Feeling the pain of others
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British psychologists report that a significant minority of healthy people can experience painful sensations when observing others in pain
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Glimpsing memory traces in real time
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U.S. researchers have used multi-electrode arrays to observe how populations of hippocampal neurons encode and retrieve memory traces
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December 13, 2009
Project H.M., Phase I
Category: Neuroscience
IN February of this year, Jacopo Annese (above), a neuroanatomist and radiologist at the University of California, San Diego travelled to Boston to take delivery of a brain. For Annese, collecting brains is not unusual - he is, after all,...
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