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• Brain Story

  First Among Equals Growing the Mind Episodes 4 and 5 of the amazing series focusing on the human brain. Its from 2000 I believe, but still holds up ok. All 6 episodes can be found on bittorrent. Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:38 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, BBC, mind, human, chimps

• Horizon:How does your memory work?

  Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding Read More...
  Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:05 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, BBC, mind, memory, human, drugs, horizon, amnesia

• The Brain

  5 hour-long documentaries on the Human Brain. Read More...
  Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 3:29 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, mind, human, intelligence, emotion

• PBS Nova: Ape Genius

  The more researchers learn about the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans (see Our Family Tree)—the more evidence they find of creative intelligence. What, then, is the essential difference between us and them? "Ape Genius," a NOVA-National Read More...
  Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:13 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, Creativity, mind, genius, nova, pbs, intelligence, primates, ape

• Total Isolation

  An experiment in sensory deprivation shows how lack of stimulus can change the brain in remarkable short periods of time. Read More...
  Posted Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:50 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, mind, isolation, sensory deprivation, stimulus

• The Human Mind

  Part 1: Get Smart. The first programme in the series uncovers what happens in our minds when we learn, remember and have original ideas. It explores what we can do to improve our ability to learn and manipulate knowledge, and shows how eating fish oils Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:26 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, BBC, mind, memory, learning, winston

• Nova: Evolution pt6: The Mind's Big Bang

  PBS Nova, Evolution pt6: The Mind's Big Bang documentary. Read More...
  Posted Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:30 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, Evolution, mind, human, nova, pbs

• Vilayanur Ramachandran: Journey to the center of your mind

  In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear Read More...
  Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:32 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, mind, synesthesia, phantom limb, Capgras, Ramachandran

• Virtual out-of-body experience

  A group of neuroscientists have induced out-of-body experiences (sort of) for the first time, using virtual reality and an experimental set-up. Read more about it here. Read More...
  Posted Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:12 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Brain, virtual reality, mind, out-of-body

• Music and the Mind

  In this edition of "Grey Matters," Aniruddh Patel, of the Neurosciences Institute, discusses what music can teach us about the brain, and what brain science, in turn, can reveal about music. Series: "Grey Matters" from UCTV: UC San Diego. A little slow Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:37 PM by Veritas / 2 Comments

  Tags: Brain, mind, Neurosciences, Patel, music, UCTV, linguistics, language