Face Time: How Quickly Do You Judge A Face?
[4:47] By looking at a face for less than a second, we can judge someone’s age, gender, race, emotional state and even t…
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Richard Davidson: Compassion & the Heart Brain Connection
[6:45] Richard Davidson overviews research on heart rate and brain activity changes in relation to the cultivation of …
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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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How Synapses Work
[2:56] Salk scientists computationally reconstructed brain tissue in the hippocampus to study the sizes of connecti…
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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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The brain dictionary
[3:19] Where exactly are the words in your head? Scientists have created an interactive map showing which brain areas r…
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The ultimate brain map
[2:01] A new map of the human brain could be the most accurate yet, as it combines all sorts of different kinds of data. Thi…
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A Glimpse At “Free Will” Activity In The Brain
[0:32] FOR THE FIRST TIME, RESEARCHERS WERE ABLE TO SEE BOTH WHAT HAPPENS IN A HUMAN BRAIN THE MOMENT A FREE CHOICE IS MADE…
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Revolutionary method to map the brain at single-neuron resolution
[2:50] Neuroscientists today publish in Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain at the resoluti…
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