June 2011
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Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? | NYTimes →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Twins joined at the head — the medical term is craniopagus — are one in 2.5 million, of which only a fraction survive. The way the girls’ brains formed beneath the surface of their fused skulls, however, makes them beyond rare: their neural anatomy is unique, at least in the annals of recorded scientific literature. Their brain images reveal what looks like an attenuated...
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MIKE HAMILTON RESIGNS: A FEELINGS COLLAGE →
amazing. some of the best comments i’ve seen in a while.
'Time' not necessarily deeply rooted in our brains →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Hidden away in the Amazonian rainforest a small tribe have successfully managed what so many dream of being able to do – to ignore the pressures of time so successfully that they don’t even have a word for it.
It is the first time scientists have been able to prove ‘time’ is not a deeply entrenched human universal concept as previously thought.
Researchers, led by...
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