A Google Map of Our Brains: The Next Chapter in Neuroscience
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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2013
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Scientists in New York City are at the center of President Obama's brain research initiative, a $100 million effort to better understand the inner workings of the human noggin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Manouche, the host of New Tech City. |
| 0:03.0 | She just won't hurt him to be over in just a moment. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm going to tell you something today. |
| 0:08.0 | And sometimes people react really weirdly to this. |
| 0:11.0 | But both of my parents are psychiatrists. |
| 0:14.0 | What's that? |
| 0:15.0 | Conducting. |
| 0:16.0 | A little dab will do you. |
| 0:18.0 | No, my parents didn't analyze me at the dinner table. |
| 0:21.0 | But yes, my mother does have a German accent. |
| 0:24.0 | As a kid, if I was sick, instead of keeping me home, |
| 0:27.0 | she would take me to the mental health center in New Jersey, |
| 0:30.0 | where she worked. |
| 0:31.0 | I'd play Gin Rummy with the receptionist, |
| 0:33.0 | eat red jello in the cafeteria, |
| 0:35.0 | and wave at all the patients. |
| 0:37.0 | My mom specialized in geriatric psychiatry. |
| 0:40.0 | So there were a lot of really sick people, |
| 0:42.0 | with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia. |
| 0:45.0 | But you know kids, nothing phases them. |
| 0:48.0 | I wasn't scared of these people or their diseases. |
| 0:51.0 | And when my mom told me about the electro-shock therapy treatment |
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