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The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds

The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work.

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The crimes against dopamine

For they be many and grievous

6 min readMar 13, 2017

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The crimes against dopamine

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Seventy Teams of Scientists Analysed the Same Brain Data, and It Went Badly

What the latest fMRI “crisis” means for the rest of science

7 min readJul 1, 2020

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Seventy Teams of Scientists Analysed the Same Brain Data, and It Went Badly

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Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers

Neural networks of neural networks

9 min readFeb 12, 2018

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Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers

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2023: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Dopamine is not the only fruit

11 min readDec 30, 2023

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2023: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

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It’s A Good Thing When I Don’t Know What I’m Writing About

Letting go of your expertise to tell a better story

6 min readJan 23, 2023

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It’s A Good Thing When I Don’t Know What I’m Writing About

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Four Books That Profoundly Influenced Me, Despite Not Having Read Them

The pervasive power of the written word

7 min readJan 16, 2023

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Four Books That Profoundly Influenced Me, Despite Not Having Read Them

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2022: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

A paean to being boring

9 min readDec 28, 2022

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2022: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

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2021: the review of the year in neuroscience

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends

11 min readDec 21, 2021

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Her Depression Was Untreatable — Until Two Electrodes Were Implanted in her Brain

How researchers are changing the brain’s messaging system to tackle mental health disorders

6 min readNov 22, 2021

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Her Depression Was Untreatable — Until Two Electrodes Were Implanted in her Brain

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Maps of a Growing Brain Show That Genes Do Less Than We Thought

The worm turns against genetic determinism

5 min readOct 20, 2021

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Maps of a Growing Brain Show That Genes Do Less Than We Thought

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Mark Humphries

Mark Humphries

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Theorist & neuroscientist. Writing at the intersection of neurons, data science, and AI. Author of “The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds”

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