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Obama to Unveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
The New York Times: President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, senior administration officials
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The Teenage Brain: How Do We Measure Maturity?
Holden Caulfield is the archetypal American teenager. Or at least he was, way back in the 20th century. His misadventures, narrated in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, may seem quaint by today’s standards
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau
University of California, Davis www.elizablissmoreau.com What does your research focus on? The goal of my research program is to understand the biological underpinnings of affect and emotion, with a particular focus on the mechanisms that
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Virginia Sturm
University of California, San Francisco canlab.ucsf.edu What does your research focus on? My research focuses on how neural systems support emotion and how disruption in these systems relates to alterations in emotion and empathy. I
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Philipp Kanske
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences www.kanske.de www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/kanske-291 What does your research focus on? My research interests evolve around the central topic of “emotion”. Specifically, my work tries to elucidate how emotions
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Our brains, and how they’re not as simple as we think
The Guardian: I never used to discuss neuroscience on the bus but it’s happened twice in the last month. On one occasion a fellow passenger mentioned that her “brain wasn’t working properly” to explain that
