Braincast is about the functions, opportunities and consequences of the brain. Every episode concentrates on one topic of translated mind science plus relevant news.
Episode 25 is rather personal with a look behind my mental curtain: motivation and preferences, why Buddhism pops up on a regular basis and about my b...
Planing, acting and, most of all, inhibiting – those are the main tasks of the prefrontal cortex. Additionally it has peer-to-peer connections to emot...
Emotions are not just blessing or curse, they are much more. For example one way for the brain to talk to itself – via the body. They are the source o...
Part 2 about senses and perception is about how the brain deals with incoming data. It shows that some things simply are droped, while others are cons...
Part 2 about senses and perception is about how the brain deals with incoming data. It shows that some things simply are droped, while others are cons...
In dealing with reality the brain might be quite creative, but the senses are not: They send in the real world, one gig of data per second. This and o...
Autism is quite extreme: affected people shrink into theirselfs, live complicated rituals and have trouble understanding emotions. But out of autism c...
Stress is not just stress – it was designed to safe our life. But nowadays we even have stress with stress, and this is just sassy. In this episode yo...
Man is the pinnacle of creation and shall rule the world – that´s how we like it to be. But the difference between us and those brute animals is not t...
It the world out there would exist without us noticing, has been a heavy disput between philosophers for centuries. With "neurological constructivism"...