The Devastating Effects of Child Abuse
[27:28] This is the shocking story of a young child called Beth who’s mind was shattered by sexual abuse. This fil…
MOREMind Over Masters: The Question of Free Will
[1:23:38] Do we make conscious decisions? Or are all of our actions predetermined? And if we don’t have free will…
MORESusumu Tonegawa: Controlling the brain with light to reactivate lost memories
[5:13] We can now use optogenetics to manipulate memories in a mouse’s brain – implanting a false memory, or curing …
MORENora Volkow: The Unyielding Power of Dopamine
[6:36] Drug addiction researcher Nora Volkow walks us through the singular chemical that drives substance abuse. [So…
MORESteven Pinker: A.I. Apocalypse: More Myth Than Reality
[2:27] Steven Pinker believes there’s some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopoca…
MOREThe Neurobiology of Evil
[5:28] Thanks to MRI and fMRI brain scans, we now know much more about how damage to or deficiencies in certain parts of th…
MOREBeing overweight ages people’s brains
[1:16] The brains of overweight people look “10 years older” than those of leaner peers, a study has found…
MOREHow optical illusions trick your brain
[5:18] Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actual…
MOREThe Origins of Narcolepsy
[3:51] Dr. Rochelle Zak speaks on the characteristics of narcolepsy, and the disorder’s accidental discovery by sc…
MORESpying on Synapses – Early concept brain research
[4:37] Signaling across synapses–the tiny gaps between neurons, over a thousand times thinner than a sheet of p…
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