A Brain That Can’t Hear Music
[6:34] Oliver Sacks discusses some bizarre cases from his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.…
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Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’
[5:00] Would you get a brain cell transplant? And just how many cells can you have replaced without becoming a whole new p…
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Boy with a genetic disease has had almost all his skin replaced
[0:48] Gene therapy has saved the life of a boy with a rare skin-peeling disease. The boy received grafts of sheets of gen…
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Mike Merzenich: How Do Human Brains Work?
[9:26] How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of hum…
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The Science of Stress: From Psychology to Physiology
[50:40] Stress is our natural reaction to physical or emotional pressure, encompassing everything from too much work …
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Molecular roots of language disorders
[2:25] See how computational scientist Emma Myers used the Allen Human Brain Atlas to explore the molecular roots of sp…
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Jocelyne Bloch: The brain may be able to repair itself – with help
[11:34] Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the bra…
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Why Do Placebos Work?
[6:07] Placebos are treatments that don’t actually do anything. They have no medical effect and no active medicine. …
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for depression and more
[1:52] As the number of people suffering from depression rises, doctors are looking for new, more targeted ways to trea…
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Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
[1:14:43] Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks joined award-winning journalist John Hockenberry to discuss Sacks’…
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