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Brain Scientist: How Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Gets One Thing Deeply Wrong
Wbur: Pixar’s “Inside Out” is the latest in a long tradition of animated entertainment that teaches us about science. Chemistry, as I learned from Saturday morning cartoons, is about mixing colorful, bubbling liquids in test Visit Page
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How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car
NPR: If you run into an old friend at the train station, your brain will probably form a memory of the experience. And that memory will forever link the person you saw with the place Visit Page
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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 Visit Page
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Understanding stress and its signals
The Boston Globe: Lisa Feldman Barrett thinks we’ve long misunderstood how our brains work — and what’s going on when we’re stressed. For decades, scientists have assumed that the brain simply responded to signs from Visit Page
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To Treat Depression, a New Approach Tries Training the Brain
The Wall Street Journal: Should depression be treated more like a stroke? That’s the view of a growing number of researchers developing new psychological treatments that aim to directly target the particular brain dysfunctions and Visit Page
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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 Visit Page