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From: Scientific American <newsletters@scientificamerican.com>
Date: October 9, 2024 at 4:11:13 PM GMT-3
To: mhallak@fcq.unc.edu.ar
Subject: Mind & Brain: A new drug to treat chronic pain
Reply-To: newsletters@sciam.com
Mind & Brain for October 9 2024 | Mind & Brain | Scientific American
October 9 —This week, the wiring diagram for the fruit fly brain is now fully mapped, all 140,000 neurons. Also, what a linguistic analysis reveals about the presidential and vice presidential candidates, and a look at the plight of a climate change refugee. All that and more below!
--Gary Stix, Senior Editor, Mind and Brain
Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell
Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates
Research is revealing the key to motivating empathy—and making it stick
A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters
A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain.
A Stanford anesthesiologist deconstructs the component parts of what it means to undergo a psychedelic trip
Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease
