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Understanding the Power of Meditation
Neuroscientists are exploring the source of the brain benefits behind habitual meditative practices.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Ride the (Brain) Wave
Brain cells work in concert: they fire together and go quiet together, giving rise to rhythmic electrical activity called brain waves.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 4 min
Blind Minds Eyes: Aphantasia and Our Diverse Inner Lives
Learn about aphantasia and your "mind's eye" in this video.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 4 min
Nutty Numbers
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 5 min
The Neuroscience of Ghosts
The video is a fun explanation of the neurological basis of the phantom limb syndrome.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 3 min
Teens and Decision Making
In this lesson Scholastics passes along the knowledge that understanding how your brain works can help explain why you behave like you do.
  • Scholastic
Virtual Neurons
How does the body know when it has been cut, or stung, or hit?
  • Brain U
On the Grid
The brain has a remarkable ability to tell where you are and where you're going.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
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.
  • TED
  • 5 min
Art, Music, and the Brain: Benefits of Musical Training
Daniel Levitin, professor of neuroscience at McGill University, describes the way that learning a musical instrument alters and strengthens key areas of the brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 22 min
Brains At Play: What Do We Know?
In this video NPR tackles the questions why do we play, and are we the only ones who play?
  • NPR
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?
  • American Chemical Society
  • 3 min
The Mystery of Face Blindness
Face recognition is a remarkably complex process. And for some people, telling faces apart is an almost impossible task.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 8 min

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