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The Work We Do While We Sleep
The New Yorker: It’s strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we’re sleeping, we’re vulnerable—and, at least on the
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How the Brains of ‘Super-Multitaskers’ Are Different
New York Magazine: Multitasking, we’ve been told constantly in recent years, is something human beings aren’t naturally good at. Even though technology has given us more opportunities than ever before to, say, work while checking
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Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain
The Washington Post: Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test
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Brain Methods Course
A “Brain Connectivity Methods” workshop will be held July 27–31, 2015, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants will learn to use the connectivity toolbox: SPM12, FSL, and CONN. We’re hosting a Brain Methods course
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Is Gender Identity Biologically Hard-wired?
PBS: JUDY WOODRUFF: Now another installment in our series Transgender in America. A small number of children as young as 3 are beginning to understand their gender identity as something different from what they were
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Decoding the Neural Signature of Consciousness
Consciousness has kept philosophers and scientists occupied for centuries. Lofty ideas related to humanity, agency, and responsibility all relate to the thing we call “consciousness”; and yet, we still don’t understand how this elevated concept
