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"Hidden Brain" host Shankar Vedantam discusses his new book on "St. Louis on the Air."
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When Washington University neurosurgeons Albert Kim and Eric Leuthardt aren’t teaching, researching or performing surgery, they often think of creative…
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The early development of the human brain begins in utero and continues into a person’s early-to-mid-20s. In that time, various environmental factors such…
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Making sense of the ‘uncanny’: Wash U neuroscientist explains science behind Halloween horror flicksHalloween is here, and many are turning to their favorite horror films for an additional fright this season.Despite the popularity of horror movies – and…
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Washington University neurosurgeons host Brain Coffee podcast to start conversations about the brainThe brain is crucial to everything we do – yet so little is known about it. The complexity of the human brain is of constant interest to Albert Kim and…
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At an experimental mine at the Missouri University of S&T in Rolla, scientists are setting off explosives around lab mice and cell cultures to study how…
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A mind-controlled robotic glove under development by Washington University scientists could give hope to those whose hands have become paralyzed due to a…
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In 1962, a strange epidemic swept through several communities in Tanganyika, present-day Tanzania. It wasn’t a virus, but laughter among teenage…
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In the late 1990s, before Sandra Langeslag began attending college, she was dumped. Then a few months later, she fell in love again.“I was very curious. I…
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Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay’s recent book, “The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,” as a…