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About this title: This episode considers how the neuroscience revolution is affecting our understanding of what it is to be human. For example, neuro-biological devices developed in this century enable repairs to the brain after injury or stroke. The concept of neuroplasticity is explained in detail by Chet Moritz, Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine. Neural implants can guide this plasticity and awaken the plasticity of spinal nerves, independent of their connections to the motor cortex. The ability of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) to map brain activity has enabled neuroscientists to observe the formation of memories, where language occurs, and how pain, learning, and emotion are represented in the brain. The next step will be to produce biologically based neural implants to record and/or stimulate the brain. Physics and engineering principles are being applied to develop devices to stimulate precise areas of the brain via magnetic nanoparticles in a liquid that looks like blood. The final section demonstrates that machines can be controlled by thoughts, or mental intention only. Patients learn to control a brain-computer interface in a process that is similar to learning a motor skill. Brain-to-brain communication is also demonstrated with the caveat that these possibilities involve ethical issues yet to be resolved.
About the series: This incredible five part series, Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain, investigates the last and greatest frontier of science, the astonishing world of the human brain.
In the 21st Century, the field of neuroscience is drawing the best and brightest from computer science, medicine, engineering, psychology, biology, genetics and ethics to study the human brain. Featuring in-depth interviews and demonstrations with neuroscientists from the country's top institutions, including MIT, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University, this incredible five part series, Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain, investigates the last and greatest frontier challenging humanity's understanding of our world - the human brain.
About the series: This incredible five part series, Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain, investigates the last and greatest frontier of science, the astonishing world of the human brain.
In the 21st Century, the field of neuroscience is drawing the best and brightest from computer science, medicine, engineering, psychology, biology, genetics and ethics to study the human brain. Featuring in-depth interviews and demonstrations with neuroscientists from the country's top institutions, including MIT, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University, this incredible five part series, Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain, investigates the last and greatest frontier challenging humanity's understanding of our world - the human brain.
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Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
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