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Some patients with brain injuries have life support withdrawn too soon, study suggests
By Emily Cooke published
A small modeling study suggests that some patients with severe traumatic brain injury may have recovered had they been kept on life support for longer.
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How people without 'inner voices' could help reveal the mysteries of consciousness
By Derek Arnold published
The lack of an inner monologue seems linked to a lower ability to recall words and predict their sounds.
![an illustration of the classic rotating snakes illusion, made up of many concentric circles with alternating stripes layered on top of each other](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/z78DAFmPAVeD6jmzUYXvin-320-80.jpg)
32 optical illusions and why they trick your brain
By Patrick Pester published
Artists and scientists have been creating optical illusions for centuries. Here are 32 mind-bending examples that prove you can't always trust what your eyes are telling you.
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'When you improve nutrition, you reduce violence': Psychologist Kimberley Wilson on working in Europe's largest women's prison
By Sascha Pare published
Kimberley Wilson has worked in prisons and with patients from all walks of life. Her years of providing therapy suggest improved nutrition could be key to mental health and brain function.
![Microscopic image of two blobs of cells merging together; the one on the right is stained bright green](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/X9Y3T9TRsFknAyrk2vqWVZ-320-80.jpg)
In a 1st, scientist grow mini brains with functional blood-brain barriers
By Nicoletta Lanese published
New "assembloids" grown from stem cells offer a tiny, working model of the blood-brain barrier.
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The enigmatic 'brain microbiome' could play a role in neurological disease
By Janosch Heller published
Some research suggests the brain has its own microbiome, but scientists don't know much about it.
![Colorful, rainbow colored rendering of thousands of neurons from a brain sample that have been assembled in a map](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nuudduwUTdHGpwEXjry3S7-320-80.jpg)
New 3D map charted with Google AI reveals 'mysterious but beautiful' slice of human brain
By Sneha Khedkar published
Harvard and Google researchers have collaborated to map a tiny fragment of an adult human brain in unprecedented detail.
![An example of the neon color spreading illusion. Here, four black circles are besides each other in a square shape. Each circle contains a series of progressively smaller circles within it. In the center there appears to be a patch of green in the shape of a circle. The background of the whole image is white.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/g5X6MXYkszYSkVqoKhwejA-320-80.png)
Optical illusion reveals key brain rule that governs consciousness
By Emily Cooke published
A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works.
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