While the strength of the placebo effect has been steady in the rest of the world, its magnitude has steadily strengthened in the United States.
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Sculpture at WFIU Public Radio. Photo credit Scott Witzke.
Optogenetics: Illuminating the mysteries of the brain
Despite the brain’s centrality to everything that makes being human interesting, we know fairly little about how the brain works at a detailed circuit level.
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We forgot how to sleep the way our ancestors did.
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