Your brain has an autopilot mode
[0:54] Ever realized you’ve driven yourself home but haven’t really been paying attention? Brain scans have show…
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Scientists Are Giving People Psychedelics to Understand Consciousness
[3:41] Some people claim they reach a higher state of consciousness when they take psychedelics, but is this really wha…
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Ken Mogi: How are Brains Conscious?
[5:51] Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that …
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Jeremy Nathans: The Hering Optical Illusion
[4:07] The Hering optical illusion explained. [Video and text source: iBioEducation YouTube channel]…
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How Long Can You Survive Being Decapitated?
[4:02] If you get your head cut off, you most likely will not survive. How long can you last until your body finally shuts d…
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Repetitive movement linked to rhythmically firing neuron circuits
[3:10] Neuroscientists at the Salk Institute used stem cells to generate diverse networks of self-contained spinal c…
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Joy Hirsch: What does fear look like in the brain?
[3:40] In honor of Halloween, we asked neurobiologist Joy Hirsch what fear looks like inside our brains. [Video and tex…
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Lucy Crehan: Surprising Truths from Global Classrooms
[6:33] Lucy Crehan, teacher and education consultant, set off on a personal educational odyssey through Finland, Jap…
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V.S. Ramachandran: Consciousness, Qualia, and Self
[8:15] Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at UCSD, discusses consciousness, quali…
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Migraine Brain in University of Michigan 3-D Lab
[2:03] Using PET scans of the brain, University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at d…
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