedure. Brad Carter, 39, had a brain pacemaker implanted to help treat his involuntary...
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