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Metacognition Offers Path to Understanding Consciousness
Studying thought processes provides insight into subjective experience. Neuroscientist Megan Peters explains.
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What’s the Difference Between Sleep and Anesthesia?
It feels like falling asleep, but anesthesia and snoozing are completely different. Neuroscientist and anesthesiologist Emery Brown explains what makes them different.
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ICYMI: Moms' Gut Microbes Shape Brain Development in Young Mice
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ICYMI: How Ketamine Alters Consciousness
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The Neuroscience of Imagination
Imagine a duck teaching a French class. A ping-pong match in orbit around a black hole. A dolphin balancing a pineapple. You’ve never seen any of these things, but you can imagine them instantly.
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What Happens When You Go Under
Anesthesia now allows tens of thousands patients every day to avoid the pain and memories of their procedures. But how does anesthesia work?
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The Three Causes of Fainting
Fainting is the sudden and temporary loss of consciousness, and consciousness arises from neural activity in the cerebral cortex. Anything that disrupts neural activity in the cerebral cortex can cause loss of consciousness.
Hope for the 1%ers
The rich are not the only 1%ers. About 1% of the world has epilepsy.
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A Conscious Dying Brain?
Following a car accident, a heart attack, or any other life-threatening event, there have been many instances documented where people that were near death, experienced something vivid, something that to them was real.
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Voluntary Control Over Pupil Size
A fascinating report in the journal "Current Biology" states that patients with "locked in syndrome" can communicate by controlling the size of their pupils
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Antonio Damasio: The Quest to Understand Consciousness
Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness, but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.
TED
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