Emily – 24 & ready to die
[21:33] Economist Films: Emily is 24 years old and physically healthy. But she wants her doctors to end her life. [Video…
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Bruce Hood: Free Will and Decision Making
[10:10] What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among o…
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Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
[7:26] Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile …
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Michael Botticelli: Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
[10:44] Only one in nine people in the United States gets the care and treatment they need for addiction and substance ab…
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Mind Melds and Brain Beams: The Dawn of Brain-to-Brain Communication
[1:25:31] Music students download the technique of their favorite pianist or singer directly into their brains. Medi…
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Socioeconomic Disparities, Children and Brain Development
[57:59] Dr. Kimberly Noble, a neuroscientist and pediatrician at Teachers College, Columbia University, will discu…
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V.S. Ramachandran: What Neurology can tell us about Human Nature
[50:43] Lecture by Dr. Ramachandran at Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. [Video and text source: Hindustan Times…
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Consciousness and Intelligence Lecture
[1:23:13] MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines Moderator: Shimon Ullman PhD ’77, Samy and Ruth Cohn Pr…
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Out-of-body experience is no illusion
[3:46] Neuroscientists in Lausanne study the weird phenomenon to prove it’s not an illusion, or paranormal, bu…
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V.S. Ramachandran: The brain and religious belief
[19:49] A part of Beyond Belief event was in the 2006 talking Prof. V.S. Ramachandran is a neuroscientist known prim…
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