Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
Hurt Blocker
The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.
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Tech
Paralyzed woman grips, sips coffee with robot arm
For the first time, a brain-computer interface is powerful enough to enable useful movement in human patients.
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Neuroscience
Demystifying the Mind
A special report on the scientific struggle to explain the conscious self.
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Neuroscience
Self as Symbol
The loopy nature of consciousness trips up scientists studying themselves.
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Health & Medicine
Going Under
While every anesthetic drug has its own effect, scientists know little about how the various versions work on the brain to transport patients from normal waking awareness to dreamless nothingness.
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Neuroscience
The Tell-Tale Brain
A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran.
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Psychology
Joint attention provides clues to autism and cooperation
Psychologists and philosophers convene to discuss the roots of shared knowledge at a meeting in Waltham, Mass.
By Bruce Bower