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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.

2023

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The crimes against dopamine

For they be many and grievous

Mar 13, 2017

The crimes against dopamine

Mar 13, 2017

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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

Jul 1, 2020

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

Jul 1, 2020

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Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers

Neural networks of neural networks

Feb 12, 2018

Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers

Feb 12, 2018

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2023: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Dopamine is not the only fruit

Dec 30, 2023

2023: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Dec 30, 2023

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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

Jan 23, 2023

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

Jan 23, 2023

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

The pervasive power of the written word

Jan 16, 2023

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

Jan 16, 2023

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2022: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

A paean to being boring

Dec 28, 2022

2022: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience

Dec 28, 2022

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2021: the review of the year in neuroscience

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends

Dec 21, 2021

2021: the review of the year in neuroscience

Dec 21, 2021

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Elemental

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

Nov 22, 2021

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

Nov 22, 2021

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

The worm turns against genetic determinism

Oct 20, 2021

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

Oct 20, 2021

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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