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Ishee’s search for information on the brain eventually led her to create the Neuroscience Club – which has now partially inspired the university’s new neuroscience minor.

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A new study highlights how food insecurity may intensify the relationship between gut microbiome imbalances and cognitive impairment in adults.

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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Augustine Sedgewick about his new book, "Fatherhood," which illustrates as a collective portrait of emblematic fathers throughout history from Aristotle to ...