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CAPS - it's a simple word, but the syndrome it describes in medicine is extremely complex. CAPS is the acronym for a group of rare, inherited, auto-inflammatory disorders known officially as cryoprin-associated periodic syndromes. These diseases are characterized by recurrent rashes, fevers, joint pain, and fatigue. They can last a lifetime and can be triggered by everything from stress to exercise to cool temperatures. The good news is that helpful...

Renowned psychologist Stephen Kosslyn, known best for his work on visual cognition and learning, describes how a better understanding of how the brain works can be directly applied to developing a theory of personality of who we are and how we can best recognize our strengths and weaknesses.

Do we all listen the same? How do we listen? Can noise make us sick? Do we all lose hearing ability over the years? Where do the rhythm and the music come from? Why do we all like music?Bruno Grossi plays with the idea of ??conducting sound experiments while Hernán Moreno invites us to imagine the lives of people without hearing.From the hand of Rodolfo Llinás, we know the functioning of our auditory system and the effect of sound on our brain...

Puppeteers use strings to control their movements. We, on the other hand, are manipulated by the brain. The brain is the center of the nervous system of almost all vertebrate and invertebrate animals. The brain is in charge of controlling all the organs in the body. It generates patterns of muscle activity and promotes secretion of chemicals called hormones. This central control is what enables a quick and coordinated response to changes in the environment....

Alpinist Kurt Diemberger sits down with Philip Lieberman to explore how memories are shaped by extreme environments and how the brain copes with the effects of altitude.

Based on Dr. Norman Doidge’s book, THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING describes the birth a new kind of medicine that combines the best of cutting edge Western brain science and holistic insights from traditional Eastern medicine—which has long understood that the mind, and energy, has a key role to play in healing. It uses the most challenging cases to show us that far from something that is inaccessible, locked inside the skull, unreachable, the brain...

Our country house turns into a haunted house. We take ten fear junkies and see if we can really make them scared on our fright night. We meet the Reverend Peter, who has a soft spot for evil, and Zoe, who bonds with her dad over horror--but there's one scare that even she can't stomach ... Fear is one of our most basic human emotions. In the past, it kept us from being eaten by a wild animal. But today that isn't so much of a threat, and yet we live...

Brainwave Dreams is a multi-episode series presented by the Rubin Museum of Art that examines our understanding of shared human experience. Seven episodes in the series.

Emails, SMS, live threads, blogs, social networks, e-commerce, etc. The flood of information that has inundated the planet for the past few years does not concern only institutions, multinationals or research centers. We are directly affected on a daily basis in our private and professional lives. Short of moving to the middle of nowhere or a deserted island, there seems no way of escaping the tidal wave of information. Everywhere we go, we bring...

Neuropathologist Dr. Marco Rossi examines different human brain specimens and presents evidence of trauma or disease. Brains examined include those of a 59-year-old woman with dementia; an 82-year-old man who suffered a road accident; a young man with a shunting tube for hydrocephalus; an elderly man with Parkinson's disease; an elderly female stroke victim; and a middle-aged woman with hemiplegia.