Frozen tissue slide preparation and processing

Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? How does a conspiracy theory affect the brain? This week Neuroscientist Shannon Odell breaks down what happens to the brain and why people don't just want to believe but believe.

Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion.

A detailed overview of a study conducted by Alysson Muotri's lab at the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program which found complex network signaling developing in human cortical organoids that appear to recapitulate fetal brain development, offering an in-vitro model to study functional development of human neuronal networks.