Brain’s face recognition area grows much bigger as we get older
[0:51] Unlike the rest of the brain, the fusiform gyrus keeps expanding in adulthood. Read more: http://ow.ly/ljcF30…
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The Nature of Memory
[6:40] The weird and wonderful way memory works. [Source: BrainCraft You Tube channel]…
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George Koob: Neurocircuitry of Addiction – An Alcohol Perspective
[59:11] George Koob, PhD Director, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH [Video and text source: Vi…
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Stephanie Jones: Executive Function and Self-Regulation in Context: The Role of Stress and Poverty
[1:28:04] This presentation provides an overview of executive function and self-regulation with particular emphas…
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My Neurons, My Self
[1:39:50] With ever more refined techniques for measuring complex brain activity, scientists are challenging the un…
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Sleep spindles stimulation to enhance memory
[2:37] Flavio Frohlich, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, cell biology & physiology, and biomedical engi…
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Can We Change The Past?
[3:41] “The past is never where you think you left it.” – Katherine Anne Porter Join Jason Silva as h…
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Eric Kandel: How Reductionism Uncovered Secrets of Long-term and Short-term Memory
[6:51] A powerful scientific method of observation has helped scientists understand the brain. That method closely p…
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Dementia: Catching the memory thief
[21:43] Today is World Alzheimer’s Day, and over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer’s disease was di…
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What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
[5:25] When Henry Molaison (now widely known as H.M.) cracked his skull in an accident, he began blacking out and having …
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