Watching Game of Thrones in an MRI scanner to help throw light on how brains process faces
Fascinating new study on face blindness or prosopagnosia hits the neuroscience press
Adolescent Brains in the 21st Century by Dr Jack
Adolescence is a time of trial and error, of the highest emotional highs and the lowest lows. By adulthood most of us have accrued enough experience to have an instinct on the right way to deal with most situations. But adults often forget that as children our instincts were usually very unreliable because, without enough time to develop extensive experience, instincts are driven primarily by the urge to experiment.
What Goes On in a Teenage Brain? by Dr Jack Lewis
At the onset of puberty the grey matter reaches maximum thickness and that key process of maturation, neuronal pruning, begins in the adolescent brain. This process does not occur uniformly across the whole brain but instead starts at the back of the brain and gradually progresses towards the front of the brain over a period of several years.
Booze, Weed and the Human Brain
A recently published study has revealed fascinating insights into differences in the impact of recreational alcohol and cannabis use on human brain structure