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neuroscience

Gloved hand holding glass dish containing little balls of tissue

Health

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

Tiny balls of brain tissue made from donated stem cells from children with autism or a condition that makes them hyper-sociable show intriguing differences

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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

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

Technology

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

After training on whack-a-mole and Pong, a woman paralysed by ALS has become the first person to use a brain implant at home, communicating by thought alone

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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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Mind

Quadriplegic man feels touch on robotic hand with brain implant

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