Name: Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons From Neuroscience
Released: 2017-02-03T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Indre Viskontas

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Shattering popular myths to build a more accurate understanding of the brain; exploring the neuroscience of everyday life; examining topics such as decision making, memory, dreams, emotions, consciousness and mental illnesses.

Educational · 2017 · 32 min

Starring Indre Viskontas

EPISODE 1

Is Your Brain Perfectly Designed?

Debunking a fundamental myth about the human brain; discovering how evolution and experience shape brains; learning about the neurons responsible for self-awareness and motor coordination; understanding why the brain is a work in progress.

32 min · Jun 1, 2020
EPISODE 2

Are Bigger Brains Smarter?

Exploring concepts such as the encephalization quotient that compares brain mass to body mass; learning about the g factor, a measure of cognitive ability; the lessons scientists are learning from studying the brain of Albert Einstein.

30 min · Jun 1, 2020
EPISODE 3

Is Mental Illness Just a Chemical Imbalance?

Major psychiatric illnesses are not just the result of chemical concentrations in the brain; focusing on an intriguing exploration of schizophrenia and depression, two disorders that have proven to be very complicated and nuanced.

31 min · Jun 1, 2020
EPISODE 4

Are Creative People Right-Brained?

The division of the brain into a creative side and an analytical side; exploring the interconnectedness of the two hemispheres of the brain; discovering what neuroimaging reveals about the way brains think and create; the importance of collaboration.

28 min · Jun 1, 2020
EPISODE 5

How Different Are Male and Female Brains?

Studies that claim to find significant differences the brains of men and women; exploring gender differences in the brain; misinterpretation of differences; comparing the male and female amygdala and hippocampus; how genders express emotions.

31 min · Jun 1, 2020
EPISODE 6

How Accurate Is Your Memory?

Unpacking the accuracy of memories and how information is encoded, stored and retrieved in the brain; examining the impact of Alzheimer's disease and amnesia on the brain; exploring absentmindedness, memory blocking and misattribution.

30 min · Jun 1, 2020

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