Brains - neuroscience: How does the brain work?

As the most complex organ in your body, your brain changes radically throughout your life. Starting from before birth and continuing even after you... (2023)

On autopilot, the mind reveals new connections. (2024)

Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself. (2024)

It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than the price of a cup of coffee Why?: Culturin... (2021)

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financia... (2023)

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass”. I discuss the immensely powerful chem... (2022)

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss how our brain and body track time and the role that neurochemicals,... (2022)

In this episode, we talk with Jeff Hawkins—an entrepreneur and scientist, known for inventing some of the earliest handheld computers, the Palm and... (2021)

Learn how the brain works in 5 minutes using only your hands. Support me on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thepsychshow Topics: - Cortex, gray mat... (2018)

"Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer" - Aeon Essays - Robert Epst... (2017)

FOR those who reckon that brain-computer interfaces will never catch on, there is a simple answer: they already have. Well over 300,000 people worl... (2018)

TED Ed, Anita Collins When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument... (2017)

For the past eight years we have been exploring the ways in which brain imaging may illuminate and extend the findings from our regular testing. Fu... (2018)

Matter – Medium, 2013: "Autism changed Henry Markram’s family. Now his Intense World theory could transform our understanding of the condition. (2013)

Researchers find evidence that neural systems actively remove memories, suggesting that forgetting may be the default mode of the brain. (2018)

We learn things throughout our entire lives, but we still don’t know everything because we forget a lot of information. Bright Side will tell you a... (2018)

Neuroscientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have discovered that when a synapse strengthens, neighboring synapses weake... (2018)

The Verge interviews Caroline Williams, author of My Plastic Brain, about neuroscience, brain-hacking, and whether science can help improve her mind. (2018)

As scientists work to unravel the mysteries of the mind, people with unusual conditions, from hyper-empathy to perfect memory, are helping add to o... (2018)

True stories of indefatigable researchers, heroic engineers, and champions of, neuroscience who are finally turning the corner in the effort to und... (2018)

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts. (2018)

He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works. (2018)

Route planning is a key element for spatial navigation. Neurons in the hippocampus and surrounding structures, such as place cells or grid cells, b... (2018)

We think Neuralink, which develops brain-machine interfaces, is recording from the neurons of monkeys as a stepping stone toward humans. (2019)

Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more u... (2019)

Most of us think "perfect" memory means never forgetting, but maybe forgetting actually helps us navigate a world that is random and ever-changing.... (2017)

Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxin... (2019)

The Mind, Explained is a Vox documentary distributed by Netflix. It explores memory, anxiety, dreams, mindfulness, and psychedelics. (2019)

The human brain is a marvel of biological engineering. It allowed us to accumulate and pass on the knowledge of many prior generations throughout m... (2020)

We’re mapping the brain in amazing detail—but our brain can’t understand the picture. But, as massive as my dataset sounds, it represents just ... (2020)

Yep, brains are shrinking. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the average human brain size is shrinking. And we can’t blame reality T.V. or Twitter.... (2021)

In the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, a few hours east of San Francisco, are the Moaning Caverns, a cave system that begins, after… (2020)

"Your thoughts, feelings, memories, attention, what you experience in this subjective world is part of mind.” (2021)