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How we get high: Unlocking the secrets of the endocannabinoid system

The endocannabinoid system that helps cannabis get us high is also vital to many other aspects of our health. Now we’re finally starting to understand why – and what that means for devising new treatments

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Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to recipients

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Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

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Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species organ donation

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Brain activity in speech production shown on a coloured functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRIf) scan

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The entire brain may be involved in language, not just a few regions

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Implant lets people type on virtual keyboards with just brain signals

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Implant lets people type on virtual keyboards with just brain signals

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Unravelling the secrets of the vagus nerve will revolutionise medicine

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Unravelling the secrets of the vagus nerve will revolutionise medicine

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Rats laugh at a pitch too high for humans to hear

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Rats have a 'laugh centre' in their brains that responds to tickling

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Deep-brain probe can read a rat's brain without surgical implants

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Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciousness to the test

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Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciousness to the test

A proposed way to measure consciousness called integrated information theory has been tested using data from human brain scans, and seems to work

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We now know how our brain works to overcome negative emotions

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How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from ageing to cancer

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We know now what happens in our brain to make us scared of heights

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Why you shouldn't believe claims that there are 7 types of ADHD

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