Destiny the horizon we inhabit
Destiny is the horizon we inhabit. It is given and chosen, bounded and open, solitary and shared, revealed and concealed. It is not a fact we discover and then possess. It is a way we keep walking, a mystery we inhabit, a call we answer—or refuse—in the…
Dopamine’s role in fear extinction is more precise than we thought
A mouse study published in PNAS and reported by MIT’s Picower Institute shows how one dopamine pathway helps the brain learn that a once-dangerous place is now safe. The finding is causal, not just correlational, but it should not be mistaken for a…