Neuroscience

The scientific study of the nervous system.

Parent category: Medicine

Articles (4)

• The Placebo Effect: How Belief Changes Health
  The placebo effect is a real improvement caused by expectation, not an active treatment. Learn how it works in the brain, where it helps, and what it cannot do.
• Octopus Intelligence: How a Soft-Bodied Mind Works
  Octopuses have about 500 million neurons, most of them in their arms, and solve puzzles, use tools, and escape tanks. Explore how their alien intelligence works.
• Unihemispheric Sleep: Sleeping with Half a Brain
  Dolphins, seals, and some birds sleep one brain hemisphere at a time — what the EEG shows, why voluntary breathers and vulnerable sleepers evolved it, and what it says about sleep itself.
• Synaptic Transmission
  The process by which neurons communicate across synapses using neurotransmitters, and how it is modulated and terminated.

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