James Fallon: Inside the Brain of a Real Psychopath
[4:25] Brain scans of serial killers vs. normal brains have been studied by Dr. James Fallon, and he offers his assessme…
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Is A Brain Dead Person Actually Dead?
[3:26] There are many conditions that can affect consciousness, but none as devastating as brain death. What happens t…
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Anthony Wagner: Brain Patterns and the Mind
[12:55] How do we represent places? How do we remember people we’ve met before? Recent advances in functional br…
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Aniruddh Patel: Music’s Effects on the Brain
[2:56] The way you perceive and understand a movie is influenced by the soundtrack playing (or in some cases, not playin…
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Ed Boyden: Seeing very small things
[14:38] Neuroscientist Ed Boyden says that there is a moral imperative to demystify the brain in order to address disea…
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Kerry Ressler: The neuroscience of emotion
[19:17] Fear is a powerful, yet primitive, emotion that is also the root of much violence, war and suffering. Understan…
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Does Exercise Enhance Creativity?
[3:21] Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki is hard at work in her lab experimenting with a new hypothesis: Can you stimulate cr…
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Is Telepathy Real?
[4:56] Greg Foot and Hannah Fry delve into the mind this week, in answering whether or not telepathy is real? [Source: Br…
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Architects of the Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain
[1:28:47] Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some …
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Inside the brain of someone suffering with depression
[2:42] Stephen Nolan went to the University of Manchester to meet Prof Ian Anderson who is carrying out a study on people …
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