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I'm your host, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Omanastrophysicist and Director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium

at the American Museum of Natural History.

The following show is the second part of a live show we recorded on February 24, 2014,

at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, known to locals as BAM.

In addition to my co-host, comedian Eugene Merman, we were joined on stage that night

by neuroscientist Heather Berlin.

Bill Nye, the science guy, comedian Michael E. in black, the actor Paul Rudd,

and star of the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, Mayim Bialek.

NASA did a study on neuroplasticity, your brain and space.

Okay, don't you have brain-backed space.

So in space, you are in zero G and so in zero G, your sense of balance, which requires

your body's awareness of gravity, other things, your vision, your sense of day and night,

because in space, if you're orbiting Earth, the sun rises and sets every 45 minutes.

So this can totally mess with your rhythms.

And they did a study and they found out that the brain has plasticity to it, where in

fact you will completely adapt to those changed conditions.

Not only that, the brain builds new brain cell and in some cases permanently responds to

this environment.

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