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• Charlie Rose Brain Series
  http://www.charlierose.com/history.html
• Consciousness
• Early life experience
• Microorganisms
• Networks
• Neurobiology
• NIH BRAIN Initiative
  "On April 2, 2013, the White House announced an initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN), which includes the participation of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support and coordinate research on how the brain functions over an organism's lifespan. "This multiagency Initiative is led by NSF along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and includes private partners. It holds great promise for addressing fundamental questions about healthy brain function, advancing treatments for brain disorders or traumatic brain injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" technologies to meet our future needs as a society."
• *PBS - The Brain, with David Eagleman
• American Academy of Pediatrics technical report on Pesticide Exposure in Children
  James R. Roberts, MD, MPH, Catherine J. Karr, MD, PhD, Council on Environmental Health. Published online November 26, 2012 Pediatrics Vol. 130 No. 6 December 1, 2012, pp. e1765 -e1788. Errata: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/5/1013.4.full.
  
  
• A New Show Goes Inside The Teenage Brain
  WAMU 1A, Jan 11, 2018. Host: Joshua Johnson. Journalist Dina Temple-Raston is asking teenagers an age-old question: What were you thinking? But she’s not asking about a reckless decision that led to a fender-bender with the family car. Instead, she’s talking to teenagers who decided to join ISIS, or who brought guns to school. In her new podcast, “What Were You Thinking? Inside the Adolescent Brain,” Temple-Raston uses psychology, neuroscience and conversation to get inside teenage minds. We talk to her about the series, and her reporting on how the next generation thinks. Guest: Dina Temple-Raston NPR counterterrorism correspondent; host of "What Were You Thinking? Inside The Adolescent Brain"; author of "The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror"
• Daniel Pink's 'When' Shows the Importance Of Timing Throughout Life (8 min)
  NPR All Things Considered, January 17, 2018 NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with author Daniel Pink about his new book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. In his book, Pink examines the importance of timing in various aspects of life.
• David Linden - 'Compass Of Pleasure': Why Some Things Feel So Good
  David Linden, 'Compass Of Pleasure': Why Some Things Feel So Good
  NPR, June 23, 2011 1:15 PM ET
  
• Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society
  Several keynotes from the Society for Neuroscience
• Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society: Neuroscience 201
  Robert J. Shiller, PhD, presented "Animal Spirits: How Human Behavior Drives the Economy," with Society for Neuroscience President Susan Amara and neuroscientists Antonio Rangel and Wolfram Schultz on November 12 at Neuroscience 2011 in Washington, DC. Shiller, an American economist, academic, and best-selling author, studies how psychological factors influence decision-making in the economic arena and the impact of group dynamics on financial markets.
• Diane Rehm Show - Daniel Levitin: The Organized Mind
  Diane Rehm Show, 9/10/2015 "Texts, emails, cellphone messages, tweets, news alerts, apps and fit bits. We are expected to process much more information than ever before. It is no surprise that the average American reports feeling worn out by the effort to keep up with everything. In a new book, the best-selling neuroscientist Daniel Levitin says new research on memory and attention can help us learn how to navigate this tremendous amount of data each day. He argues that with a little effort, we can regain a sense of mastery in how we organize our lives in the age of information overload." Guest: Daniel Levitin professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University; Dean of Social Sciences, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute (San Francisco); author, "This is Your Brain on Music." Guest host: Susan Page
• Donald R. Kinder - Politics and the Life Cycle
  Politics and the Life Cycle
  
  Donald R. Kinder
  Science 30 June 2006;312:1905-1908
  
• Edward Vul et al. Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition
  Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social
  Cognition
  Edward Vul, Christine Harris, Piotr Winkielman, & Harold Pashler
  Perspectives on Psychological Science 2009;4(3):274-
  The article was formerly known as "Voodoo Correlations in Social
  Neuroscience.’’
  
• Elizabeth Pennisi - Baboon Watch
  Amboseli National Park, Kenya
  Science 17 October 2014;346:292-295
• How Does The Brain Work | Science documentary (54 min)
  Nova Science Now, with Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• In the Light of Evolution: Volume VII: The Human Mental Machinery
  In the Light of Evolution: Volume VII: The Human Mental Machinery (2014)
  978-0-309-29640-3
  
  Authors
  Camilo J. Cela-Conde, Raul Gutierrez Lombardo, John C. Avise, and Framcosco J. Ayala, Editors; Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences
  
  Humans possess certain unique mental traits. Self-reflection, as well as ethic and aesthetic values, is among them, constituting an essential part of what we call the human condition. The human mental machinery led our species to have a self-awareness but, at the same time, a sense of justice, willing to punish unfair actions even if the consequences of such outrages harm our own interests. Also, we appreciate searching for novelties, listening to music, viewing beautiful pictures, or living in well-designed houses.
• Laura L. Carstensen - The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development
  The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development
  Laura L. Carstensen
  Science 30 June 2006;312:1913-1915
  
  Abstract
  
  The subjective sense of future time plays an essential role in human motivation. Gradually, time left becomes a better predictor than chronological age for a range of cognitive, emotional, and motivational variables. Socioemotional selectivity theory maintains that constraints on time horizons shift motivational priorities in such a way that the regulation of emotional states becomes more important than other types of goals. This motivational shift occurs with age but also appears in other contexts (for example, geographical relocations, illnesses, and war) that limit subjective future time.
  
• Neuroscience and political science
• NPR. Stories about brain
  Also, stories about the hidden brain at http://www.npr.org/tags/125936630/the-hidden-brain
• Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans (TED)
  At Stanford University, primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a fascinating and funny look at human behaviors which the rest of the animal kingdom would consider bizarre. Stanford University · 37:26 · Filmed Sep 2009
• Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice
  Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice
  Dale J. Langford, Sara E. Crager, Zarrar Shehzad, et al.
  Science 30 June 2006;312:1967-1970
  
  Abstract: Empathy is thought to be unique to higher primates, possibly to humans alone. We report the modulation of pain sensitivity in mice produced solely by exposure to their cagemates, but not to strangers, in pain. Mice tested in dyads and given an identical noxious stimulus displayed increased pain behaviors with statistically greater co-occurrence, effects dependent on visual observation. When familiar mice were given noxious stimuli of different intensities, their pain behavior was influenced by their neighbor's status bidirectionally. Finally, observation of a cagemate in pain altered pain sensitivity of an entirely different modality, suggesting that nociceptive mechanisms in general are sensitized.
• TED - How your brain constructs reality (7 talks)
  Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (21 min) Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us. Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning (6 min) Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself? (11 min) Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable insights. In this introspective, personal talk, he challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality. Keith Barry: Brain magic (20 min) First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies — in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic. Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception (19 min) Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things — from alien abductions to dowsing rods — boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. Al Seckel: Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think (14 min) Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it. Vilayanur Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization (7 min) Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it.
• Thinking Fast Makes Changing Slow: Human Thought Processes Interfere with Achieving Diversity
  Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at Boston University School of Public Health
• Will we ever understand the brain? (1:20:00)
  Symposium at the California Academy of Sciences
• Wolfram Schultz, neuroscientist
  Interested in consciousness and free will