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The Effects of Poverty on Children’s Brains

The Effects of Poverty on Children’s Brains

What creates resiliency in children raised in poverty? Graduate student Tin Nguyen (Vanderbilt University) was our BrainStorm 2019 winner for his pitch that sought to provide a deeper understanding of the relationships between resilience, brain structure, and...
Beauty Perception and Your Brain

Beauty Perception and Your Brain

How the brain responds to beauty Beauty is elusive, and philosophers have tried for centuries to understand it. Now scientists are trying their hand as well. And while science cannot yet tell us what beauty is, Scientific American looks at how researchers can perhaps...
Memory Retention and Your Brain

Memory Retention and Your Brain

This is why you keep forgetting what you were doing when you enter a new room It’s probably happened to us all: you think of something you need to get or do in another room, and as soon as you walk in there you forget what that was. The Conversation explores...

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