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The cockroach beatbox. By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond.

Feats of memory anyone can do. There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.

Think of Keith Barry as a hacker of the human brain -- writing routines that exploit its bugs and loopholes, and offering a revealing look at the software between our ears.

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

Dr. Paula Caplan interviewed by Rick Seaman . After decades of post-combat psychological counseling for veterans, Paula has recently created the "Listen to a Vete ran" program where non-veterans are afforded the opportunity to sit with veterans and listen to their stories without asking questions or intervening... just listening to whatever each veteran wants to say.

Johann Hari spent three years researching the war on drugs; along the way, he discovered that addiction is not what we think it is.

Spencer Wells studies human diversity -- the process by which humanity, which springs from a single common source, has become so astonishingly diverse and widespread.

Neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133 by Destin.
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Change your Brain, Change your Life. Revelations based on studying 63000 brain images across 90 countries over 20 years. How Brain imaging can change paradigms and our understanding of healthy life, no matter where we live. Physician, psychiatrist, and teacher, Daniel Amen, MD, is one of the world's foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice.

Harvard Brain researcher Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery.

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

Stoicism Explained Through Conor McGregor

Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside. "Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.

The quest to understand consciousness. Antonio Damasio is a leader in understanding the biological origin of consciousness. He also argues that emotions, far from being barriers to it, are a crucial component of decision-making. He is founder and director of the USC Brain and Creativity Institute, which draws on partners across academic disciplines to use the explosion of new neuroscience results to tackle issues from mental health to societal and global change.

The illusion of consciousness. Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.

Keynote presentation Monroe Institute Professional Seminar William Buhlman

Sleep is your superpower / Matt Walker

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