Lara Boyd: After watching this, your brain will not be the same
[14:24] In a classic research-based TEDx Talk, Dr. Lara Boyd describes how neuroplasticity gives you the power to shap…
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Study Finds Only a Small Portion of Synapses May Be Active During Neurotransmission
[0:48] Columbia University scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmit…
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How Synapses Work
[2:56] Salk scientists computationally reconstructed brain tissue in the hippocampus to study the sizes of connecti…
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How brains see
[5:23] At the micro-scale the brain is a mess; a thick tangle of nerve cells connected at synapses. Mapping just a tiny po…
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A Glimpse At “Free Will” Activity In The Brain
[0:32] FOR THE FIRST TIME, RESEARCHERS WERE ABLE TO SEE BOTH WHAT HAPPENS IN A HUMAN BRAIN THE MOMENT A FREE CHOICE IS MADE…
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5 Scary Things You Didn’t Know About Your Brain
[5:57] 5 things you didn’t know about your brain from neurocannibalism to fear and sexual attraction. [Source:…
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Revolutionary method to map the brain at single-neuron resolution
[2:50] Neuroscientists today publish in Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain at the resoluti…
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Revealed: The brain’s sewage system
[0:28] This is our closest look yet at the way the brain cleans itself while we sleep [Source: New Scientist YouTube li…
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Memory: Long Term Potentiation
[8:00] Long-term potentiation is thought to be the molecular event that contributes to learning. Through synaptic pl…
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IBM Research breakthrough in neuromorphic computing
[3:19] Building artificial intelligence that faithfully mimics the human brain has been an alluring dream of scienti…
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