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A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response. Get ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

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Buildings can be rebuilt, as they have been countless times throughout history, but the human mind is far more difficult to heal. The story of Dr. Mohammed Abu Mughessib, who was the Médecins Sans ...