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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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Shame’s long shadow

What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.

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The epilepsy diagnosis

Epilepsy exists between the mind and body, something that Aparna Nair experienced for herself when she was diagnosed as a teenager.

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Why all of us are evil

Science proves that we’re all capable of evil: your secret fantasy about killing someone you hate is surprisingly normal. But the way to better moral choices is to fight emotional instinct.

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  • Cerebral Cortex.
  • Brain: Cerebral Cortex, from van Leeuwenhoek, Epistolae physiologicae, 1719
  • Folded cortex, decalcomania
  • Fluorescent microspheres in the cortex
  • Cerebral cortex in a child.
  • Focal motor cortex cysticeriasis. 2002
  • Cerebral cortex of adult cat.
  • Focal motor cortex cysticeriasis. 2002
  • Cerebral cortex of a child.
  • Mapping fields in mouse visual cortex
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