Ken Livingston, professor of psychology, discusses recent research on the neurological underpinnings of spiritual experiences. A Two-Minute Lecture at Vassar College

Brief discussion of the brain in context of communicatioin networks

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LibraryOfCongress wrote: Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, convened a...

The story of Phineas Gage - an early case illustrating the role of the frontal lobes in cognition.

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The extraordinary mind of Kim Peek.

A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged. For years he listened to the conversations going on around him but he was unable to...

TheEbruTV wrote: conscious the whole time. 46-year-old Rom Houben is now communicating with one finger and a special touchscreen computer on his wheelchair after being thought of as a vegetable during his 23 year coma. An...

healthcentral wrote: This medical video looks at the amazing advancements in being able to scan our brains and actually see our thoughts.

artsgroup01 wrote: the development of neuroscience from its classical reliance on information from brain injuries and autopsies through the new insights discovered with electronic microscopes, EEG equipment, PET scans and...

Selective NNR compounds may offer a novel targeted approach to enhancing cognitive function in Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. These compounds may be better tolerated...

One of the most complex activities ever recorded for an octopus - evidence of "tool" use in the form of constructing a shelter from coconut shells.

nbOutreachUW wrote: Students place both hands into a bowl containing water at room temperature. Both hands should feel the same temperature. Or should they? This demo shows that what we feel is relative to what we felt...

EmpoweredHealthNews wrote: http://www.empowereddoctor.com/story_1354.html According to new research from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as we age the human brain breaks down even in the absence of serious medical...

One of the most famous memory patients of all time, and what we may yet learn from his brain.