In this edition, we’ll discuss why the street drug ecstasy deserves research as a potential therapeutic, with Robert Malenka, <a href="http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(16)30853-4">Cell</a> (00:00); how fiction might be good for you, with Keith Oatley, <a href="http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(16)30070-5">Trends in Cognitive Sciences</a> (8:35); and why we get breast or colon cancer, but not heart cancer, with Frédéric Thomas, <a href="http://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(16)30079-6">Trends in Cancer</a> (18:30).

In this edition, we’ll discuss why the street drug ecstasy deserves research as a potential therapeutic, with Robert Malenka, Cell (00:00); how fiction might be good for you, with Keith Oatley, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (8:35); and why we get breast or colon cancer, but not heart cancer, with Frédéric Thomas, Trends in Cancer (18:30).

In this edition, we’ll discuss why the street drug ecstasy deserves research as a potential therapeutic, with Robert Malenka, <a href="http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(16)30853-4" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cell</a>&nbsp;(00:00); how fiction might be good for you, with Keith Oatley, <a href="http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(16)30070-5" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trends in Cognitive Sciences</a>&nbsp;(8:35); and why we get breast or colon cancer, but not heart cancer, with Frédéric Thomas, <a href="http://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(16)30079-6" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trends in Cancer</a>&nbsp;(18:30).

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