TEDxUWO - Adrian Owen - The Quest for Consciousness
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Imagine if you were completely conscious but couldn't move or speak? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has been using brain-imaging techniques to detect consciousness in patients who are presumed to be vegetative, sometimes for many years. By giving simple commands and then measuring brain activity, Owen has learned some patients are completely aware d... Read more
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- -: TEDxUWO - Adrian Owen - The Quest for Consciousness
April 26, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Imagine if you were completely conscious but couldn't move or speak? Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has been using brain-imaging techniques to detect consciousness in patients who are presumed to be vegetative, sometimes for many years. By giving simple commands and then measuring brain activity, Owe...
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- -: Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest
March 18, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible story of the climbers' battle against extreme conditions and uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of ...
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- -: Charles Limb: Your brain on improv
January 5, 2011 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
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- -: Breakthroughs in Imaging Neurovascular Diseases
October 4, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 16, 2010 Breakthroughs in Imaging Neurovascular Diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis: Technical Aspects, Clinical Ramifications, and Understanding the Etiology of the Disease. Presented by Dr. E. Mark Haacke. ABSTRACT Magnetic Resonance Imaging has long been an impor...
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Christopher deCharms: Christopher deCharms Looks Inside the Brain
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)A new non-invasive way to investigate the workings of the brain is presented by Christopher deCharms in a short and promising talk.
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Deborah Rhodes: A Tool That Finds 3x More Breast Tumors, and Why It's Not Available to You
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Deborah Rhodes talks about how breast tumors can escape diagnosis and reveals a new technology that can hurdle this obstruction to medical diagnosis.
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