Neuroscience
All content tagged with keyword 'neuroscience'
All content tagged with keyword 'neuroscience'
Prof VS Ramachandran
How does the brain create mind? We approach this problem by studying neurological patients. For example phantom limbs can tell us how the brain constructs body image. Controlled studies have shown tha...
Since the early 19th century, life expectancy in the developed world has been increasing by 6 hours or more a day. The trend is extraordinarily regular, despite the fact that very different factors ha...
Cognitive enhancing drugs are used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. These drugs improve the quality of l...
Moral philosophers have been arguing for centuries about the fundamental questions of ethics. In recent years, neuroscience has joined the debate, reporting surprising findings about the neural basis ...
Former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain