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Neuroscience and Criminality
Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke University) describes how neuroscience is involved in the legal process.
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What is Neuromorphic Computing? | AI 101
What is Neuromorphic Computing, and how might it help us overcome the von Neumann bottleneck?
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How Much AI Do You Need To Make A Neuron? | Neuromorphic Design
How similar are perceptrons to neurons anyway? We'll look at a few papers that try to figure this out.
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Rethinking the Fifth
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany examines how a combination of an awareness of neuroscience and a philosophical outlook can help deepen our understanding of the celebrated Fifth Amendment to the American Constitution.
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Can AI Change Your Memories? | Neurofeedback Therapy, Explained
Neurofeedback therapy could replace exposure therapy for people with trauma-related psychiatric conditions. But will it work?
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Neuroscience, Eventually
Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector relates her personal career trajectory of beginning as an electrical engineer before eventually becoming a specialist in computer vision and neuroscience.
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Breaking Down Barriers
Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes his long-standing interest in trying to penetrate the consciousness and feeling of animals, his optimism at the growing societal realisation of our animal nature, and the...
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Evaluating Emotions
Cognitive scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) describes how her quest to understand emotions led her, eventually, to the current frontiers of neuroscience.
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Animal Emotions
Primatologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal (Emory) describes how neuroscience has shed light on the science of animal emotions.
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The Sociology of Cognitive Science
Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) gives her view on how psychology has evolved due to the influence of modern neuroscience.
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Emotional Development
UNC Chapel Hill psychologist Barbara Fredrickson describes how she believes that the wisdom of the body is a sometimes overlooked feature in our rush towards neuroscience, and that her interest in studying positive emotions had mostly...
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Why gratitude is good for you (seriously)
Gratitude may sound like a woo-woo concept, but science shows it might be a key to happiness. Gratitude is not just for the good times. I know it’s hard to feel grateful in 2020, but now is when we need it most. Believe it or not,...
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The fad diet that cures epilepsy
This may surprise you, but the ketogenic diet was not originally intended to trim your waist or help you get shredded. Rather, the keto diet was created over a hundred years ago as a way to treat...epilepsy. That's right, this fad diet...
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The dubious claims of brain training (and what actually works)
Brain training has gotten a bad rep for saying they prevent Alzheimer’s disease or boost you to 200 IQ. But does that mean you should uninstall all your apps? Well, turns out that not all brain training is created equal. Find out what...
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My PhD Dissertation Journey
I did it! PhDone! PhinisheD! I'm a doctor! I have finally completed my Doctorate in Neuroscience. Graduate school over these last six years has been a wonderful, frustrating, gratifying, arduous experience. A few short months ago, I...
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How The Giant Squid Axon Changed Neuroscience
A lot of techniques and methods used in neuroscience have been developed thanks to modern technology and science. But what did neuroscientists do back in the day before all this fancy stuff? Well, turns out the giant squid axon was...
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How cats manipulate your brain with parasites
The archetype of the crazy cat lady is embedded in our culture. You know the type. But could your cats actually cause that kind of behavior? Perhaps a parasite taking over your brain? Even if you don't think it can control your mind, it...
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Can Humans Get High On Catnip?
How does catnip get cats high? And can catnip get humans high? Also, wanna see our cats react to catnip? All this and more with Alie making a cat video this time! And if you stick around, you’ll get to see how our cats, Bill and Loki,...
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What causes Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's Disease is a horrible condition that can strike at the brain of your loved ones and steal their memories and lives. But what is Alzheimer's Disease? What's going on in the brain? Is Alzheimer's just a normal part of aging?...
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This Is Your Brain On Shrooms
Psychedelics like magic mushrooms have huge effects on the brain. But what are they doing up there? More than 180 species of "magic mushrooms" produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin. And ingesting it triggers some pretty trippy...
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This is what COVID does to your brain.
We’ve learned a lot about COVID’s effects on the brain over the past two years. And frankly, it’s not pretty. Brain fog, “long COVID”, sudden death, all resulting from neurological damage done by this awful virus. Despite quarantines,...
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These women are changing neuroscience
We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting some incredible female neuroscientists with Stories of WiN, a blog about women in neuroscience. Join us to learn about their exciting contributions to understanding the brain from...
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The World's Largest Neuroscience Conference
Science isn’t just pipettes and bunsen burners. This episode, Alie had the chance to attend the world’s largest scientific meeting, the Society for Neuroscience conference (SfN) right here in sunny San Diego! In this episode of Neuro...
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The Neuroscience of Zombies
To celebrate the day of the dead right, we talked zombies with Dr. Bradley Voytek, the co-author of "Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep". He gives us the answers to important questions like: Are zombies fast or slow? What is your favorite...