Today’s Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology went to a trio of researchers who figured out the basis of how the brain tracks and manages space, a task that is closely tied to memory. This ability to remember and manage space — to navigate your way through life — is vital. Here, in a brief story I told at a Story […]
Continue reading →Neuron Culture blogger and science journalist David Dobbs recently learned there was a hole in the middle of his brain. Listen to him recount the story in a new podcast.
Continue reading →This Tuesday evening, May 22, I’ll be part of the “I Am Science” story-telling and music mash-up in Brooklyn. To celebrate the two-year anniversary of the wonderful StoryCollider outfit, neuroscientists Joy Hirsch and Joe LeDoux, science cheerleader Darlene Cavalier, and I will tell how science got into our heads. Joe LeDoux’s fearless band, The Amygdaloids, will […]
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