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[4:58] Dr. Eric Kandel describes the “aha phenomenon” and speculates on ways that humans and groups can t…

[2:19] It can be a bit confusing trying to differentiate between the different types of anxiety that are out there with e…

[2:37] Why are some people so lazy? Is there a couch-potato gene? [Source: AsapSCIENCE YouTube link]…

[10:54] Science has always been on a mission to extend the average life expectancy of humans. If you could live forever, …

Russell Foster, Debra Skene and Stafford Lightman discuss the science of sleep. Why do we need sleep and what are the phy…

[4:59] Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, compares dopamine levels in monk…

[3:41] For the first time in history, researchers at MIT have successfully recorded a 3-D movie of an entire neural netw…

[2:51] Dr. Greg Knopf discusses how the brain works with an interactive video. Learn how depression affects the brain a…

[5:06] Joshua Foer can remember anything, including the first 100 digits of Pi. The former U.S.A. Memory Champion expl…

[5:29] Dr Valerie Voon at Cambridge University send normal people and porn addicts into an MRI scanner to find out their …