We all die. But it's not exactlyRehabilitation by «the power of thought». How knowledge about imagination is used
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yourself a neighboring plot. But how to train the brain and create new neural connections if the limb is paralyzed? It turns out that imagination can be enough. Why for our brain to imagine an action and perform an action are almost the same tasks.
Neurophysiologist, candidate of biological sciences, an employee of the Skoltech Center for Neurobiology and Neurorehabilitation the imagination that scientists see with MRI, and can dreams and hallucinations also count as imagination? Lev answered these questions in a previous episode titled«The main ability of the human brain? What is imagination.»
To learn how modern science explains the emergence of consciousness in humans, whether it is possible to teach a monkey to speak, and what sensory deprivation is, you can in the episode «Language, memory and voices in the head: what is consciousness?».< br />
Do nerve cells recover, why they cannot be treated, and how the blood-brain barrier works, you can find out in the episode «Why neurons die and whether neurodegenerative diseases can be cured «.
Why create banks of brain samples, and why study a dead brain, we told in the episode «MRI will not show this: why do scientists store and cut into pieces our brains?».
< strong>Episode prepared jointly with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
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Episode prepared by: Artyom Buftyak, Artur Arushanyan
Sound engineer: Anastasia Panioti
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