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AskScience AMA Series: I'm a neuroscientist turned science journalist who writes about the brain for The Washington Post. Got something on your mind? Ask me anything!
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Hello! I'm Richard Sima. After more than a decade of research, I transitioned from academia to journalism.

My work covering the life, health and environmental sciences has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, New Scientist and Eos. I worked as a fact-checker for Vox podcasts, including for the award-winning science podcast "Unexplainable." I was also a researcher for National Geographic's "Brain Games: On the Road" TV show and served as a communications specialist at the International Arts Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University's Brain Science Institute.

Have questions about mental health, how inflammation may cause depression, or why many of us are forgetting much of our memories of the pandemic? Or have other questions about the neuroscience of everyday life or human behavior? I'll be on at 4 p.m. ET (20 UT), ask me anything!

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I'm interested in the differences in animal and human brains. It seems to me that people wildly overestimate the differences, and many people don't believe animals can even have emotions or suffer. What are some interesting misconceptions in this area that you know off?

Why my head hurts if the brain does not have the capacity to feel pain

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