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The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white.

"A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific...

Watch what happens in the brain during an ischemic stroke, its symptoms, and the importance of calling 911 if you think someone may be having a stroke.

Watch what happens in the brain during a hemorrhagic stroke, its symptoms, and the importance of calling 911 if you think someone may be having a stroke.

Vicky starts her search for choir members, meeting people with different types of dementia and at different stages. One of the first to join is former woodwork teacher Chris, whose frontotemperal dementia is leading to increasingly disinhibited behaviour. The youngest member is 31-year-old Dan, who was diagnosed with a rare form of genetic Alzheimer's two years ago. Dan's father died at 36, though at the time no-one realised why. There's a risk that...

More than five million people in the U.S. are living with dementia. It is commonly misdiagnosed as delirium in the hospital. Now there are ways to distinguish between both.

About one in nine Americans over age 45 report memory issues. But there are some ways you can improve your memory.

Globally acclaimed musician Nenad Bach's performing career was abruptly cut short by the onset of Parkinson's Disease, however playing competitive ping pong has not only halted, but actually reversed his symptoms enough so he can once again take the stage. This film was recognized with an Honorable Mention at the World Parkinson Coalition's annual World Parkinson's Congress.