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A performance from the Netherlands-based comedy improv group Easy Laughs.

This is your brain on improv

Science and Creativity

Ever wondered about people who can improvise on stage? Neuroscientist Charles Limb and comedian Anthony Veneziale did. First came the bromance, then Veneziale found himself improvising inside an fMRI machine.

New research seeks to determine what dreams mean

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Scientist maps how brain changes when being creative

Arts, Culture & Media

Debate grows over fMRI scans

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What Beatboxing Tells Us About Language Acquisition

The World in Words

New Study Finds Hidden Traumatic Brain Injuries

A new study shows a way to identify traumatic brain injuries, which have been previously undetectable lending light on why some people exhibit signs of brain injury even while CT and MRI scans are normal. This may have implications for military personnel who survive blasts to be deemed healthy even while they feel the effects […]

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Emerging Science Note/Sugar Blues

Scientists find a link between diabetes and depression.

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Emerging Science Note/Sugar Blues

Scientists find a link between diabetes and depression.

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MRI Lead Study

A team of Cincinnati researchers is trying to tease out how lead poisoning affects the brain, and how these physical effects might correlate to behavioral changes. Living on Earth’s Cynthia Graber reports.

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Debate grows over the over-interpretation and misuse of fMRI scans

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Function MRI, or fMRI, promises to map and discover new patterns of brain activity that were previously inaccessible. But are scientists so caught up in the possibilities of modern neuroscience that they are missing something? Guest: Jonah Lehrer, author of ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’