Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new ...

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So the first year of that program, we had a course in neuroanatomy, the structure of the human brain. And to me, it was one of the most beautiful structures that I'd ever seen. I fell in love with ...

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Think of it as a way to create a copy of your brain, a transmission ... computations that make the human mind come alive. It’s hard to express how very far we are from this. Here’s another way: ...