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[1:31:35] Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Be…

[1:25:40] We spend a third of our lives asleep. Every organism on Earth—from rats to dolphins to fruit flies to microo…

[1:07:58] This Yates lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. As the …

[1:12:44] Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Ne…

[1:29:06] Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California delivers k…

[1:05:19] Rusty Gage describes the history of the discovery of adult neurogenesis, including his group’s role …

[33:29] Cognitive psychology and neuroscience have begun to dissect the neuronal mechanisms of literacy using brain…

[1:35:34] Ayahuasca has been used by Shamans and those they help for hundreds if not thousands of years. Found all over t…

[52:28] Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experie…

[37:45] Dr. Steve Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the preside…