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[1:16] The brains of overweight people look “10 years older” than those of leaner peers, a study has found…

[5:18] Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actual…

[8:42] Not all love is the same, says psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz. When your brain experiences romantic love, as oppose…

[4:44] When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an in…

[2:28] Jean-Pierre Changeux discusses how general anesthetics hint at the chemical nature of consciousness. [Sourc…

[3:51] Dr. Rochelle Zak speaks on the characteristics of narcolepsy, and the disorder’s accidental discovery by sc…

[13:54] Daniel Siegel debunks myths about the Teenage Brain and “raging hormones”. He discusses the cha…

[3:50] Scientists took 473 genes and created a cell that survived and reproduced on its own! How do scientists combine g…

[4:37] Signaling across synapses–the tiny gaps between neurons, over a thousand times thinner than a sheet of p…

[1:55] A new study from MIT reveals how two populations of neurons in the brain contribute to the process of assigning em…