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Trailblazers in neuroscience Dr. Christof Koch and Dr. John Donoghue reveal mind-blowing insights on how the brain turns thought into voluntary behaviors and how that knowledge is empowering victims of neurological trauma with regained physical abilities.

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[ibrahimashkar]

National Geographic Live is the best thing ever please put more of those great videos !!! i can't get enough of them !!

[ronusa]

Well done love this so much! Thanks for posting.

[moiquiregardevideo]

I lived for 3 years with a VA who has parkinson and got the DBS (deep brain stimulator) operation about 5 years ago.
In his case, the dopamine quickly goes from too low, making him paralyzed to excess of dopamine making him move back and forth with wide angle motion.
The symptoms are often similar to being drunk, so I wander if the cerebellum is impacted by parkinson. I don't suspect the cerebellum need dopamine, I suspect that the commands sent from the motor center to the cerebellum is intercepted by those brain area that are lacking dopamine.

[enamaas]

Well, I'm convinced the brains controls every move of our body, concience or sub- concience. Also great believer in selfhealing even healing others, just by using your brain. There are very special people on this planet! Some even don't know how precious they are!

[Vysakh_Namboothiri]

wow Amazed to see that, All the best .May god bless all

[bayezidhtanu]

WOahh!!! It's not only amaaazing but also toooo encouraging :)

[MsGnor]

This is so moving. Thanks so much for sharing xxx

[Silverio]

Great absolutely great. I've been researching with silent audios and results are amazing, it happens that when you start a silent audio your whole body, brain, medulla and the whole nervous system actually feel the vibrations; and start to experience them as electric responses running all along
And you notice how they move all along the body, but there's more you also experience the activation of your glands the whole endocrine system active; so you receive a delicious chemical bath of endorphins, hormones and neuropeptides
The results nothing short of feeling so much better, healing, and the manifestation of your mental and emotional talents doing anything else than listening with your whole body

[zingerusana]

Yet, there are still those who think we came about just like that, by accident or direction-less evolution. What madness!

[IanLindstrom]

Wow. I can't imagine being paralyzed, much less _regaining_ the ability to do something.

[pranavpta]

This is called the real science. Making impossible a possible..

[CerebralTripz]

Loved this.Thing is even having all my functions, this further proves that we as humans can manipulate our own body to even heal those without the use of machines.I mean...if you re going that deep.I think that is ore realistic and worth looking into with great detail.Why look at the brain and complement its awe in power and not give air time to the real possibility of self healing in a way thats as easy as breathing? 

[DraPatriciaMello]

Excelente aula e gráficos perfeitos!!! 

[someshkatiyar]

Both the Jennifer Anniston signals were different because u brought the picture the very first time and brain connected the image with memory, the next time u showed it ( when she was married ), the brain just picked it up from a fresh memory saved a few seconds ago of recognising Jennifer by seeing a picture

[hasansazlian]

We, human being, trying endlessly, with every possible efffort and capability to understand ourselves;also asking repeatedly, why we're here, for what's purpose we're here, Are there another kind of intellegence out there or we're elone in the vast, bounderless universe.I hope someday we will more understand, thanks to our research in neurology, initially.

[davidkathurima]

next time you do a brain-cursor experiment, use would be interesting to see what happens

[wingman]

I'm no scientist, (and I'm not saying I don't care about the kind of problems presented in this video) but if that last device shown (the one on the skull) evolved so that it could receive and stimulate most neuron signals just outside of our heads, wouldn't that be close to an actual VR machine? ( I'm just a guy with wishful thinking. Please tell me anything wrong/right with my thought I just want to know more.)

[Fredricjakobsen]

Nå har mensker noe og tenke på nå omm det Di har lært er ekte eller ikke. Og vordan finner dere det ut vist alt det dere har lært er feil i lærebøker og på Internett og Di 2 tingene stemmer åverens va gjør dere da menske?

[Fredricjakobsen]

Tenk for en DNA database dere har nå og for et stort mønster?

[anthonysummers]

Just don't give criminals the ability to do this or read are Electronic grids we would be screwed they would know every thing passwords all that in neuron