Myth-busting.
Each of these takes a popular claim about the brain and checks it against the actual research.
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You use all of your brain.
It's one of the most popular myths about the brain. Here's why it's wrong, where it came from, and the stranger truth it was clumsily pointing at.
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Dopamine doesn't do what you think it does.
Dopamine isn't really the "pleasure chemical." It's something stranger and more interesting, and the popular misuse of the word has consequences.
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