Brain magic. What's brain magic all about?

The new brain is actually kind of easier than the old brain.

Some people say, brains can't understand brains.

So the outer part of that brain is the neocortex.

And after all, we are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain.

You're more complicated than your brain. You've got a brain.

This is not a real brain. This is a picture of one, a line drawing.

They have the same brain, and the same EEG.

Kim Gorgens Protecting the brain against concussion

Neocortex means new layer. It is a new layer on top of your brain.

The big brain integrates signals, which come from the running programs of the lower brain, But subsumption means that the higher brain can interfere with the lower.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

Now in this early period of plasticity the brain actually changes outside of a learning context.

And so as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex. And the neocortex is just memorizing.

Rebuilding the Brain

Think of the big brain.

Now wait a minute, you may say, how can you go straight to controlling the brain without understanding it first?

And our brains our celebrated brains reflect a drainage of a tidal marsh.

And the brain started to fold in on itself, and that's why the neocortex is so highly convoluted.

And that's another way of saying the brain has strategies that define the significance of the input to the brain.

Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain

Here's my brain.

He's seeing his own brain.

And so it gets down to the brain.

Their brains on average, by the end, were bigger than yours and mine in this room today.

So faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong.

When we think of brain, we of course imagine our own brain.

So in order to have a conscious mind, you have a self within the conscious mind.

If the electrical signals create a brain disorder, electro stimulation can overcome that disorder by acting on the brain's neurons.

My career path led me to become a computational neuroscientist, so in my day job, I create computer models of the brain to try to understand how the brain makes predictions, how the brain makes decisions, how the brain learns and so on.

We're also selecting for brains in which we can get the tissue, we can get consent to take the tissue within 24 hours of time of death.

I do two things I design mobile computers and I study brains.

It's all about cortical processing and forebrain specialization.

To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly.

Because brains are expensive.

And so your brain is fooled.

Where is it inside the neocortex?

Michael Merzenich on re wiring the brain

Healing the Depressed Brain

Be reasonable, Fontaine.

Anyone who gets up and tells you their theory about how the brain works and doesn't tell you exactly how it's working in the brain and how the wiring works in the brain, it is not a theory.

Not all species on our planet have brains, so if we want to know what the brain is for, let's think about why we evolved one.

It makes the brain inherently robust.

It's like three millimeters in the middle of the brain.

But what it means to have a brain there is that, not only the big brain has to talk with the food, the food has to talk with the brain, because we have to learn actually how to talk to the brains.