Patricia Churchland: Neurophilosophy and free will
[16:01] Philosopher Patricia Smith Churchland on the nature of self-control, the reward system, and risk-taking in h…
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Alison Gopnik: Free Will and Decision Making
[9:39] What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among op…
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Why We Are All Addicts
[4:13] We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using some…
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What Is The Most Dangerous Drug In The World?
[4:17] From drug overdose to the war on drugs, what’s most deadly? [Video and text source: AsapSCIENCE YouTube c…
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10 Terrifying New Drugs That Could End You
[10:17] There’s drugs on the streets that can rot your flesh, destroy your vital organs and even, turn you into a z…
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Marc Lewis: The Neuroscience of Addiction
[1:00:47] In recent decades doctors have branded addiction a brain disease, and treated it as such. But in this rivetin…
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Overview of the Brainstem
[14:59] Dr. Claudia Krebs walks us through an overview of the brainstem. [Video and text source: UBC Medicine – E…
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Man Addicted To Eating Bricks, Mud and Gravel
[2:09] An Indian man says he is addicted to eating bricks, gravel and mud. Pakkirappa Hunagundi, 30, first developed a t…
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Markus Heilig: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
[17:13] The talk presents how a new science of addiction is emerging, and opening up for new methods for effective treat…
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Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA.
[16:35] Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in res…
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