Behind the Paper
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Outdoor air pollution changes maturation patterns of the brain's white matter in sex-specific ways
Outdoor air pollution, a ubiquitous neurotoxicant, is shown to change white matter maturation patterns in differential ways depending on sex in a large sample of US-based youths, in the first longitudinal study of its kind.
Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain, sometimes
How does a psychedelic scientist give a dose of psilocybin for the first time? What if they never completed an apprenticeship in psychedelic psychotherapy? What if they barely know the difference between ‘bodywork’ and ‘Bath and Body Works’?
RECORD: A novel behavioral task battery to study complex decision-making in rodents
The complexity of behavioral decision making and the influence of various factors, such as stress and environment, make it difficult to draw parallels between rodent decision-making and other species without the development of novel task batteries. Described here as RECORD.
