Brain World Magazine

An online magazine dedicated to your brain—we explore how neuroscience impacts our culture, education, health, society, technology, wellness, and more.

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"Causal perceptions or expectations tell us in what order things happen. If I believe the impact is necessary for the glass to break, I perceive the shuttering after the impact—even if events followed a different order," says @UCL's Christos Bechlivanidis. https://t.co/7ACstOKW37

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"The brain not only merges images from the previous 15 seconds, but it also operates on a 15-second delay ... operating on a delay means we may unknowingly blend images from the past into our present," reports @DiscoverMag's Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi. 🧠 https://t.co/CEiujrLobJ

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"Our finding that cortical areas are sparsely connected implies that this integration is accomplished either via linkage of the dense local connections or by rare, extraordinarily privileged long-range axons," says @UCSanDiego's @BqRosen_. 🧠 #neuroscience https://t.co/e4m5cLWevW

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"Forgiveness is my safety valve against the kind of toxic anger that could kill me. Waiting for the apology is to misunderstand your free will—it's to misunderstand the medicine that is forgiveness," says @UWMadison's Dr. Robert Enright. 🧠 #MentalHealth https://t.co/mLfZlkeemC

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"The man had learned to select—not directly with his eyes but by imagining his eyes moving—individual letters from the steady stream that the computer spoke aloud," reports @Jonathan_Moens. 🧠 #neuroscience https://t.co/BeLYZVtYzu

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"For people with misophonia there is abnormal communication between the auditory and motor brain regions ... a 'super-sensitized connection.' 🧠 This is the first time such a connection in the brain has been identified for the condition," says @SKumar_NCL. https://t.co/pstmMVdcLQ

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"I think everybody has thought that there's a whole range of ways that a brain could be storing memories. The beauty of it is, I bet all of them are right. And the question's going to be: How does it all work together?" says @USC's Dr. Scott Fraser. 🔍🧠 https://t.co/c2HRNrGLtR

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"One of the things that was shocking to everybody at the time and now seems fairly mundane is that his brain looks just like anybody else's ... there's no evidence that you can predict a genius brain," says @CarnegieMellon's Dr. Timothy Verstynen. 🧠 https://t.co/PSjG3JBjPW

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"Profit-seeking companies & individuals now have a new weapon: It is no longer necessary to demonstrate the effectiveness of their proposed therapies; it's enough to assert they work because of the placebo effect," says @KnowableMag's Fabrizio Benedetti. https://t.co/GTuXghjI1O

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"Santiago Ramón y Cajal is known as the father of modern neuroscience. Cajal was the first to see that the brain is built of discrete cells, the 'butterflies of the soul,' as he put it, that hold our memories, thoughts, and emotions," says @LSScienceNews. https://t.co/DHULi2olyS

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"The true marvel of the brain—its control of behavior. It is the processing and translation of sensory information into appropriate behaviors that—is the key to understanding how the brain actually works," says @Tim_Jorgensen. 🧠 #neuroscience 🔬 #research https://t.co/NVWXYaeqZm

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"... that doesn't mean animals never develop the neurological changes associated with dementia. In fact, some animals undergo brain changes similar to those seen in patients with Alzheimer's disease," reports @AveryHurt. 🧠 #health 🔬 #neuroscience https://t.co/oCtge5JGUx

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"The brain is like an orchestra. In a symphony, instruments play diverse tunes with different tempos and timbres ... The ensemble of neuronal activities mediates specific aspects of our behavior," says @MPFNeuro's Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki. 🧠 #neuroscience https://t.co/8bplXxspGR

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"It really is—for a number of reasons—a perfect time for folks to turn their attention to taking an inventory. 🔍 Where do I find myself? What have I been through? 🤔 You do always have a choice," says @DrPaulNapper. 🧠 #health ➡️ #MentalHealthMatters https://t.co/OmvZ4C9y4H

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"The brain switches back on one section at a time—abstract problem-solving capabilities—are the functions that come back online the quickest. Other brain areas, including those managing reaction time and attention, take longer," reports @DavidNield. 🧠 https://t.co/BNgHVAzNRU

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"A huge unanswered challenge in artificial intelligence, namely the problem of building algorithms that can learn continually without corrupting previously learned information. The brain manifestly achieves this," says @Cambridge_Uni's Dr. Timothy O’Leary. https://t.co/aCHHzBJ48D

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"This is just how the brain changes with chronic stress. It's doing it to try to protect me ... Having that kind of insight and perspective can break the vicious cycle where you're blaming yourself for not being better," says @YaleMed's Dr. Amy Arnsten. 🧠 https://t.co/tDq14wxkqZ

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"When people whose brain networks aren't functioning optimally engage in physical activity, we see improvement in their executive function and their independence," says @UniversityOfGA's Dr. Marissa Gogniat.🚶‍♀️#health 🧠 #neuroscience 🦉 #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/eImEh4HbzG

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"A newly discovered kind of brain cell involved in memory formation seems to mark the boundary between distinct events as we experience them. The neurons, which have been called 'boundary cells,' fire when new events happen," reports @ClareWilsonMed. 🧠 https://t.co/lHT3trKuGh

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"People who have even a mild case of #COVID19 may have accelerated aging of the brain and other changes to it ... Many of those changes were in the area of the brain related to the sense of smell," reports @CNN's Nadia Kounang. 🧠 #health 🔬 #neuroscience https://t.co/zUOs8xegE0