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As someone who has managed his own migraines for years, Stanford headache expert Robert Cowan offers advice to those who experience chronic headaches.

Rick Huganir, Professor and Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, speaks about his lifelong interest in learning and memory.

Humans are social creatures. We form close family structures, we surround ourselves with friends, and we learn from each other. In fact, a supportive social environment can have very positive effects on our individual behavior and health.

Episodic memory, or memory for autobiographical experiences, has the remarkable feature that each remembered experience happened exactly once, and yet exists in memory for decades. How does the brain capture fleeting experiences and transform them into patterns of neural activity that are stable...