Emotions are not vague psychological feelings but brain functional states amenable to precise neuroscientific study. The amygdala's central role in fe
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Addiction in modern neuroscience is defined as a chronic relapsing brain disease, not a moral failing or willpower problem. Dopamine reward system dys
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Neuroplasticity overturned the old dogma that "the adult brain is fixed; dead neurons aren't replaceable." From London taxi drivers' hippocampal resea
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Consciousness is one of neuroscience's last frontiers: how does subjective experience (qualia — the feeling of red, the hurt of pain) emerge from neur
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Memory is one of the brain's most central functions, but where memories are stored and how they form were nearly mysterious until the mid-20th century
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