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Miniature 'human brain' grown in lab - 0 views

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    Miniature "human brains" have been grown in a lab in a feat scientists hope will transform the understanding of neurological disorders.
John Crane

Molecular basis for jet lag found - 0 views

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    Scientists believe they have figured out why it takes us so long to adapt when we travel to new time zones.
John Crane

BBC News - What can a brain scan tell us about free will? - 0 views

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    We all think we have control of our actions but if a brain tumour or injury can completely change our personality, what does that tell us about free will, asks David Edmonds.
John Crane

Human behaviour: is it all in the brain - or the mind? - 0 views

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    Neuroimaging is widely regarded as the key to understanding everything we do, but the authors of a controversial new book, Brainwashed, claim this approach is misguided and dangerous
John Crane

Revealed: how exam results owe more to genes than teaching » The Spectator - 0 views

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    New research by Professor Robert Plomin shows genes are more important than we like to think
John Crane

6 areas of research that offer fascinating conclusions on sexuality | TED Blog - 0 views

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    he standard narrative of human sexual evolution says: men provide women with goods and services in exchange for women's sexual fidelity. But is that really true or relevant today? Christopher Ryan, the co-author of Sex at Dawn with Cacilda Jethá, takes a deeper look and has quite a few bones to pick with this idea.
John Crane

Peter Doolittle: How your working memory makes sense of the world. - 0 views

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    Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance -- and limitations -- of your "working memory," that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what's happening right now.
John Crane

Is misused neuroscience defining early years and child protection policy? | Education |... - 0 views

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    The idea that a child's brain is irrevocably shaped in the first three years increasingly drives government policy on adoption and early childhood intervention. But does the science stand up to scrutiny?
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