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Volume 33, Issue 4
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Features
Treating Alzheimer's Before It Takes Hold
Researchers are giving drugs to healthy people in hope of clearing away toxic proteins in the brain and preventing neurodegeneration.
Where Are Genitals Represented in the Brain?
The homunculus of textbook fame still does not take into account the relevant locations in the cerebral cortex that process touch for the sex organs
Brain-Reading Devices Help Paralyzed People Move, Talk and Touch
Implants are becoming more sophisticated—and are attracting commercial interest