Braincast 011 - Basics: Structures

Limbic system, amygdala or neocortex – what does that actually mean? In Braincast 11 we are talking structure and layout of the brain. It might be a little dry. But it is imporatant.

MP3 File Duration: 16:12

One last time I´ll take two weeks off, but I leave you this great series of lectures of
Columbia University

NEWS

• Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
  
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Thinking about Morality
  
• Pathogens and Prayer
  
• To Sleep, Perchance to Forget
  
• Men do everything they do in order to get laid
  
• Why we think we're better than the rest - it's not all vanity
  
• Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
  
• Decision Making in the Brain: Eavesdropping on Neurons
  
• The Nose, an Emotional Time Machine
  
• Madness: Price of a Big Brain?
  
• Folklore gets it wrong on love matches
  
• Paralysed by humour? Don't make me laugh
  
• Eat less, weigh more
  
• Behavioral therapy can reverse chronic fatigue syndrome and increase prefrontal volume
  
• Mind games reveal people who are 'blind' to trust
  

SHOWNOTES
This episdode´s soundtrack starts with Christophe Goze and Breathing – beautiful as always. The second, rather quite title is David by Gary. Last, an easy listenig piece: Just Gone by Electrix.