This is part six of nine of the NERS poll of the year, in which you good people tell me your favourite stories of the year, as covered in this blog, through the medium of button-clicking. Each poll features a specific scientific discipline, and today neuroscience craves your attention. Your choices:
- Guerrilla reading - what former revolutionaries tell us about the neuroscience of literacy
- Pre-emptive blood flow raises big questions about fMRI
- Tetris to prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder flashbacks
- Beta-blocker drug erases the emotion of fearful memories
- Why information is its own reward - same neurons signal thirst for water, knowledge
- Electrical stimulation produces feelings of free will
- How wearing a cast affects sense of touch and brain activity
- Erasing a memory reveals the neurons that encode it
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