Braincast - on the frequency of Mind and Brain

Braincast - on the frequency of Mind and Brain

Braincast is about the functions, opportunities and consequences of the brain. Every episode concentrates on one topic of translated mind science plus relevant news.

Episodes

Braincast 025 - Materialism, Buddhism and Position Definitio

January 31, 2009 • 19 mins
Episode 25 is rather personal with a look behind my mental curtain: motivation and preferences, why Buddhism pops up on a regular basis and about my biggest problem on the topic. A definition of position.
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Braincast 023 - Hard-headed

January 17, 2009 • 21 mins
Planing, acting and, most of all, inhibiting – those are the main tasks of the prefrontal cortex. Additionally it has peer-to-peer connections to emotion- and social related areas. So this episode is about that part of the brain, that makes us human. An episode including bad mood and good bets.
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Braincast 023 - Driven by Emotion

December 13, 2008 • 19 mins
Emotions are not just blessing or curse, they are much more. For example one way for the brain to talk to itself – via the body. They are the source of all our decisions. And first and foremost they are a way to survive.
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Braincast 022 - Creative perception

November 28, 2008 • 18 mins
Part 2 about senses and perception is about how the brain deals with incoming data. It shows that some things simply are droped, while others are constructed. A braincast about roses, gorillas, blind spots and two self-experiments.
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Braincast 021 - Basics: Senses

November 15, 2008 • 16 mins
In dealing with reality the brain might be quite creative, but the senses are not: They send in the real world, one gig of data per second. This and other impressive numbers in Braincast 21. Plus: seeing with the tongue.
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Braincast 020 - Autists and Savants

November 1, 2008 • 16 mins
Autism is quite extreme: affected people shrink into theirselfs, live complicated rituals and have trouble understanding emotions. But out of autism can arise a real wonder: the savant syndrome, showing the real possibilities of the brain.
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Braincast 019 - Stress

October 25, 2008 • 16 mins
Stress is not just stress – it was designed to safe our life. But nowadays we even have stress with stress, and this is just sassy. In this episode you find some inner-headly backgrounds. And even some good news.
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Braincast 018 - The underestimated animal kingdom

October 11, 2008 • 15 mins
Man is the pinnacle of creation and shall rule the world – that´s how we like it to be. But the difference between us and those brute animals is not that big, as this braincast demonstrates.
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Braincast 017 - The world out there

October 4, 2008 • 16 mins
It the world out there would exist without us noticing, has been a heavy disput between philosophers for centuries. With "neurological constructivism", neuroscience found a position that offers great possibilities.
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Braincast 016 - Altruism

September 27, 2008 • 18 mins
A peaceful topic at last: altruism, fairness, kindness. From scratch healthy brains are not capable of anything else – and they don´t want to, too. An episode of bright prospects.
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Braincast 015 - Basics - Imaging Techniques

September 19, 2008 • 19 mins
How do we know what we know about the brain? And why did it become so much so fast? Braincast 15 wraps this dry topic to digest easily.
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Braincast 014 - Memory

September 13, 2008 • 18 mins
No function of the brain gets criticised more often. But the reasons are mostly wrong, nobody really wants absolute memory, as Braincast 14 shows. That memory is a quite creative affair – that would be a neat critique.
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Braincast 013 - Free will

August 30, 2008 • 17 mins
The ship of free will is sinking – at least some influential brain researchers say so. Braincast 13 examines backgrounds and backdoors of one of the most controversial topics between our ears.
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Braincast 012 - Best before

August 22, 2008 • 16 mins
For decades they told us our brains were doomed, its cells vanish and we would become more dense every day. This is not invariably the case. That and more good news in a Braincast about the date of expiry.
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Braincast 011 - Basics: Structures

August 8, 2008 • 16 mins
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.
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Braincast 010 - Development

July 25, 2008 • 18 mins
The 10th episode – a small anniversary with a closer look on the development of toddlers. It shows that TV is not that good, love is essential and experience is everything. And that even kids five months old wonder about grammatical mistakes.
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Braincast 009 - Love

July 12, 2008 • 19 mins
Real feelings at Braincast: vital, neurological and hormonal insights about infatuation, love and being dumped. Featuring voles and fidelity, homosexuality and hypothalamus, orgasms in scanners and bad news for men.
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Braincast 008 - Basics: Brain Cells

July 12, 2008 • 18 mins
This Braincast looks deep into the structure of our brain: what do brain cells look like, how do they operate, how do they communicate and – just a tiny start – how do meaning and decission emerge from that?
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Braincast 007 - The Phantom Body

June 21, 2008 • 16 mins
Are we our body? Or does it just carry us through the world? Braincast 7 is about this internal relationship of brain, body and mind. This is much more complex than it feels like, and has some strange side-effects, e.g. an orgasm in a foot.
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Braincast 006 - Reward System

June 7, 2008 • 16 mins
Man is driven by emotions. So the reward system promises heavenly joy once we reach our goal. This makes it rather a motivational system – and it´s one of the best ideas of evolution.
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