Daily TED Talk – Gregory Petsko on the Coming Neurological Epidemic

This week I’m posting a favorite brain-related TED video each day. In this eye-opening 4 minute talk from TED 2008, biochemist Gregory Petsko argues that between now and 2050, we’ll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, as the world’s population ages.

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Posted February 10, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends

Daily TED Talk – Michael Merzenich on Re-wiring the Brain

This week something really neat is happening in Long Beach, California. It’s the annual TED Conference- a meeting of some of the world’s great minds of science, technology, design, and entertainment. While not all of us are able to attend the very exclusive TED Conference, we can all benefit from the wonderful videos they post [...]

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Posted February 9, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies