Brain Science

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Is pain just in our minds?

Did you know that more Australians suffer from chronic pain than diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer combined? And every day this costs the Australian people almost a million dollars. Professor Lorimer Moseley is an Australian neuroscientist who believes the mind is a powerful thing, and he asks the question: is pain just all in our heads?

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How To Build a Better Brain

Executive Vice President and Provost Mark S. Kamlet moderated a panel discussing CMU’s interdisciplinary brain research. The event highlighted some of the great things going on in brain, mind and learning sciences.

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Seeing Myself See: The Ecology of Mind

Colors can play games with your mind. There are many illusions created by colors and light that you may not realize. R Beau Lotto is a neuroscientist and head of the Lottolab at University College London who uses these puzzles as a way to look into our own minds.

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Gero Miesenboeck Reengineers a Brain

In hopes to map the brain, scientists around the world have attempted to take on a daunting task: to record the activity of every neuron inside the brain. While this task has been pursued by many different approaches, Gero Miesenboeck uses a different approach: working backwards.

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Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain

Richard Davidson is doing pioneering work in the field of neuroplasticity, which says that the brain is malleable, and we can transform our brains with what we think and what we do. He calls this transformation, contemplative practice.

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Controlling the Brain with Light

We’ve seen many advances in remarkable treatments for psychiatric diseases, but so far the majority conclusion is that the side effects are too great. But Karl Deisseroth is pioneering a new treatment through biomedical engineering: light pulses.

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Learning and Memory: How it Works and When it Fails

The topic of memory is relevant to everyone. In this lecture, you are introduced to the way memory is formed, organized and functions. Also, differences between short and long term memory and memory loss problems, such as dementia, are discussed.

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The Female Brain

Dr. Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist who went to UC Berkeley, Yale School of Medicine and attended Harvard Medical School for her residency, takes us into a woman’s mind to highlight some of the main points she discusses in her bestselling book, The Female Brain.

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The Male Brain

Dr. Louann Brizendine brings u sa closer look at today’s science and reveals that differences in the architecture of the male and female mind are from a lifetime of genes and hormones (mainly testosterone) radically altering the brain’s structure.

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Brain Lessons for Anxious Times

There is an area of the human brain called the amygdala and this little structure protects you from danger on a moment-to-moment basis. It plays a role in how people with anxiety disorders deal with fearful situations.