Amygdala’s Role in Memory
[3:19] In this video Dr. Erin Bigler and I are talking about the amygdala. The amygdala is again another one of those stru…
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A.M. Barrett: A Vision of Brain Injury Rehabilitation
[13:07] Dr. Barrett discusses how we move through the world. Her Talk identifies new methods for brain injury rehabili…
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The Bystander Effect Social Experiment
[3:35] BYSTANDER EFFECT…. and other memes we don’t control, with religion being only one of many……
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Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication
[4:50] Bazelot et al. dissect synaptic mechanisms orchestrating the information flow from the ventral hippocampus t…
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Cortical Memories in Humans Are Re-expressed When GABA Is Reduced
[5:07] Barron et al. show that otherwise silent cortical memories are unmasked in the human brain when the concentrati…
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Motivation and Dopamine Release from Disinhibition in the VTA
[6:04] The lateral hypothalamus (LH) sends an inhibitory projection to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) that modulat…
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How Dogs Interpret Our Praise
[0:59] “Who’s a good boy?” Your dog construes your words and happy tone to know you mean him. [Video source: Scien…
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Visual Stimuli that Cause Mice to Freeze or Flee
[5:08] Mice are an increasingly popular animal model for understanding vision in health and disease, but we know littl…
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Do humans truly have Free Will?
[8:50] While filming for the PBS special, “Brains on Trial with Alan Alda,” Alan visited Dr. Thalia Wheat…
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V.S. Ramachandran: How Our Brain Creates Delusion Of God
[22:48] This gentleman, due to the damage to his temporal lobes, was suffering from seizures. However, after his seizu…
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