Elliot Krane: How do nerves work?
[4:49] At any moment, there is an electrical storm coursing through your body. Discover how chemical reactions create …
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Astrocytes Help the Brain to Remember
[2:54] A new discovery led by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute has discovered that astrocytes play an impor…
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Neuroscience: The future looks bright!
[3:41] For the first time in history, researchers at MIT have successfully recorded a 3-D movie of an entire neural netw…
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James Cantor: The Pedophile’s Brain
[5:25] Dr. James Cantor talks about what brain research is telling us about the minds of the most abhorred people in soci…
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How To Break A Bad Habit
[3:53] The reason it’s tough to start exercising, quit smoking or change your diet is not because you’re a …
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Stuart Firestein: From Nose to Brain – The Neurology of Smell
[3:40] What’s remarkable about the olfactory system is that from the outside world to the highest level of brain …
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The Human Connectome Project: Progress & Prospects (October 2014)
[1:05:38] Presentation by Dr David Van Essen to ICT for Life Sciences Forum, 16 October, 2014 [Video and text source: Co…
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Consciousness: Explored and Explained
[1:31:35] Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Be…
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Rodolfo Llinás: “Enter the ‘I of the Vortex'”
[1:12:44] Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Ne…
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Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
[9:03] How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you’re moving in the right direction? Neur…
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