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neuroscience

Ramón y Cajal

Life

Early sketches of the brain show Ramón y Cajal's artistic genius

Famous Spanish polymath Santiago Ramón y Cajal is often referred to as the father of neuroscience and created some of the earliest drawings of our brain cells

Regulars

Gloved hand holding glass dish containing little balls of tissue

Health

Mini-brains made from teeth help reveal what makes us sociable

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Office workers

Health

Brain's face recognition area grows much bigger as we get older

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Pregnant woman listening to music on iPod

Health

Becoming a mother may change the brain to read baby's mind

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Jackson Pollock painting

Humans

Neuroscience vs art: Let's talk across the divide

Culture

lamps

Humans

Super-you: Fine-tune your life by making goals into habits

Features

Scene from the BBC's Sherlock

Humans

Our brains record and remember things in exactly the same way

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Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

Health

Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery

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Superagers with amazing memories have Alzheimer’s brain plaques

Health

Superagers with amazing memories have Alzheimer’s brain plaques

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Illustration of brain

Technology

‘I’m more confident’: Paralysed woman’s life after brain implant

HB, who has ALS, is the first person to use a brain implant at home. Using electrodes placed under her skull, she is able to play games and communicate

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Technology

First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate

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Humans

Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing

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Humans

Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy

Features

Life

Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us

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