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[3:58] The brain constitutes only about 2 percent of the human body, yet it is responsible for all of the body’s fu…

[3:24] IN A small laboratory in London are hundreds of human brains, labelled and ready for dissection – all in th…

[1:33:48] Imagine navigating the globe with a map that only sketched out the continents. That’s pretty much how neur…

[4:11] While mind control seems like it belongs in the realm of sci-fi and fantasy, technology might just make it a reali…

[20:34] MIT’s Mark Bear presents a fascinating account of how understanding neural plasticity, or the ability …

[1:00:47] In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this rivetin…

[2:26] Ever wonder what is going on in the brain of a teenager, especially one who is stressed out? UCLA Psychologist Adr…

[15:51] How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we d…

[11:21] How do images get from the world, through the eye, into our understanding? Dr Claudia Krebs traces the topsy tur…

[59:31] Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Ro…