Hollywood helps brain scientists probe thoughts

About this episode

This episode discusses how films assist neuroscientists in understanding brain activity and thought processes, along with various breakthroughs in neuroscience.

This month, how films are helping neuroscientists link brain activity patterns to specific thought processes, a breakthrough in managing opiate overdose, a technique to study animal teamwork, extracting more information from brain scan data, and how childhood adversity blunts later fear responses... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

People in this episode

Host: Dr Chris Smith

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• brain activity
• opiate overdose
• animal teamwork
• childhood adversity
• fear responses

Keywords

• neuroscience
• brain activity patterns
• opiate overdose
• animal teamwork
• childhood adversity
• fear responses
• brain scan data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Naked Scientists

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