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Politics of HIV/AIDS and the Singing Brain

by Quang Nguyen Globally, over 35 million people were living with HIV in 2012 (1). In addition to severe physical and immunological deterioration associated with the progression of the illness,...

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Psychoactive Fungi: The World Before and After Psilocybin

by Tristan Wang In 1960, on a summer day in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary and several friends ingested a bowlful of psilocybin mushrooms, an experience that Leary later...

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Optogenetics: A New Frontier

by Jen Guidera Neuroscientists often try to correlate observable behavior with activity in the brain. This is a grand undertaking, with the human brain containing an estimated 86 billion neurons and...

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No More Meds: Schizophrenia and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

by Brendan Pease Imagine a high school student named Lisa. A high achiever, both academically and athletically, Lisa gains admission to Duke University in her senior year, is voted “Most Likely to...

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Overstepping your Passion? The Science of Obsession

by Carrie Sha The famous late nineteenth-century writer Franz Kafka once counseled, “Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” Although his advice seems to be a simple call for following our...

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Exploring the Avian Mind

by Caitlin Andrews In June 1977, in a small laboratory at Purdue University, Irene Pepperberg stood with her arm outstretched toward a large bird cage, trying to coax a quivering Grey Parrot out of the...

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The 3D Bioprinting Revolution

by Suraj Kannan Perhaps no technology has grown as rapidly and promised so much in the last decade as 3D printing. Although the first industrial 3D printer was built in the 1980s, improvements in...

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A Commentary on Medical Education

by Lauren Claus The practice of medicine is filled with intimate and delicate moments; physicians are entrusted with tasks such as delivering a painful diagnosis, encouraging a patient to embark on a...

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Brain and Language on the Fly

The Neuroscience of Linguistic Improvisation by Elizabeth Beam   It’s like when I’m on the mic I can squish a  Sucka like a vice grip, my pen put ya In the slaughterhouse cause your style’s been...

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Humans Computers And Everything in Between: Towards Synthetic Telepathy

by Linda Xu When you imagine telepathy, your mind probably jumps immediately to science fiction: the Vulcans of Star Trek, Legilimency in Harry Potter, or the huge variety of superheroes and...

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