Jul 25 Watch Connecting strength and vulnerability of the creative brain By PBS News Hour Why have so many creative minds suffered from mental illness? Nancy Andreasen, Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has devoted decades of study to the physical differences in the brains of writers and other highly… Continue watching
Jul 25 Probing the creative brain By Jenny Marder "As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I’ve had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovable, tormented Kurt Vonnegut—will always be one of my favorites."… Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch How studying fruit flies and zebrafish might unlock secrets of the human brain By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 07 Neuroscientists protest Human Brain Project By Ariel Min More than 100 leading neuroscientists protested European commission-funded Human Brain Project in an open letter Monday, criticizing that the $1.6 billion project to stimulate human brain will waste money and harm neuroscience. Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch Mapping the circuitry of a fish’s brain By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Jun 09 Rats regret their decisions, study finds By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Regret, it turns out, is not just a human emotion. Rats regret their bad decisions too, a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience finds. And only a few of them learn from it. Continue reading
May 23 Watch What would Plato ask a neuroscientist? By PBS News Hour Can we reconcile the advancements of our modern world with Plato’s philosophical questions of free will? In “Plato at the Googleplex,” author Rebecca Goldstein imagines how Plato would approach neuroscience, the Internet and other technologies that make philosophy obsolete to… Continue watching
May 14 Poking cells, solving mysteries and other reasons scientists love basic research By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists and engineers frequently seek solutions to specific problems. But the goal -- and challenge -- of basic research is to tackle broad questions without an immediate application in mind. As part of our ongoing series on the subject, PBS… Continue reading
May 13 Watch NewsHour asks: why do you choose basic research? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Feb 21 Dogs have special ability to react to human speech, study shows By Robert Pursell A new study concludes that dogs' brains contain a vocal region that functions similarly to the region located in the temporal lobe of human brains. In addition, the researchers found that vocal emotional cues activated a similarly located non-primary auditory… Continue reading