Sound Waves as Effective as Brain Surgery at Treating Essential Tremor
[2:15] Scalpel-free surgery using focused sound waves appears to be as effective in treating essential tremor as trad…
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Wegstock lectures 6: Kurt Gray – Persistent vegetative state (PVS) research
[13:35] [Video source: Joe Paxton You Tube channel]…
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Lessons of the brain: the Phineas Gage case
[1:55] The story of Phineas Gage illustrates some of the first medical knowledge gained on the relationship between pe…
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Consciousness: Explored and Explained
[1:31:35] Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Be…
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Antonio Damasio: When Emotions Make Better Decisions
[3:22] Antonio Damasio, noted researcher and professor of neuroscience at USC, explains how emotions are integral to …
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Olaf Blanke: Out-of body experiences, consciousness, and cognitive neuroprosthetics
[18:54] What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neuro…
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