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Is Prevention of Dementia Possible? With Henry Brodaty
This plenary from Technology Networks’ online symposium, Advances in Alzheimer’s Research recording features Alzheimer’s expert Henry Brodaty, who gives an overview of the environmental factors that influence Alzheimer’s risk and the trials that have investigated their potential to modify disease risk.
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What Actually Happens If You Get Coronavirus?
What is the coronavirus and what does it actually do in your body?
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Stanford's Professor Robert Sapolsky Depression Lecture (Video)
Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, posits that depression is the most damaging disease that you can experience. Right now it is the number four cause of disability in the US and it is becoming more common. Sapolsky states that depression is as real of a biological disease as is diabetes.
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Mapping the Fruit Fly Hemibrain
Researchers have mapped the connectome of the adult Drosophila central brain, reconstructing 25 000 neurons.
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3 Big Things We Learned About the Brain in 2019
We’ve learned a lot about how the human brain works, but there are still new discoveries and mysteries each year, and 2019 was no exception. We learned pretty big things, from internal compasses, to mysterious sniffers, to brain-washing (no, not that kind)!
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A Stroke of Bad Luck: The 2019 Paget Lecture by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
Watch Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester give the 2019 Paget Lecture. She presents her ground breaking work on stroke and the role of inflammation in brain damage, that has recently translated into clinical trials.
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Why Your Brain Thinks This Water Is Spiralling
Robbie Gonzalez meets neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn about illusions showing water that appears to stand still or float upward, wheels that appear to move backward, and more.
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How Miracle Berries Alter Your Taste Buds
We gave Physics Girl, Space Time, Above the Noise, and Two Cents some miracle berry pills and lemons, tabasco sauce, tomatoes, and a bunch of other random foods, to figure out if this miraculous taste-modifying protein has any limits.
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The Biology of Heritable Memories
Can we inherit memories? This controversial idea, which goes back to antiquity, was rejected since it violates a fundamental dogma known as “The Second Law of Biology”.
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JOURNAL CLUB: Eternal Sunshine of the Sober Mind: Rewriting Memories With Ketamine?
In our Journal Club series, Neuroscience Editor Ruairi Mackenzie takes a look at an interesting paper in more detail. Expect low-quality facial hair, medium-quality video resolution, and always high-quality neuroscience.
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