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4:48
Nicole Avena
How sugar affects the brain
11:48
Alex Wissner-Gross
A new equation for intelligence
4:14
Claudia Aguirre
Why is yawning contagious?
3:53
Mikael Cho
The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)
4:44
Brad Troeger
What is love?
3:40
Michael Molina
What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?
4:23
Peter Mende-Siedlecki
Should you trust your first impression?
4:34
Ami Angelowicz
The terrors of sleep paralysis
5:16
Tim Hansen
How to read music
4:19
Kelli Sandman-Hurley
What is dyslexia?
15:57
Siddharthan Chandran
Can the damaged brain repair itself?
21:46
Russell Foster
Why do we sleep?
14:23
Grégoire Courtine
The paralyzed rat that walked
13:31
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
What is so special about the human brain?
17:36
Elizabeth Loftus
How reliable is your memory?
3:41
Richard E. Cytowic
What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia
9:29
Peter Doolittle
How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
10:52
Salvatore Iaconesi
What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
14:59
John Searle
Our shared condition -- consciousness
7:16
Mark Changizi
Why do we see illusions?
10:26
Mary Lou Jepsen
Could future devices read images from our brains?
14:35
Dan Reisel
The neuroscience of restorative justice
14:38
Denise Herzing
Could we speak the language of dolphins?
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
15:34
Andres Lozano
Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off
15:25
David Anderson
Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals
13:03
Thomas Insel
Toward a new understanding of mental illness
3:43
Claudia Aguirre
Does stress cause pimples?
11:18
Molly Crockett
Beware neuro-bunk
16:36
Aris Venetikidis
Making sense of maps
13:23
Read Montague
What we're learning from 5,000 brains
14:52
Elyn Saks
A tale of mental illness -- from the inside
8:44
Ruby Wax
What's so funny about mental illness?
6:04
Max Little
A test for Parkinson's with a phone call
21:02
Amy Cuddy
Your body language may shape who you are
15:25
Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole
Science is for everyone, kids included
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