The benefits of a bilingual brain
[5:03] It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watchin…
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Richard Davidson: Compassion & the Heart Brain Connection
[6:45] Richard Davidson overviews research on heart rate and brain activity changes in relation to the cultivation of …
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Sequencing Ancient DNA
[8:42] UC Santa Cruz Scientists, Beth Shapiro and Ed Green use DNA sequencing to transcribe the history of ancient spec…
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How the choices you make can affect your genes
[5:02] Here’s a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA … so how can they turn out so different â…
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5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
[5:12] Yawns, hiccups, twitchy eyes (and more) explained! [Source: It’s Ok To Be Smart YouTube link]…
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Do you want to know about how you will die?
[4:18] Geneticist Robert C. Green talks with moderator John Hockenberry about the potential confusion that could com…
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Study Finds Only a Small Portion of Synapses May Be Active During Neurotransmission
[0:48] Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmit…
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Robert Sapolsky: The Strange Monkey Gland Phenomenon
[5:40] In this clip Professor Robert Sapolsky explains what the Strange Monkey Gland Phenomenon is and why it was impor…
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How Synapses Work
[2:56] Salk scientists computationally reconstructed brain tissue in the hippocampus to study the sizes of connecti…
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Neuroscience Minute: Your Hippocampus and Stem Cells
[1:01] Hippocampus, stem cells and mental health. [Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) YouTube link…
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