Study Finds Only a Small Portion of Synapses May Be Active During Neurotransmission
[0:48] Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmit…
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Bird Brain: Smarter Than You Think
[1:00] The first study to systematically measure the number of neurons in the brains of birds has found that they have si…
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Presenting the amazing crow!
[3:19] Dr Alex Taylor sets a difficult problem solving task, will the crow defeat the puzzle? [Source: BBC YouTube li…
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How brains see
[5:23] At the micro-scale the brain is a mess; a thick tangle of nerve cells connected at synapses. Mapping just a tiny po…
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Depression and its treatment
[6:45] COMPASSION!…. Anxiety and stress is usually caused by a human being worried about the response of others …
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Animals in Mirrors Hilarious Reactions
[2:32] There can be no better or worse sight than your own reflection, but these vain animals seemed very keen to admire t…
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The Speed of Life
[7:40] Why does time appear to speed up as we get older? Can we slow it down? Thanks to the National Geographic Channel for …
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: What Bonobos Can Teach Us
[5:23] At Great Ape Trust, TIME 100 honoree Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh studies the cognitive development of bonobos, per…
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Human brains compared to other animals
[1:34] An elephant’s brain is four times heavier than a human’s. But as a percentage of its body mass it ran…
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Do Dogs Really Miss Us?
[4:20] Vanessa Hill explores whether our dogs actually miss us when we are gone. [Source: BrainCraft YouTube link…
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