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Different colored cartoon viruses entering holes in a cartoon of a human brain.
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.
Killing with Kindness
Barbara Oakley, Guruprasad Madhavan, Ariel Knafo, and David Sloan Wilson | Feb 1, 2012 | 3 min read
Studying the evolution of altruistic behaviors reveals how knee-jerk good intentions can backfire.
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.
Book Excerpt from The Nature of Fear
Daniel T. Blumstein | Oct 21, 2020 | 4 min read
In the book’s prologue, author Daniel T. Blumstein explains his introduction to the study of fear.
Book cover of The Phantom God by John C. Wathey
Opinion: Neuroscience Could Help Demystify Religious Experience
John C. Wathey | Jan 2, 2023 | 4 min read
If we ask the right questions, modern tools could help researchers solve mysteries such as why many people believe in a God that both provides unconditional love and levies eternal damnation.
New and Old Techniques in Modern Neuroscience
Alison F. Takemura | Oct 1, 2016 | 6 min read
Imaging and manipulating the brain has come a long way from electrodes and the patch clamp, though such traditional tools remain essential.
Understanding the Roots of Human Musicality
Catherine Offord | Mar 1, 2017 | 10+ min read
Researchers are using multiple methods to study the origins of humans’ capacity to process and produce music, and there’s no shortage of debate about the results.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Feb 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Touch, The Altruistic Brain, Is Shame Necessary?, and Future Arctic
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Nov 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Leonardo's Brain, The Future of the Brain, Dodging Extinction, and Arrival of the Fittest
How Art Can Inform Brain Science, and Vice Versa
Eric Kandel | Sep 1, 2016 | 3 min read
Reductionism may be the key to bridging the gap between the humanities and the sciences.

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