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Did you miss Prof. Larry Swanson's #SWCSeminar or inaugural ‘Foundations in Neuroscience’ lecture at SWC? Catch-up now with our latest Q&A University of Southern California

Fantastic lab tour yesterday - thanks to all who attended and to The Social Mobility Foundation for organising! #TuesdayMotivation

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In the following interview, Dr Tuan Bui uOttawa outlines how his research could impact the treatment of motor dysfunction due to injury or neurodegeneration

Did you miss Prof. Frans de Waal's lecture at Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) #FENS18? Check out this Q&A on animal emotions and empathy

Many parts of the #brain are involved in prediction, so what makes the #cerebellum special? Prof. Javier Medina Baylor College of Medicine explains in our latest Q&A

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New computational-model designed by researchers at GCNU UCL based on data from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown reveals that serotonin, one of the most widespread chemicals in the brain, can speed up learning Champalimaud Foundation / Fundação Champalimaud Champalimaud Research Image credit: Champalimaud Research/Dario Sarra

A new paper published in Nature describes a mechanism by which the brain classifies the level of a threat and decides when to escape

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"We think that neurons compete for inclusion in a #memory trace, and those that are more excitable or active at the time of training win this competition" Prof. Sheena Josselyn, The Hospital for Sick Children Sickkids

SWC currently has space for up to two Sir Henry Dale Fellowships and we welcome applications from outstanding young scholars. Find out more

Did you miss the FitzFest #OrchestratingtheBrain workshop? Catch-up now with this short video http://ow.ly/ln1E30krnKP

Not one but two talks by Prof. Larry Swanson University of Southern California this week at SWC!

How do you define intelligent cognition? Professor John Duncan University of Cambridge shares his thoughts in a Q&A

Thanks again to everyone who came along to the 'Orchestrating the Brain' workshop at SWC last week and the very talented FitzFest musicians!

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