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Serotonin deficiency may not cause depression after all

Posted in Science on 16th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

New research may lead to a more direct and effective treatment than common SSRI drugs.

A neuroscientist's radical theory of how networks become conscious

Posted in Science on 10th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery.

Memories are geotagged with spatial information, researchers find

Posted in Science on 5th Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Neurons that encode spatial information form geotags for specific memories and these geotags are activated immediately before those memories are recalled.

Solving the Neural Code Conundrum: Digital or Analog?

Posted in Science on 1st Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

Physicists have developed a technique that can tell which parts of the brain rely on analog signals and which rely on digital signals.