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“I Am My Connectome”: TED Talk given by Sebastian Seung
In this TED talk Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at MIT, discusses the “connectome” – the connections formed between...
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Measure Sound of Pins Dropping
"...making a bridge between the laboratory science and real life is the only way to get kids into having a passion about it."
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Can Someone in a Vegetative State Communicate Thoughts?
In this short video (about 4 mins) from the New York Times, David Corcoran discusses evidence from an fMRI study that suggests that people in a vegetative state can communicate thoughts.
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Interactive Video: Progression of Alzheimer’s in the Brain
Click here for an interactive video showing the progression of Alzheimer’s in the brain from the Globe and Mail. ————————————————...
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Gerald Edelman on Consciousness & Neurophilosophy
Dr. Gerald Edelman discusses the brain, consciousness, Neural Darwinism, the theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS), and re-entrant feedback connections.
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Cognitive Electrophysiology: Signals of the Mind
A Tribute to Steven A. Hillyard A Satellite Symposium of the Cognitive Neuroscience Science Meeting Saturday, April 2, 2011, Ballroom A, Hyatt Regency San Francisco ______________________________________________________________...
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Scientists look to new imaging techniques to measure metals in the brain
From the Globe and Mail: We are metal heads. Our brains need iron, copper, manganese and zinc to function, yet there is growing evidence that these metals may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease multiple...
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Former CFL players’ brains used to study link between concussions and disease
From the Globe and Mail: Concussion stories from Bobby Kuntz’s days with the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made for family football folklore until a decade ago when they suddenly seemed bittersweet. Mr. Kuntz,...
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How Brains Are Built: Principles of Computational Neuroscience
From The Dana Foundation: Editor’s note: The goal of computational neuroscience is to understand the brain and its mechanisms well enough to artificially simulate their functions. In some areas, like hearing, vision, and pros...
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Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex
A. Etkinsend, T. Egner, R. Kalisch Article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences Abstract Negative emotional stimuli activate a broad network of brain regions, including the medial prefrontal (mPFC) and anterior cingulate (ACC) corti...