March 1, 2019
For the past 25 years or so, TED Talks have been a great source of accessible information about cutting-edge research on the brain and its development over a lifespan. We’ve featured several on our blog and in other communications. Here, we’ve gathered a few of our favorites together so you can find them all in one place! We’ll add to this repository periodically as we come across new ones. And if you have a favorite that you think is worth adding, let us know!
Temple Grandin: The World Needs All Kinds of Minds
Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight
Helen Fisher: The Brain in Love
Ron Gutman: The Hidden Power of Smiling
Christopher DeCharms: A Look Inside the Brain in Real Time
Read Montague: What we’re learning from 5,000 brains
Daniel Wolpert: The Real Reason For Brains
Vilayanur Ramachandran: 3 Clues to Understanding Your Brain
Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut
Gregory Petsko: The Coming Neurological Epidemic
Daniel Tammet: Different Ways of Knowing
Exploring the Rewiring of the Brain
Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+
