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• This is your brain on gambling

  An MGH psychiatry researcher has found that gambling activates the brain in a way very similar to drug abuse, a discovery that has implications for how compulsive gamblers are treated... Boston news article.

  • 19 March 2008
  • Michelle Schlief
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• A soundtrack for the body

  Musician and Beth Israel neuroscientist Amir Lahav is working to rehabilitate stroke patients by turning their bodies into musical instruments... Boston news article.

  • 12 March 2008
  • Constanza Villalba
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• Neurotopographics

  The human brain finally gets the artistic treatment it deserves in a collaborative exhibition between a UCL neuroscientist, architect and visual artist.. London news article.

  • 18 January 2008
  • Angela Saini
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• From stem cells to spacesuits, a look back at this year’s research from Boston labs

  Local researchers demonstrated their leadership this year in neuroscience, stem cell research, genomics, and astronomy... Boston news article.

  • 19 December 2007
  • Mason Inman
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• The legacy of Charles Sherrington

  Few would know the name, but the London-born man who coined the terms ‘neuron’ and ‘synapse’, and first described antagonistic muscle action was born 150 years ago today... London news article.

  • 27 November 2007
  • Paul Wicks
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• In pursuit of a dream drug screen

  Harvard’s Lee Rubin says the near-term promise of embryonic stem cells will be realized in drug screening rather than in therapeutics. .. Boston news article.

  • 19 November 2007
  • Alexandra Goho
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• Can the brain be engineered and controlled like a machine?

  Engineering genomes is routine in biology, but MIT’s Ed Boyden wants to engineer the brain, opening the door to precise brain repair and even cognitive augmentation... Boston news article.

  • 15 November 2007
  • Peter Dizikes
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• Talks of the town

  The best science events in London this week.. London news article.

  • 09 November 2007
  • Matt Brown
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• Talks of the town

  Weekly roundup of the best science events in London... London news article.

  • 31 August 2007
  • Matt Brown
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• The eye as a window into the brain

  Studying the eye and learning to regenerate eye tissue could be the way toward neural repair, say local researchers... Boston news article.

  • 21 August 2007
  • Rachael Moeller Gorman
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