Brainy Sundays

Neuroscience blog by Master’s students of Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) at Freie Universität Berlin | Get your weekly neuroscience fix.

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Have you ever felt like you are on the same wavelength with someone? It might be because your brains literally are! Find out how deep your #friendship really goes! #socialneuroscience #SCAN

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Appreciate spontaneity. Stumble Upon. Allow rational mind take a back seat, daily! Lean in to know our silent processes.

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Whose Insight is it Anyway. https://t.co/WnWt4iuKfM

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Have you ever heard that some people perceive time strongly different than others?
Would you believe that time perception may be distorted by or is somehow related to the psychopathology of a mental illness?
Find out more in this new article!
https://t.co/f0wI8Ab0yl

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Meet the Organoids: Growing Human Brains in a Petri Dish https://t.co/v6l6jg37Sk

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Is Mark Zuckerberg a lizard?
Are they lying to us about the earth's shape?
And can you trust your own brain?
Check out the link below!

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There seems to be a similarity in uncontrolled, associative way, in which dreams and psychotic states proceed. This text deals with the question, if dreaming and psychosis can be assumed to share their core features. https://t.co/MZiyppQUMm

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Want to know what happens in your brain when you buy a chocolate bar? Then check out our new blog post on Neuroeconomics! https://t.co/R3a6RTgsRh

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Neuroscience makes a grand entrance to the free will debate. Also Netflix. Read this week’s article to find out what secrets about free will they reveal!

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More than a feeling:

Take a look at this brandnew article about the importance of somatosensory feedback in prosthetic hands via brain-machine interfaces and how researchers aim to include a sense of touch in robotic limbs.

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Fresh articles for brainy sundays are slowly awaking from hibernation - do you know what happens during hibernation in the animal brain and that understanding it can help us cure Alzheimer´s disease?
DOI: https://t.co/uKECZ2efoc

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Most people know that bacteria help us digest our food but may they even influence our behaviour? Find out more about gut bacteria and the brain in this weeks throwback-article!

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Ever wondered what optogenetics are really about? Well, here you go. We stole this informative video from @neuroyoutube and highly recommend it to everyone looking for an intro to optogenetics! Let the mice be lit https://t.co/6ebjpuiwRN

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Dear friends,
This blog will be taken over by the new cohort of the SCAN master. Due to organizational matters there will be no new posts by the middle of april. But stay tuned for fresh new input from the exciting world of neuroscience coming soon!

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BCI-Based Neuroprosthetics: Merging Neuroscience with Technology https://t.co/IQGiRLpnoT

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What is consciousness? Is it unique to humankind? What about animal consciousness? There is little that is more tantalising than the question of how and why consciousness came to exist in science. https://t.co/wiAm6DSc8Z

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Is it possible that similar sounds are used for certain objects? https://t.co/UqBC8hHyVD

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Birds do it,
Horses do it
Even crocodiles do it
Let's do it, let's all yawn! https://t.co/8pNjhxxv3t

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Sociality – is it really that important? https://t.co/8dEMqyJlBY

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Think with your head, AND with your heart https://t.co/Kk0nqTK3AO