My Neurons, My Self
[1:39:50] With ever more refined techniques for measuring complex brain activity, scientists are challenging the un…
MORESleep spindles stimulation to enhance memory
[2:37] Flavio Frohlich, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, cell biology & physiology, and biomedical engi…
MOREEric Kandel: How Reductionism Uncovered Secrets of Long-term and Short-term Memory
[6:51] A powerful scientific method of observation has helped scientists understand the brain. That method closely p…
MOREHow Your Brain Simplifies Complex Reality
[3:41] The world around us is a mess, yet we’re able to understand it. How do our brains make sense of it all, and how …
MOREAddiction: Learning to forget
[13:18] Addiction treatments suffer from high relapse rates, but now cutting edge work in neuroscience hopes to comba…
MOREGarbage Smells Green and Gunshots Are Rainbows
[6:53] Knowing Neurons interviews people with synesthesia. [Video source: Knowing Neurons YouTube link]…
MOREAntonio Damasio: How Our Brains Build Our Autobiographies
[5:41] While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these …
MOREDementia: Catching the memory thief
[21:43] Today is World Alzheimer’s Day, and over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was di…
MOREWhat happens when you remove the hippocampus?
[5:25] When Henry Molaison (now widely known as H.M.) cracked his skull in an accident, he began blacking out and having …
MORESusan Polgar: “My Brilliant Brain”
[47:07] Laslo Polgar an educational psychologist, set out on a mission to create a genius. His first experiment, with d…
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