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Brain Organoids

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

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

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

Spatial Navigation

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

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

Brain cells get tweaked ‘on the go’

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

Dopamine system

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

Neurophilosophy

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

Internal metric of space is influenced by geometry of environment

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

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

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