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How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Health

How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Most psychiatric drugs were developed before brain scans existed. Now neuroscientist Mitul Mehta is using scans of people under the influence of drugs or hypnosis to help develop better treatments

Features

Electric current helps dampen tics in people with Tourette's syndrome

Health

Electric current helps dampen tics in people with Tourette's syndrome

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Neurons in cages

Health

Brain cells reach out to each other through miniature cages

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Rotten fish

Health

Rotten fish smell could detect awareness in people with brain injuries

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Rats

Technology

Robots with 3D-printed muscles are powered by the spines of rats

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Stress early in life can make a child’s brain more like an adult's

Mind

Stress early in life can make a child’s brain more like an adult's

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Pearse Keane at 91av Live 2019

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How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

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Neuron cells

Health

Genetically modified neurons could help us connect to implants

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Don't miss: War in Westworld, the power of sight and unearthly audio

Humans

Don't miss: War in Westworld, the power of sight and unearthly audio

Culture

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Humans

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

This week, watch architecture make music, remember the Yanomami and measure your superiority to machines

Culture

Humans

Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

Features

Video

Can we really choose our own fate, or is free will an illusion?

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Humans

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

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Who are we? A conversation between Buddhism and neuroscience

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