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We wanted to thank everyone again for their support. We have been putting our heads down and working hard on research and collecting data. Thanks to the support of our backers we have managed to ac...
Thank you!
We would like to thank everyone who came together to support our project and make this possible! We are excited to begin the next step in our campaign and start collecting data and ...
Risky decision-making as a hot new topic for research
Understanding how the brain makes decisions, specifically under conditions that involve risk and uncertainty, is becoming a hot new topic in Neuroscience. A recent study published i...
Sudden rise in Drug Overdose Deaths
Last year, 125 people died from drug overdoses every day in the United States. 125 every day!! With a human toll reaching levels similar to H.I.V. at its peak, this undeniable publi...
The Ethics of Animal Research
Animal research poses a difficult moral question, asking us to balance our concerns about the well being of fellow humans with those about the well being of another species. Scient...
Using lasers to trigger compulsive behavior
The project that we are proposing is inspired by work that we recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience. We demonstrated that by activating a part of the brain called the Central Amygdala, ...
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