Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’
[5:00] Would you get a brain cell transplant? And just how many cells can you have replaced without becoming a whole new p…
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Human-Specific Genes and Neocortex Expansion in Development and Evolution
[20:37] The search for human-specific genome changes underlying the unique neocortex expansion found only in the hum…
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Neurons’ Faulty Wiring Leads to Serotonin Imbalance, Depression-Like Behavior in Mice
[1:37] Twin papers lend clues into how the brain organizes itself, offering new avenues for studying psychiatric diso…
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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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Robert Sapolsky: Being Human
[36:59] What makes us human? World renowned neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky explores one of the most fundamental ques…
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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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GABA controls synapse formation in the developing brain.
[3:05] GABA controls synapse formation in the developing brain. [Video and text source: Max Planck Florida Institute…
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Sam Rodriques: What we’ll learn about the brain in the next century
[13:31] In this imaginative talk, neuroengineer Sam Rodriques takes us on a thrilling tour of the next 100 years in neur…
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Mice made to kill using mind control lasers
[0:55] Mice were genetically engineered so neurons in the amygdala that control hunting and killing were activated by …
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Synaptic plasticity – How synapses spark
[8:00] Learning takes place on a synaptic level. Whenever we learn something new, changes in the signal transfer funct…
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