- -: Proof You Went Psychotic Last Night - Matt Walker
August 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain#Proof_You_Went_Psychotic_Last_Night UC Berkeley professor Matt Walker describes the different stages of sleep and jokes that everyone suffers a nightly bout of psychosis during the REM stage. ----- Why do we...
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- -: Poor Sleep a Factor in Alzheimer's and Dementia? - Matt Walker
August 26, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain UC Berkeley professor Matt Walker considers how poor quality of sleep might possibly contribute to the onset of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in elderly people. ----- Why do we sleep? Although science has...
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- -: Trucks and Trigonometry: Do Boys Excel in Math and Engineering?
October 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Lise_Eliot_Pink_Brain_Blue_Brain Neurologist Lise Eliot addresses the claim that boys tending to surpass girls in the fields of math and engineering. Eliot argues that genetic differences play no role and attributes percieved academic advantages to th...
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- -: Does the Soul Exist? - Robert Burton
October 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/12/04/The_Atheon_A_Temple_of_Science_for_Rational_Belief Dr. Burton raises the issue of whether the brain and the mind are one in the same. Do humans have souls? Do we have an essence as human beings, or are we physical? ----- Is the future of religion sc...
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- -: Constantly Checking Your Inbox? Email Addiction Explained
November 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/27/The_Tyranny_of_E-mail_John_Freeman John Freeman describes the psychology behind compulsive email checking. He explains that the neurological effects of constantly checking your inbox are similar to those of playing a slot machine. "Rather than reward ...
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- -: Seeing Is Believing: How the Brain Interprets Vision
November 6, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/Seeing_Myself_See_The_Ecology_of_Mind R. Beau Lotto, head of Lottolab Studio in London, explains that the human eye is not capable of seeing actual objects, only light reflecting off of those objects. "The patterns of light that fall onto your eye are...
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- -: Internet Addiction: A Clinical Disorder? - Judith Horstman
November 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/26/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Brain_Judith_Horstman Author and journalist Judith Horstman outlines a chapter from her most recent book, Day in the Life of Your Brain. The chapter covers technology use and overuse, including the speculated relationship bet...
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- -: A Ten-Step Program to End Email Addiction - John Freeman
November 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/27/The_Tyranny_of_E-mail_John_Freeman John Freeman outlines two of the steps in his ten-step program to end email addiction. "The number one thing...is not sending an email," he explains. "Another thing is just not checking it in the morning or at night....
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- -: Do You Have the Heroic Gene? - Paul Ekman
November 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/08/Does_Darwin_Illuminate_Emotion_and_Spirituality What makes a stranger jump into a subway to pull someone out of danger? Renowned psychologist and researcher Paul Ekman explains the instinct he calls heroic compassion. Ekam believes the reaction is gen...
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- -: Sex, Drugs, and Firing Neurons: This Is Your Brain on Cognition
November 25, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Baroness_Susan_Greenfield_Is_Online_Networking_Harmful Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield describes the brain's cognitive processes for interpreting and learning from new sensations. Greenfield claims thrill-seeking -- "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" -- ...
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