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The Theory of Everything: It's Called Motor Neuron Disease
The doctor explains to Stephen Hawking that Motor Neuron Disease is affecting his ability to use any muscle activity, such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing. The signals that tell the muscles to move are disrupted, and the result is gradual muscle decay. -
Brainchild: Memory
Experts explain what would happen if we did not have any memory and what happens in our brain in order to store information and memories. Memory is an aspect of the brain that makes us fundamentally human and enables us to remember important ideas and lessons to keep us safe. -
TED-Ed: What Makes Muscles Grow?
Jeffrey provides an overview of muscles and explains how they help our bodies move. He then describes how muscles grow in size and mentions that muscles need more than activity to grow: they also need proper nutrition and rest. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNBC News Learn: Muscle Memory, or Nevous System Memory
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Neuroscience can help an athlete perform better at the Olympics, instead of relying solely on phsycial conditioning. It can active muscle memory, so the athletes' body can go into auto pilot and perform its best. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNBC News Learn: Mystery of the Brain
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The brain is not yet understood by scientists completely. In 2013, the Brain Initiative was put forth and allocated $1 billion in research towards neuroscience to understand the brain more. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNBC News Learn: Brain-Computer Interface
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Brain-Computer Interface is a way that the brain waves are monitored and tracked to control activity on a computer. These applications can be used to control characters in video games and to control prosthetic body parts. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNBC News Learn: The Brain's Ability to Process Information
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Researchers are trying to understand how the brain processes important and unimportant information. The brain has to process many sensations, feelings and thoughts and scientists want to know how the brain knows how to filter out essential and nonessential data. -
Sign in or create an account to view this clipNBC News Learn: The Brain and Sleep
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Researchers are trying to understand how the brain functions during sleep. All animals sleep and have a circadian clock. This clock tells the body when to sleep and when to wake.
