The second decade of the twenty-first century will be the decade of the brain.

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The explosion of brain research in the last decade or so is revealing two extraordinary things about our huge, powerful, and largely unconscious minds.

FORBES: Get To Know Both Your Brains

Doubling its staff of scientists and technicians to more than 350 people, the Seattle-based nonprofit group plans to build over the coming decade a series of "brain observatories, " computational tools to map neural behavior.

WSJ: Paul Allen Gives $300 Million to Brain Research

After a decade or more, it may even be possible to create a model of the human brain.

FORBES: IBM Aims To Simulate A Brain

Four different studies done in the past decade using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) all found a slight reduction in the size of four regions of the brain: the corpus callosum, the basal ganglia, the frontal lobes, and the cerebellar vermis.

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