Barbara Sahakian: Brain Training
[12:46] Professor Barbara Sahakian discusses the effects of Brain training on memory and mental health. [Video and te…
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Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?
[3:08] It’s almost impossible to trick your brain so you can tickle yourself. Unless you’re schizophrenic 
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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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Schizophrenia Simulator: When Chemistry Upends Sanity’s Balance
[1:42] It’s called mental imbalance for a reason. Sanity hangs, in part, in the gentle balance of chemicals strung to…
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Hearing Voices and Paranoid Delusions: Inside a Schizophrenic Brain
[4:36] Hearing Voices and Paranoid Delusions: Inside a Schizophrenic Brain. Now and then we all think we heard someone …
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The trans-synaptic nanocolumn
[1:36] This video portrays our new model of the molecular architecture at points of neuron-to-neuron contact in the br…
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Epistemology: Paradoxes of Perception #2 (Argument from Hallucination)
[7:21] Common sense takes for granted that we can typically just see physical objects without further hindrance. In th…
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Teenage brain upgrades revealed
[0:44] Editing, pruning, and strengthening of neuron connections in adolescent brains makes for sleeker performanc…
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The Science Of Hallucinations
[3:18] Your brain is an incredible specimen, but what happens when things go wrong? Why do some people hallucinate? [So…
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Heather Berlin: The Link Between Genius and Disorder
[6:48] As part of Big Think’s partnership with 92Y’s Seven Days of Genius series, New York Times columnis…
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