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Brain Trauma Scientists Turn Their Attention to Soccer

Source: WIRED

Neurologists say another sport may rival football’s impact on the brain: soccer.

There's a Long Way To Go in Understanding the Brain

Source: Science News

Neuroscientists speculate on ways to plug gaps in current knowledge about neural circuitry.

Why Philosophers Are Obsessed With Brains in Jars

Source: The Atlantic

Preserved brains have had a mysterious appeal for decades.

Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories

Source: WIRED

Your brain's ability to collect, connect, and create mosaics from these milliseconds-long impressions is the basis of every memory. By extension, it is the basis of you.

What Goes On in Our Brains When We Are in Love?

Source: Scientific American

Xiaomeng (Mona) Xu, assistant professor of experimental psychology, and Ariana Tart-Zelvin, clinical doctoral candidate, both at Idaho State University, respond.