What percentage of your brain do you use?
[5:15] Two thirds of the population believes a myth that has been propagated for over a century: that we use only 10% of ou…
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Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
[20:11] Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she rea…
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Intelligence Squared Debates: Death Is Not Final
[1:43:05] If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-deat…
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Dissecting Brains
[7:06] On Wednesdays at Hammersmith Hospital in London, a few recently preserved human brains are dissected accordin…
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What Can You Do Without a Brain?
[7:55] What can we do without a brain? [Source: Vsauce YouTube link]…
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Ralph Adolphs: The Social Brain
[15:16] Ralph Adolphs obtained his Ph.D. at Caltech in 1993, subsequently conducted postdoctoral work with Antonio D…
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Alpha Waves and the Future of Brain Monitoring
[3:49] Cognitive neuroscientist Kyle Mathewson explains the role alpha waves play in our brains and discusses how por…
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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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The Science Of Witness Identification
[3:51] What can neuroscience tell us about the reliability (or unreliability) of eyewitness testimony in police line…
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Eric Kandel: Unconscious Decision Making
[4:30] Nobel-Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel describes new research which hints at the possibility of a …
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