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Sofia Quaglia
Oct 26, 20235 min read
How does our brain understand the passing of time?
Joe Paton, head of the Learning Lab at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, has been researching the neurological principles by which...


Sofia Quaglia
Sep 28, 20239 min read
How the brain memorizes mundane events
An interview with Zachariah Reagh, a brain scientist at Washington University. Do you remember what you did on this day six months ago?...


Sofia Quaglia
Aug 24, 20239 min read
Is there a link between personality and cognitive abilities?
This new meta-analysis gets to the bottom of the question. A new, exhaustive study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of...

Sofia Quaglia
Jun 27, 20236 min read
Racism damages black pregnant women’s mental health, Covid-19 made it even worse.
This scientist is figuring out how to avoid their children also suffering the consequences. A growing body of research suggests that...

Sofia Quaglia
May 24, 20237 min read
Scientists just figured out how to grow electrodes inside living organisms
A chat with scientists Roger Olsson and Magnus Berggren We might all remember, from our elementary school science class, how to make a...

Sofia Quaglia
Mar 22, 20235 min read
These four genes could be culpable for suicidal thoughts and feelings
An interview with genetic epidemiologist Dr. Ashley-Koch about which genes are correlated with suicidal behaviours and why learning about...

Sofia Quaglia
Mar 1, 20236 min read
An Interview with Neurovariability Expert Stephanie Forkel
A interview about the Science special issue on brain connectivity In the morgue. That’s where Stephanie Forkel, a researcher whose work...


Lea Schmid
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Behind the Science - A column introduction
Behind the Science with Sofia Quaglia. Sofia and I first met in October of 2022 via Zoom. She had interviewed Carmine, Inspire the Mind...
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