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Explores the cutting edge world of brain research discussing how the latest findings on brain functioning can be practically applied to everyday life.

"This is a fascinating examination of perhaps our most human characteristic, our innate curiosity, our deep desire to know why. Why are we more distracted by a cell-phone conversation, where we can hear only one side of the dialogue, than by an overheard argument between two people? Are children more curious than adults? What is the source of the morbid curiosity that causes bystanders to gather at crime scenes or traffic accidents? What evolutionary...

"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neurological conditions at the far borderlands of human experience. But his grasp of science was not restricted to neuroscience or medicine; he was fascinated...

Describes recent scientific understanding of how the brain gets built, providing insight into human behavior and the effects of nature and nurture; and discusses how the brain gets damaged by environmental, internal, and external influences.

In the past two decades, the familiar experience of attention - the emphasis on a particular mental activity so that it "fills the mind"--Has been subjected to much scientific inquiry. David LaBerge now provides a systematic view of the attention process as it occurs in everyday perception, thinking, and action. Drawing from a variety of research methods and findings from cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and computer science, he presents a masterful...

A century after the debut of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the neurobiological approach to understanding the subconscious is yielding to an integrated psycho-bio-sociological model. Following a concise overview of Freudian theory, NewsHour correspondent Terence Smith moderates a discussion with cognitive neuroscientist Robert Stickgold, of Harvard Medical School, and psychoanalyst Robert Pyles, president of the American Psychoanalytic Association....

In this episode, we explore how your brain can measure something that's completely invisible: time! Through a series of games and experiments, you'll learn the secret of why time flies when you're having fun, why it seems to slow down when you're in danger, and best of all, we'll show you how to keep the years from slipping by as you get older. Pay attention: You're in for the time of your life.

Combining science and psychology, an empowering guide helps individuals break away from the cycle of negative behaviors by revealing how new thinking and new beliefs can change one's behavior, emotional reactions, and habit-forming patterns.

Every time you make a decision, your brain enters an often invisible battle between risk and reward. Through a series of addictive interactive games, surprising experiments, and relatable experts you'll learn astonishing facts about how you make decisions - and how to get better at making them. So get ready to choose wisely - on Brain Games.

Our experts are on a mission - to find out where memories reside in the brain - and they're examining every millimeter for clues.