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Emotional Intelligence and Neuroscience
New ReviewNeuroscience is the study of our nervous system, with the primary focus being the brain. And it is a multidisciplinary subject. There is a close relationship between the studies of Neuroscience and Emotional intelligence. Get our...
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Neuroscience and Self-Incrimination
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes how she uses neuroscience as a lens to better examine the original purpose of a law.
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Neuroscience and Criminality
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke University) describes how neuroscience is involved in the legal process.
Neuro Transmissions
Neuroscience of Anxiety
Alie knows all about how stressful grad school can be. But what happens when stress is more than just stress? This week, we're talking about the neuroscience of anxiety. And for Alie, it's personal.
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What Social Isolation Does To Your Brain – How To Undo The Damage
Did you know that social isolation can actually cause your brain to shrink? Watch this video to learn more about the effects of social isolation and what you can do to undo the changes. References Stern Y. Cognitive reserve in ageing and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leslie Zebrowitz - Teachers Make a Difference - Charles A. Kiesler
Leslie Zebrowitz (PhD, Yale University) is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University. Trained as a social psychologist, she has recently received advanced training in social...
The Royal Institution
Q&A: The Neuroscience of the Teenage Brain - with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Is technology changing how teenage brains develop and operate? Are there significant differences between male and female brains? Sarah Jane Blakemore answers audience questions following her talk. Watch the talk:...
The Royal Institution
The Neuroscience of the Teenage Brain - with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
How and why are teenage brains different from child and adult brains? And how do adolescent experiences make us the adults we become? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Drawing upon her cutting-edge research,...
World Science Festival
Neuroscience and the Roots of Human Connections: The Social Synapse
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Humans work together on enormous scales to build complex tools as large as cities and create social networks that span the globe. What is the key to our success? This program examines the development of the human...
World Science Festival
The Believing Brain: Evolution, Neuroscience, and the Spiritual Instinct
God, they say, is in the details. But could God also be in our frontal lobes? Every culture from the dawn of humankind has imagined planes of existence beyond the reach of our senses, spiritual domains that shape our Earthly experiences....
World Science Festival
The Craving Brain: Neuroscience of Uncontrollable Urges
When we try to get rid of a bad habit, whether it involves food or drugs or gambling, it often seems like we're fighting ourselves inside. The reality's not far off: Addiction twists the reward pathways of the brain to keep addicts tied...
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Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes a modern criminal defense that relies upon neuroscientific evidence.
TED-Ed
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...
TED Talks
George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
To get out of the mess we're in, we need a new story that explains the present and guides the future, says author George Monbiot. Drawing on findings from psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, he offers a new vision for...
TED Talks
TED: How isolation fuels opioid addiction | Rachel Wurzman
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. What do Tourette syndrome, heroin addiction and social media obsession all have in common? They converge in an area...
TED Talks
Ami Klin: A new way to diagnose autism
Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder can improve the lives of everyone affected, but the complex network of causes make it incredibly difficult to predict. At TEDxPeachtree, Ami Klin describes a new early detection method that...
TED Talks
Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger's
Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas -- she's done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke (you'll see). She has Asperger's, a form of autistic spectrum disorder that can...
TED Talks
Vilayanur Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leslie Zebrowitz - Reading Faces
Leslie Zebrowitz (PhD, Yale University) is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University. Trained as a social psychologist, she has recently received advanced training in social...
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Speaking with Space
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) discusses the growing research overlap of sign language linguistics with modern neuroscience.
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Neuropossibilities
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany gives her perspective on how advances in neuroscience and medical technology might lead to a safer and more ethical society.
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Neuroimpulsivity?
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany describes how modern neuroscience is affecting our legal understanding of what it means to act in a premeditated fashion, and of what it means to be responsible for our actions.
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Pandemic Perspectives: The Nature of Research
SCIENCE, ONGOING: Professor Barwich talks about how the pandemic has highlighted the need to teach people science as a process as well as the actual concepts of science to increase democratic participation and how the pandemic showed the...
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Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke) describes an unexpected area where neuroscience is having an impact in legal proceedings.