Who Am I? (And Who Are You?)
Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist who has spent his life researching the functioning of the brain. His research…
Tag: Brain
The Roots of Rights
On December 10th, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Nowadays,…
Seeing is Perceiving
In the interview featured in this clip David Bohm makes the point that the more views we have…
American Psycho?
In his book, The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl examines the incidence and diagnosis of schizophrenia in the United…
All Change…
On the 6th of December, 1992 racial riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Ayodhya,…
Your Most Important Decision
Tell me, what is it you plan to do …
Ever wondered what babies think about?
I didn’t see this when I was writing about creativity – it is brilliant – watch it if…
Learning to See
Until Helen Keller was six, she was locked in a frightening world. Blind and deaf after a serious…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (9)
Language and reading seem to us in our society to be interchangeable but while language exists all over…
Interesting Discoveries About the Brain (7)
Though the biggest part of our brains are composed of structural cells called glial cells and astrocytes, in…