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TED-Ed: How friendship affects your brain | Shannon Odell
If it seems like friendships formed in adolescence are particularly special, that's because they are. Childhood, adolescent, and adult friendships all manifest differently in part because the brain works in different ways at those stages...
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How Our Brains Learn Consciousness
Neuroscience is abound with debates over the nature of consciousness. Which makes sense, because it’s a very abstract idea. We know we are conscious, but theories of why, how and what brain activity causes it are still simply that:...
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El punto ciego de la neurociencia
El punto ciego de la neurociencia Los neurocientíficos se enfrentan a una paradoja al tratar de comprender el cerebro: el sujeto de estudio y el investigador comparten características, es decir la mente estudia a la mente. Àlex Gómez...
TED Talks
Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?
What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? Philosopher Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.
TED Talks
Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see
Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual...
TED Talks
TED: How to hack your brain when you're in pain | Amy Baxter
Have we misunderstood pain? Researcher and physician Amy Baxter unravels the symphony of connections that send pain from your body to your brain, explaining practical neuroscience hacks to quickly block those signals. Her groundbreaking...
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When Is Now?
When is now? Seems like a pretty simple question… just look at your watch. But do you and I share the same “now”? Let’s journey from Einstein’s thought experiments about relativity to cutting edge neuroscience research to try and answer...
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The Strange Science of Why We Dream
It would be a lot easier to study the science of dreaming if we weren’t asleep every time we did it. Why do we dream? What does dreaming do for our brains? How did dreaming evolve? Here’s a look at the current theories from psychology...
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The Neuroscience of Love
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. So before you fall in love, why not learn some of the science behind it? If you believe in love at first sight, are in a committed relationship, or wonder how loving a friend is different from...
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Neuroscience of Depression
About 1 out of every 14 people suffers from depression. What causes depression in the brain? Is depression inherited? And importantly, does depression medication work? In this video, we discuss the cause of depression, the changes in the...
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Neuroscience of Bats
You're as blind as a bat! Well, that's not so bad, it turns out. Why? Because bats use this amazing talent they have, called 'echolocation'. It's sort of like a natural sonar. To help us explain this strange phenomenon, we have Margot...
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Neuroscience of ADHD
ADHD might seem like a convenient excuse to be able to medicate your overactive child. But it turns out that ADHD is a real diagnosis with a different combination of symptoms for each person. There are still a lot of questions...
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The Neuroscience of Pokemon GO
SCIENCE, I CHOOSE YOU!! Pok_mon GO has surprised a lot of people by becoming the most downloaded mobile game ever created. Today, you can't go to a park or popular destination without seeing at least a handful of trainers. But why is...
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The Neuroscience of Tourette Syndrome
Oh sh**, time to find out more about Tourette Syndrome! It's often portrayed in media with lots of swearing, but that's not the whole picture. Today, we're gonna find out a little more about what goes on in the brain. We have In_s Dawson...
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A (Brief) History of Brain Sciences
Neuroscience and psychology have a lot in common. But where does one begin and the other end? What are the differences? And how did we end up with these two different-yet-overlapping fields? It turns out that the history of brain science...
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How Do We Taste?
You know how babies put everything in their mouth? Theyêre actually exploring with taste! Thanks to our gustatory system, we can detect millions of distinct tastes through combinations of our different taste receptors, kind of like how...
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Work Alone - A "Work From Home" Parody
We hope you enjoy this totally-accurate-not-at-all-made-up glimpse into what it's like to be a neuroscience graduate student. Seriously though, this was a lot of fun to create!
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How Do We Hear?
Say whaaaaaat? Yep, it's about time we talk about the auditory system. Your ears are amazing things. Sure, they're a bit floppy, but they help us navigate the word around us just as much as our eyes. In the words of a wise man: To hear...
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How Do We Smell?
What is that smell? It smells like an old factory. Oh wait, nope, itês just your olfactory system. We canêt neglect one of our more scent-sitive senses. Our sense of smell not only gives us the ability to distinguish different odors, it...
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Where Are Memories Stored?
How does my brain store memories again?? Great question! There are a lot of questions about how memories are stored and where they go. But when we have a test coming up, it might be useful to learn how to remember what you studied! So...
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Neuroscientist explains why bad habits are hard to break
New Year’s Resolutions are notoriously difficult to stick to. Of the people that make resolutions, less than a quarter of them are still going strong a month later. Why are old habits so hard to break? It may seem like you have all the...
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Neuro Transmissions Bloopers
Sometimes neuroscience terms can be hard to say. With the New Year just starting off, we thought it would be fun to kick off 2017 with Alie messing up her lines and other hijinks! It's also a kind of recap of all of the episodes we've...
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My PhD Dissertation Journey
I did it! PhDone! PhinisheD! I'm a doctor! I have finally completed my Doctorate in Neuroscience. Graduate school over these last six years has been a wonderful, frustrating, gratifying, arduous experience. A few short months ago, I...
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The Sociology of Cognitive Science
Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) gives her view on how psychology has evolved due to the influence of modern neuroscience.
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