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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

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Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Fruit Fly’s Neurons in Exquisite Detail Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell

Sara Reardon; Nature magazine

Debate Linguistics Reveals the Politics at Play in the 2024 Election Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by candidates in the recent presidential and vice presidential debates

Kelso Harper

Being Empathetic Is Easier when Everyone’s Doing It Research is revealing the key to motivating empathy—and making it stick

Elizabeth Svoboda

I Wasn’t Prepared to Be a Climate Refugee A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

Melissa Hanson, expert writer

Understanding Suzetrigine, a New Drug That Treats Pain at the Periphery A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain.

Rachel Feltman; Marla Broadfoot; Fonda Mwangi

Is a Drug Even Needed to Induce a Psychedelic Experience? A Stanford anesthesiologist deconstructs the component parts of what it means to undergo a psychedelic trip

Gary Stix WHAT WE'RE READING Can we truly detect lies? The latest discoveries in deception research. | NPR The first detailed map of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy. | Science Alert The human brain region that evolved quickest is also the most susceptible to aging. | New York Times FROM THE ARCHIVE

Acting Out Dreams Predicts Parkinson’s and Other Brain Diseases Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease

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