What Loneliness Looks Like in the Brain
Consider three scenarios. A kid joins a new high school and eats lunch by herself. A recently separated man is alone for the New Year’s Eve countdown. A prisoner becomes…
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Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain
In Dante’s Inferno, the fifth circle of Hell is a place where the wrathful fight each other for eternity. Similarly, I often consider YouTube comments to be an extracanonical circle…
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LTP: When Neurons Make a Long-term Commitment
A few months ago, I got a new smart phone that had a bigger screen and a different operating system. For a while, I was annoyed that I made so…
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