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Diary of a teenage brain, part 2 - Unexplainable

Diary of a teenage brain, part 2 - Unexplainable

Update: 2025-12-10
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As our brains develop throughout our childhood and teens, they form connections and then prune back the ones that aren't used. What can we learn from them?



Guests: Alison Barth, professor in the life sciences at Carnegie Mellon University; Saket Navlakha, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory



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Diary of a teenage brain, part 2 - Unexplainable

Diary of a teenage brain, part 2 - Unexplainable