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  1. Infections and the Brain (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    The brain is well protected against most infections, but once they get into or around the brain they can cause fatal or serious long-term consequences. Some bacterial, viral and parasitic infections are...

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  2. Counting Neurons (2017)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    Podcast. Interview with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist who, with her colleagues, has developed a pioneering technique that has made it possible to accurately count the number of neurons in...

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  3. Shakespeare’s Memory (2016 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Science

    Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

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  4. Is Your Brain Male or Female? (2015)

    Director
    Mark Bates
    Producer
    Mark Bates
    Subject
    Science

    Documentary. Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently. New research suggests that the connections in men and women’s brains follow...

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  5. Meet Your Brain (3 Parts) (2012)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology

    In the 2011 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood delivers three, 60-minute lectures on the human brain. In the last few years, science has started to...

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  6. Want to Upload Your Brain? Science Fiction Comes to Life (2012)

    Subject
    Biology

    Video recording of a talk given at the Commonwealth Club of California on 13/2/2012. MIT professor Sebastian Seung has found what he calls the nexus of nature and nurture: the "Connectome", or the network...

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  7. Rsa Animate: The Divided Brain (2011)

    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology

    Short animation summarising a lecture given by psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s public events programme in which he explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered...

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  8. Rsa Animate: Language As a Window into Human Nature (2011)

    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology

    In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker explains how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Th transcript of this talk can be downloaded as a pdf file. [11 minutes]

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  9. Secret Life of the Brain (2010)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC), £59.98

    This five part series looks at the intricacies of the brain, from childhood to adulthood. A A baby’s brain weighs less then a pound, but within it lies the power to control movement, as well as the ability...

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  10. Music Instinct, The: Science and Song (2010)

    Director
    Elenea Mannes
    Subject
    Biology; Music; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

    While listening to music, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, asks the questions "where do goose bumps come from?" and "what’s going on in my brain that allows the goosebumps to happen?" Levitin leads a group...

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