Joel’s Pick

So that’s what the claustrum does!

September 24, 2020October 31, 2020 Joel Frohlich claustrum, Consciousness, Interviews, Joel's Pick, Optogenetics, Research, Sleep, sleep waves

Three years ago, I asked “What the heck is a claustrum?” In that piece, I described the mystery of this oddly shaped brain region, located just below the cerebral cortex.… Read more

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