The Man Slicing Up Brains for Parkinson’s Research
[3:24] IN A small laboratory in London are hundreds of human brains, labelled and ready for dissection – all in th…
MORECartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome
[1:33:48] Imagine navigating the globe with a map that only sketched out the continents. That’s pretty much how neur…
MOREHow Brain Waves Can Control Physical Objects
[4:11] While mind control seems like it belongs in the realm of sci-fi and fantasy, technology might just make it a reali…
MOREUsing Neurobiology to Overcome Genetic and Environmental Adversity
[20:34] MIT’s Mark Bear presents a fascinating account of how understanding neural plasticity, or the ability …
MOREMarc Lewis: The Neuroscience of Addiction
[1:00:47] In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this rivetin…
MOREHow does stress affect a teenager’s brain?
[2:26] Ever wonder what is going on in the brain of a teenager, especially one who is stressed out? UCLA Psychologist Adr…
MORERobert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
[15:51] How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we d…
MOREVisual Pathways
[11:21] How do images get from the world, through the eye, into our understanding? Dr Claudia Krebs traces the topsy tur…
MOREJeffrey Friedman: The Biologic Basis of Obesity
[59:31] Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Ro…
MORESubcortical Fiber Tracts
[9:00] Dr. Claudia Krebs demonstrates neuroanatomical structures responsible for the creation & understandin…
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