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What really happens when we make and store memories has been unravelled in a discovery that surprised even the scientists who made it.

Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten

Simply remembering everything that happens to us is not the point of memory.

Memory: The Freakiest Ever Fact is Actually True - PsyBlog

A map of the brain’s wiring reveals the spaces may be just as important as the connections – and you have the holes to thank for your most impressive mental feats

Mind the gaps: The holes in your brain that make you smart

The genetic makeup of any given brain cell differs from all others. That realization may provide clues to a range of psychiatric diseases

Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike

The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind

The Neuroscience of Changing Your Mind

How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.

How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners

“Super Agers” Have Brains That Look Young Older adults who perform like young people on tests of memory have a shrink-resistant cortex

“Super Agers” Have Brains That Look Young

According to two neuroscience experts, the field focuses far too much on the anatomy of the nervous system, and not enough on behavior.

Does Modern Neuroscience Really Help us Understand Behavior? - Mad In America

Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience

Reading the Bible Through Neuroscience

Neuroplasticity As Seen by Neuroscience Pioneer Santiago Ramón Y Cajal 100 Years Ago

The Creativity Post | Neuroplasticity As Seen by Neuroscience Pioneer…

A study of people born with one hand suggests neuroscientists may have fundamentally misunderstood the way the brain is organised, a scientist has claimed. Dr Tamar Makin, of University College London, said the new theory – if proved correct – would have “massive implications”, adding it was “mind-blowing” to think that scientists could have been mistaken for so long.

‘Mind-blowing’ discovery could revolutionise our understanding of how brain works

“Significant loss of neurons is a normal part of ageing” and other brain cell myths

“Significant loss of neurons is a normal part of ageing” and other brain cell myths

Nature, Meet Nurture Single-cell analysis reveals dramatic landscape of genetic changes in the brain after visual stimulation

A Caltech team has deciphered the way we identify faces, re-creating what the brain sees from its electrical activity

How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code

First ever study into how spaceflight changes brain structure

First ever study into how spaceflight changes brain structure

Precise knowledge of the connections in the brain – the links between all the nerve cells – is a prerequisite for better understanding this most complex of organs. Now researchers have developed a new algorithm for analyzing image data.

Progress towards a circuit diagram of the brain

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