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A Journey Into the Brain
Danielle Gerhard, PhD
| Mar 22, 2024
| 10+ min read
With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.
What Made Human Brains So Big?
Ashley Yeager
| May 24, 2018
| 2 min read
Ecological challenges such as finding food and creating fire may have led the organ to become abnormally large, a new computer model suggests.
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When Brains Dream
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
| Dec 1, 2020
| 8 min read
Ferreting out the biological function of dreaming is a frontier in neuroscience.
Opinion: What Animals Can Teach Us About Fear
Daniel T. Blumstein
| Oct 1, 2020
| 3 min read
Fear binds us to our human and nonhuman ancestors. Understanding the emotion can help us grapple with challenges we face today.
Opinion: The Biological Function of Dreams
Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra
| Dec 1, 2020
| 3 min read
The scenarios that run through our sleeping brains may help us explore possible solutions to concerns from our waking lives.
New Caledonian Crows Build Tools From Mental Images, Not Lessons
Sukanya Charuchandra
| Jun 29, 2018
| 2 min read
When it comes to tool making, the birds learn differently than humans.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant
| May 1, 2014
| 3 min read
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Wa
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
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Bob Grant
| Jan 31, 2011
| 3 min read
Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science
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Bob Grant
| Feb 1, 2015
| 3 min read
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Opinion: Why Mammalian Brains are Geared Toward Kindness
Patricia Churchland
| Oct 1, 2019
| 3 min read
Neuroscience is starting to unravel the evolutionary underpinnings of mammals’ selflessness.
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