Nazareth Castellanos, neuroscientist: ‘We need to teach anxiety prevention techniques from school onwards’
The researcher has dedicated the last 20 years to studying the impact of breathing on the brain
Liset Menéndez de la Prida, neuroscientist: ‘It’s not normal to constantly seek pleasure; it’s important to be bored, to be calm’
The researcher has published a new book that unpacks the inner workings of the ancestral neural GPS that allows us to locate ourselves in the here and now, recall memories, and imagine future worlds
The five ‘ages’ of the human brain: Crucial changes occur around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
A study identifies four key turning points in the development of neural connections throughout life, a finding that may help in understanding alterations in cognition and behavior
First map of the developing brain provides insight into origin of mental disorders
A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological development disorders like autism, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder is highest
Pedro Cuatrecasas, the scientist nobody has heard of who could have won two Nobel Prizes
The biochemist, who died at 88 in La Jolla, California, transformed the lives of millions after participating in the development of 40 new drugs, including the best-selling one in history
Robert Zatorre, neuroscientist: ‘Music touches every cognitive function there is’
The Montreal-based researcher, a pioneer in the neuroscience of music, claims the role of this discipline as a tool with therapeutic potential for communication and expression of emotions
Human pain, literally served on a plate
A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and trigger suffering
Jacob Hanna, biologist: ‘If a human fetus model is controversial, I will make it without a heart or brain’
The Palestinian scientist has managed to create living structures similar to two-week-old human embryos in his laboratory in Israel
New type of cell discovered in the human brain
These ‘glutamatergic astrocytes’ could play a role in understanding disorders such as Alzheimer’s, according to the scientists who have discovered them
Patient M: The man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in the head
A study returns to the case of a soldier injured during the Spanish Civil War who inspired doctor Justo Gonzalo’s theory of the human brain