Running and neurogenesis; the plastic brain

A new   paper online in the Journal of Physiology ("Physical exercise increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male rats provided ...

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Did my genes make me do it?

David Brooks of the New York Times seems to be heavily into neuroscience these days. Having dismissed evolutionary psychology some time ago...

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Now Hear This (Shape)!

About 1% of the population has synaesthesia, the conflation of several modes of perception into one. Some synasthetes always associate a pa...

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