Diane Benscoter: How cults rewire the brain

[embed]http://www.ted.com/talks/ex_moonie_diane_benscoter_how_cults_think?language=en[/embed]

What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NubJ2ThK_U[/embed]

Controlling genes with your thoughts

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-genes-thoughts.html

michelangelosbrain

http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/michelangelosbrain.html

How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

Furl: The EEG-Responsive, Soft Robotics Future Of Architecture

These soft robotic components allow for unprecedented ability to bend, fold, change shape, and otherwise adapt to the needs of building occupants. The wagging arms are programmed to read human brain waves.

how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right?

Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right? http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/buddhism_and_the_brain/

Brain Waves For Beginners

http://www.beyondthemind.com/extras/meditation-the-brain/brain-waves-for-beginners/

brainblogger.com

Dr. Shaheen Lakhan serves as editor of Brain Blogger and executive director of the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation (GNIF) http://brainblogger.com/

Mind and Brain Blog

The Blog of Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Gründer http://www.mind-and-brain-blog.de/fuer-studierende/

Professor of Experimental Neuropsychiatry at the RWTH Aachen University and Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the University Hospital Aachen.

Your brain on improv

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds. (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.)

http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv?utm_source=direct-on.ted.com&awesm=on.ted.com_a0VbB&utm_campaign=&utm_content=awesm-publisher&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share

How The Heart-Brain Connection Works

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Meditation can Change your Brain Structure

Whenever you engage in a behavior over and over again, this can lead to changes in your brain. and:

27 minutes of mindfulness meditation a day changes brain structure

What happens when you remove the hippocampus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkaXNvzE4pk#t=214

Will Brain-To-Brain Instant Messaging Eventually Replace Phones?

Decades from now, maybe we'll forget about smartphones and start communicating via electronic telepathy. In a new experiment, scientists were able to show that one person could communicate to another--thousands of miles away--without typing or talking.....