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Prenatal Development of the Brain (1 1/2 min video/ HHMI) |
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalophy (CTE) - This is the cause for dementia and death in football players! |
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Limbic System: Understanding the Emotional Brain (1:28 video) |
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Synethesia: When Sound, Numbers, and Letters Are Perceived as Color |
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The Savant Brain |
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Ten Special Savants |
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How the Brain Constructs Reality |
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Suprachiasmatic Nucleus and Circadian Rhythms |
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Basal Gaglia - subcortical stuctures that coordiates and smooth out muscle contractions (diseases of the BG) |
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Learn About Toureettee Syndrome and Listen to a Young Boy Talk About His Life with Tourette Syndrome |
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Two Minute Neuroscience: Tourette Syndrine (2 min) |
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Foreign Accent Syndrome |
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Cerebral palsy |
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Parkinson's disease |
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Fiber tracks in the brain are axons that connect integrating centers. This is how these fiber tracks are classified: 1) The commissural tracks connect integrating centers horizontally between the two cerebral hemispheres
2) Association tracks connect integrating centers in same hemisphere which maybe either long and short. Therefroe, they connect grey matter between gyrus within same lobe (short) or between different lobes (long) 3) Projection fibers connect integrating centers along a vertical axis(e.g. the cerebrum to the brain stem). We can see these tracks using MRI Diffuse Tensor Imaging. /// |
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The Neural Network of the Neocortex: Image No Text / Image With Text |
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain -- Lecture Series on "Being Human" |
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CNS Neurotransmitters (Review Slide Show) |
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Transverse Sections of the Brain (Images: MRI False Color) |
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The Brain: 1) Evolutionary Layers of the Human Brain // 2) The Two Pathways of Fear // 3) The Pleasure Center // 4) The Reward Circuit |
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Language, Larynx, and the Hyoid Bond |
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Evolution, Language Concepts, & the Hyoid Bone |
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Limbic System and Concept of Historical Evolution |
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The Predictive Brain - How AI Tries to Copy Our Brain's Principle Functional Model |
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CREB: Cyclic AMP Response Element Binding Protein & Its Role in Long Term Potentiation |
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Vertigo |
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Growth of Neural Connections in the Teenage Brain |
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The Teenage Brain: Unequal Rate of Development of Limbic Lobe and Frontal Cortex |
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What Does Running Do To the Brain? |
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What is consciousness? |
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Memory Hackers: Scientists are learning how we can edit memories—and delete our worst fears. |
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Toxoplasmosis gondii - This is a protozoa parasite that reprograms neural circuits in rodents. The parasite-cat-rodent dynamic is a fascinating biology story, however. If you own a cat then you too may have been infected by this parasite. So, how is human physiology affected by this parasite? -- Dr. Robert Sapolsky reviews the science of toxoplasmosis and explains his research on this subject. |
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The map of brain function was originally developed when there was a loss of brain tissue which resulted from war, industrial accidents, or disease. Upon examination of the brain after death, investigators correlated the damaged tissue to loss of function. Phineas Gage, Henry Molaison, and Clive Wearing suffered brain damage that contributed to our understanding about brain function. Today, we can exam brain function in living test subjects using technology like fMRI, PET, and CT. Learn more about this topic by follwoing the links below. |
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Phineas Gage: Personality Changes Resulting From Partial Frontal Lobe Necrosis |
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Henry Molaison: Absence of New Declarative Memory But Retention of Procedural Memory |
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Clive Wearing: The Man with the 20 Second Memory But Retains His Procedural Memory |
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Clive Wearing: (video - 1 min 6 sec) Even though Clive Wearing cannot remember people or events, his piano-playing skills are intact. |
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Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist. He explores the structure and function of the brain in order to understand the difference between conscious and unconscious thoughts. He also explores the brain to understand how we understand reality and questions if free will exists! All of these videos are extremely entertaining and educational. |
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Brain Over Mind? // Dr. David Eagleman |
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Synesthesia / Dr. Ealgleman |
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The Brain / How Do I Decide / Dr. Eagleman |
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The Brain / Why Do I Need You / Dr. Eagleman |
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The Brain / Who Will We Be / Dr. Eagleman |
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TED Talk: Can We Create New Senses for Humans? |
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Cup Stacking Champion with Dr. Eagleman |
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Memory and Learning are examples of a "higher brain function" (i.e. in the same way that motor control is a type of higher brain function). How the brain learns, remembers, and retrieves memories are all "unsettled science", however. Scientists are working everyday to unlock the mysteries. We know learning and memory occurs fundamentally in the brain at the synaptic level. There are at least two types of memories: declarative (which is explicit-conscious-hippocampus dependent) and procedural (implicit-unconscious-hippocampus independent - but amygdala - caudate - cerebellum dependent). The following review articles (in conjunction with the HHMI resources) will give you a good introduction to the fundamental principles of memory and learning. |
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Memory Consolidation |
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Molecular Memory |
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Types of Memories |
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Explicit VS Implicit Memories |
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Explicit Memory |
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Implicit Memory |
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Dr. Robert Sapolsky Explains the Link Between Biology and Behavior // Dr. Sapolsky is a neuroscientist and primatologist at Standford Univeristy. Dr. Sapolsky is celebrated as a "SCIENCE ROCK STAR"! I hope you make time to watch some of his lectures and to learn from a true genius. He won the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987 (i.e. the Genius Award!) for his creative breakthrough in understanding how the brain works |
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Introduction to Human Behavior (1 hour) |
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Behavioral Evolution (1:37) |
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Behavioral Evolution II (1:37) |
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Our Best and Worst Self - TED Talk (15 min) |
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Our Best and Worst Self (1 hour 13 minutes) - Complete lecture on this topic. |
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Are Humans Just Another Primate? (1:16) |
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A Brain Tuned Perfectly for Making Music // Musical History is Being Made in Our Time - What can we learn about our brain structure and function from Alma? |
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Alma Deutscher's BBC Interview |
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The Henley Festival Interview |
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Alma Deutscher: The Mystery of a Perfect Brain Expressed in Music |
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Alma Deutscher Plays Slow Movement From Her New New Piano Concerto |
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Alma Deutscher Third Movement Violin Concerto - Romania |
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Alma playing Mozart piano concerto K.246, with cadenza by Alma Deutscher (2015) |
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Cinderella by Alma Deutscher and conducted by Alma Deutsher (2023) |
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A Wunderkid Comes of Age (2023) |
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A special thank you to www.wondermoms.org These are compassionate women who provide love and care for autistic children. |
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What is autism? |
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How to calm a child with autism. |
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How to create a sensory safe backyard landscape for your autistic child with special needs |
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Estate planning for parents of autistic children |
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Classroom accomodations for children with sensory issues |
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Moving with kids with autisim |
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