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Where Can You Find the Good Place to Do Good Science?

FILE PHOTO: A doctor holds a human brain in a brain bank in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, US June 28, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Carlo

Scientists Hunt Down Genes Behind Humankind’s Big Brain

Hina Bhat at a conference in Japan in 2014. Source: Author provided

The Lives and Times of Kashmir’s Women Scientists

Ben Barres, Neuroscientist and Gender Identity Leader, Passes Away at 63

A mother’s voice can soothe a child in stressful situations, reducing levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, and increasing levels of oxytocin, the social bonding hormone. Credit: valentinap/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain

It’s Time to Get Cerebral About Trauma – a Neuroscientist Leads the Way

© Aaron Tilley and Kerry Hughes

Dysphagia: It’s Like Being Waterboarded 24 Hours a Day