Mo Costandi

@mocost

Neuroscientist/ Freelance writer. Author of NEUROPLASTICITY (MIT Press 2016) & 50 HUMAN BRAIN IDEAS (Quercus 2013)

London
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Joined January 2009
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    Oct 13

    It's never too early to be a Junior Scientist! Join researchers at the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival today & tomorrow at for hands-on science, experiments & fun!

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    Oct 13

    How do glial cells orchestrate the formation and function of our central nervous system? Catch up with the latest research:

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    Oct 12

    ., author of THE SCIENCE OF SIN, spoke with about his new book. Full interview here:

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  4. Oct 13

    Guten tag from Stuttgart

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  5. Oct 12

    Wide-area all-optical neurophysiology in acute brain slices

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  6. Oct 12

    Two opposing forces in the brain cooperate to enhance memory formation "Our work adds a piece to the puzzle of how the brain... encode[s] information while still keeping a stable level of activity," says lead author |

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    Oct 11

    Human retina 📷 Dr. Nicolás Cuenca and Isabel Ortuño-Lizarán #20 in the 2018 competition. It is my favorite.

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  8. Oct 10

    New research suggests that people can recognise 5,000 faces on average

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    Oct 10

    On my new book Delusions in Context is out open access for everybody to read! Thanks and for participating in this exciting project, and for funding it!

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    Oct 10

    ## Job Alert!! ## We are looking for a new research assistant/lab manager to help with EEG studies of working memory and attention: Please get in touch if interested, and/or RT just to spread the word!!

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    Oct 10

    My new blog post at Debunking the magical power of the effect for chronic pain [yet again]

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  12. Oct 9

    John Hardy showed this 30-yr-old photo of the agarose gel from which he and his colleagues identified the first genetic mutation associated with Alzheimer's

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  13. Oct 9

    Goedert reiterates that Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative conditions involve stereotyped spread of pathology, and that blocking the spreading early enough could prevent these diseases or at least slow their progression

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  14. Oct 9

    I spoke to Hardy briefly for this recent feature:

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  15. Oct 9

    At the where Bart de Strooper, Michel Goedert, Christian Haas, and John Hardy are being awarded the 2018 Brain Prize for their work on Alzheimer's Disease

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    Last time I went to the US (2yrs ago), ESTA visa application cost something like $15. Today, it cost me $79

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    Oct 9

    A thoughtful analysis and critique of the 'extreme male brain' hypothesis of by Ros Ridley.

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    Oct 8

    cover of our latest issue: on

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    Oct 8

    Is your brain getting enough sleep? Almost certainly not according to our study of sleep and cognition in 40,000 people, out today and freely available here:

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  20. Oct 8

    The most detailed map of the mouse hippocampus yet, created by and his colleagues , "reveals new structures and functions"

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