Do we all listen the same? How do we listen? Can noise make us sick? Do we all lose hearing ability over the years? Where do the rhythm and the music come from? Why do we all like music?Bruno Grossi plays with the idea of ??conducting sound experiments while Hernán Moreno invites us to imagine the lives of people without hearing.From the hand of Rodolfo Llinás, we know the functioning of our auditory system and the effect of sound on our brain...

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche discusses sensory deprivation with R. Clay Reid, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard, comparing its use as means of stimulating the brain (as in Bon and Buddhist ‘dark retreat practice’) with its use as a torture practice. "Dark retreat" (mun mtshams) is apowerfulmeans in which special circumstances—both physical and psychological—are created in order to enhance particular meditation and yogic practices. This form...

Do you believe in ghosts, or do you think these supernatural beings are a figment of one's imagination? Psychologically speaking, are they just hallucinations? Whether or not these entities truly exist cannot exactly be proven. While most of these illusions are a result of how our brain and eyes respond to each other, we have also learned to create many tricks through science, technology, and art. It is fascinating to discover and relearn these old...

Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of this two-part series, learn what the latest research shows about how your brain processes and shapes the world around you, and discover the surprising tricks and shortcuts your brain takes to help you survive.

In this episode, Bill Moyers spends several weeks with two therapists who are treating patients without any drugs or surgery. Jon Kabat-Zinn runs a stress reduction clinic in the middle of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, which involves Eastern meditation techniques. And at the Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, Dr. David Spiegal is helping a group of women with metastatic breast cancer speak to each other...

What are the organs of taste and smell, and how do they work together? Learn about the tongue’s functions of taste, an anatomical description of smell, and an explanation of their roles in tasting and smelling!

Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues to Duke University neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains that makes some of us upend tradition and most of us follow the herd?

The human body is truly extraordinary and rarely more so than in its ability to take care of itself. In this episode, we look at how we can optimise our health and maximise our own powers. With the help of our trademark, state of the art, scientific explanations. We meet a master of meditation and also some children just starting mindfulness classes, a psychiatrist able to hypnotise himself as well as a therapist using hypnosis as a form of anaesthetic...

Based on Dr. Norman Doidge’s book, THE BRAIN’S WAY OF HEALING describes the birth a new kind of medicine that combines the best of cutting edge Western brain science and holistic insights from traditional Eastern medicine—which has long understood that the mind, and energy, has a key role to play in healing. It uses the most challenging cases to show us that far from something that is inaccessible, locked inside the skull, unreachable, the brain...

"The Divided Brain" is a mind-altering odyssey about one scientist's quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental, and social issues.