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Brain Organoids

Neurobiologist Madeline Lancaster on brain development, cerebral organoids and how close they are to actually being brains

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Tactile Sensitivity

Cognitive neuroscientist Patrick Haggard on the Pacinian corpuscle, three attributes of the tactile sensations and how do we create a single coherent experience of what we touch

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Motor Neurons

Neurologist Kevin Talbot on the RNA transport down the axons, spinal muscular atrophy and why human motor neurons are vulnerable to diseases

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Spatial Navigation

Neuroscientist Neil Burgess on the discovery of place cells, spatial memory, and experiments with functional neuroimaging

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Brain Networks

Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University Sylvain Baillet on brain "software", brain mapping and neuronal interactions

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Brain cells get tweaked ‘on the go’

New research suggests that the ‘hardware’ in our brain is tuneable

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Dopamine system

Psychologist Samuel McClure on neurotransmitters, errors in prediction, and neuromarketing

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Neurophilosophy

Philosopher Patricia Churchland on discoveries in neuroscience, split consciousness, and levels of organisation in a neural circuit

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Internal metric of space is influenced by geometry of environment

New Nature paper reveals that brain perceives distance differently depending on surroundings

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The Role of Neuronal Identity in Synaptic Competition

Prof. Jeff Lichtman of Harvard University on the neuromuscular junction, loss of axon connections, and 'brainbow' mice