Carl Zimmer/National Geographic: Secrets of the Brain

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Secrets of the Brain
New technologies are shedding light on biology’s greatest unsolved mystery: how the brain really works.
By Carl Zimmer
February 2014
National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/brain/zimmer-text

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Secrets of the Brain - Video: A Voyage Into the Brain
February 2014
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/brain/voyage-video

Thought, feeling, sense, action—all derive from unimaginably complex interactions among billions of nerve cells. A section of mouse brain no larger than a grain of salt serves as a window into this hidden world.