Brains to brilliance: The evolution of the mind towards cerebral thinking
Overall Schools Science Competition winner, Arushi Vasanad, explores the evolution of humans’ most powerful organ.
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Bigger isn’t always better: Rethinking intelligence in the animal kingdom
Chloe Dick reflects on whether a bigger brain does truly underpin increased intelligence within the animal kingdom.
PMDD: A Sisyphean disorder
In interview: Ester Paolocci speaks with Dr Thomas Reilly on the disorder that seemingly mimics the Greek Myth of Sisyphus.
Gut feelings: could your gut hold the key to Parkinson’s disease?
Waywen Loh delves into the rich diversity of the micoorganisms residing in our gut, and the therapeutic applications understanding it has.
Redefining mental health: the rise of computational psychiatry
SungJun Cho delves into the challenges of modern psychiatry and how computational psychiatry may alleviate these problems.
Disorders of consciousness are a clinical minefield. Here’s how we could be doing better
Charles Jenner explores the clinical subjectivity of consciousness and how neuroimaging may provide a new avenue to more accurate diagnoses.
To believe or not believe: Does free will exist?
Divya Prasad explores arguments against free will yet how the belief that we do hold some power over decisions may be better for individuals.
Science’s atlas of the human brain
Charles Jenner explores recent publications in Science that are aiming to discern the neuron geography of the brain.
How can the structure of our brains help to predict Californian wildfires?
Shikiera Wheeler outlines the fundamental concepts of neuroscience that give rise to the architecture of neural networks.
Decoding dizziness: Brain cells responsible for motion sickness identified
Isabelle Goodall-Summers reports on recent insight into “motion sickness neurons”—neurons that could explain our travel sickness on journeys.