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Can Neurofeedback Help Children With Autism? 17 Apr 2012 | 08:18 am
Watch as four families share their stories of using EEG Neurofeedback to help ease the challenges faced by children with Autism. Neurofeedback pioneers, Susan and Siegfried Othmer, recount their own j...
Neural Stem Cells Reverse Alzheimer’s-Like Symptoms 25 Mar 2012 | 07:31 pm
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have reversed Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in mouse models of the disease with injections of neural stem cells. The first author, Mathew Blurton-Jones,...
Why We Think It’s OK To Cheat 15 Mar 2012 | 05:30 pm
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it’s OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we’re predictably irratio...
How We Read Each Other’s Minds 4 Mar 2012 | 11:05 pm
Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples’ t...
Going Home – Award Winning Film On Alzheimer’s 24 Feb 2012 | 06:26 pm
This prize-winning video was produced by Vinn Bay and Tee Boon Leng for a video competition as part of the ADI (Alzheimer’s Disease International) conference in March 2009. It depicts a grandmother st...
Your Brain In Love 11 Feb 2012 | 04:09 pm
Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of peopl...
Autism Every Day 3 Jan 2012 | 07:40 pm
Autism Every Day is a film produced by Lauren Thierry and Jim Watkins of October Group and Eric Solomon of Milestone Video. A 13-minute version of the film was screened at A New Decade for Autism, a f...
Christmas Brain Teasers and Puzzles 10 Dec 2011 | 11:35 am
In this video you’ll find seven “word-picture” brain teasers. Can you solve all of them? Visit http://www.BrainPagesChristmas.com to check your work.
Can Certain Sounds Heal Your Pain? 13 Sep 2011 | 10:47 am
Based on over a decade of new research, Don Campbell, bestselling author of The Mozart Effect®, and Alex Doman, an expert in the practical application of sound and listening, show how we can use mu...
Here’s A Cool Optical Illusion Video 20 Jul 2010 | 08:49 am
This optical illusion relies on a principle called “Chromatic Adaptation”. An object may be viewed under various conditions. For example, it may be illuminated by the sunlight, the light of a fire, o...