When David Luke committed to studying psychedelics and parapsychology, it felt like double career suicide. Today, elite ...

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We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

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