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The Hidden Neuroscience of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was appreciated in his day for his art, music, and engineering feats, but his findings about the brain went largely unheralded, because his notes and detailed anatomical drawings went unpublished for centuries.
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The Journey to the Cognitive Map

2014 Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe described the path to our understanding of how place works in the brain during a special lecture celebrating the British Neuroscience Association’s 50th year.
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From One Man’s Vision to a Global Campaign: Celebrating 20 years of Brain Awareness Week

Increasing enthusiasm from the science community and the public has led to the expansion of Brain Awareness Week to five continents. We look back on the campaign’s evolution.
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Solving the Mystery of Memory

The word “memory” is derived from the ancient Greek myth of Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses, who was “said to know everything, past, present, and future.” Memory is essential to our existence, and one of neuroscience’s primary missions is to understand how the brain processes memory and to improve treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, drug addiction, and the many other afflictions associated with disrupted memory. Our article traces scientists’ progress in understanding memory over the last 15 years.
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A Decade after The Decade of the Brain

In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the NIH examine how brain research has progressed since 2000.

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Updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

How the foremost clinical manual for psychiatric disorders guides doctors to diagnoses has long been controversial. Now, during the early stages of the manual’s revision, complementary articles—one by four scientists involved in the process, the other by a psychiatrist looking in from the outside—address how to make psychiatric diagnosis both more certain and more flexible.

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Connectomics

Tracing the Wires of the Brain

With the help of high-tech computers and electron microscopes, scientists are working toward mapping the connections of the human brain. Through descriptions of the where the technology is now and where it could go, Sebastian Seung illustrates how it might later be used to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the brain.
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Transforming Drug Development Through Brain Imaging

After years of research and enormous expense, perhaps only one in a hundred potential drugs for a brain disorder will receive government approval and make it to the person who needs it. Neuroimaging may change this dramatically.
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Neuroethics Society Launched

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An interdisciplinary group of neuroscientists, scholars, and clinicians has followed the lead of the geneticists and, in May, met at Asilomar to discuss the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in brain research.
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Cognitive Fitness for the Older and Wiser

Scientists have assumed the relationship between the dominant and non-dominant hemispheres of our brain is fixed. Not so, argues Goldberg: Mentally active people continue to develop their dominant hemisphere throughout their lives, strengthening reasoning, memory, and emotional control.
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