Synapse
Clayton ManselFor people curious about the brain and human nature
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From "Synapse" to "Overfitted"!
Hey Synapse readers!
I’ve launched a new newsletter called Overfitted, my attempt to cut through the noise in evidence-based medicine. We’ll dissect studies, challenge assumptions, and debate ideas—mostly in Neurology and Alzheimer’s, tho...
I was wrong about twin studies
In the past few weeks I’ve enjoyed digging into Kathryn Paige Harden’s The Genetic Lottery and, thanks to Kathryn’s eloquent and clear writing, realized that I misunderstood how ‘twin studies’ have been used to understand the role of geneti...
Our Genetic Lottery
It has been a couple of weeks since I was last in your inbox and this is because I’ve been struggling to grapple with my recent inquiry into behavioral genetics. Last month, I wrote a short introduction to behavior genetics in which I intro...
Some neuroscientists are confused
This summer, I wrote a series of stories about the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence which postulates that the neocortex is subdivided into hundreds of thousands of cortical columns which each build models of the world and work togethe...
How does your DNA determine who you become?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the control we have over who we become. I’ve recently made a more concerted effort to reflect on my own character, how it has changed over time, and how it interacts with other people. A big part of tha...
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