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How does my brain work?

How exactly does the brain -- a 3-pound snarl of nervous tissue -- create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, the sense of self? Researchers at the edge of science explain ...

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Neil Burgess

How your brain tells you where you are

Nadine Burke Harris

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Sandrine Thuret

You can grow new brain cells. Here's how

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

What is so special about the human brain?

Jeff Iliff

One more reason to get a good night's sleep

Daniel Wolpert

The real reason for brains

Antonio Damasio

The quest to understand consciousness

Paul Bloom

The origins of pleasure

Pawan Sinha

How brains learn to see

Allan Jones

A map of the brain