Up To Date | Snail Memory Transplants, Eyes In The Back Of Your Head, and Treating Epilepsy with CBD

Inquiring Minds

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week: There are reports that scientists have ‘transferred a memory' in snails—what does the research actually say?; we examine a study that suggests people can form a “sphere a sensitivity” around their heads; and we look at new research on using Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant as treatment for a severe form of epilepsy.Links mentioned:https://www.inquisitr.com/4898738/we-have-eyes-in-the-back-of-the-head-study-shows/http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476http://www.psypost.org/2018/05/cannabidiol-significantly-reduces-seizures-patients-severe-form-epilepsy-51258Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Friday, May 18th, 2018, and you're listening to Up to Date, our weekly recap of science
0:07.1	news. I'm And I'm Kishore Hary. Hey, guess what we're not going to talk about?
0:12.5	I don't know. What are we not going to talk about? Yanni and Laurel. It's done.
0:16.4	Thank goodness. It's over. It's a mover. But I do want to talk about senses. Okay.
0:21.7	You released that awesome video this week, which is hopefully a first in a series of videos on, um, and you basically
0:27.8	talked about how we don't have five senses. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's a new series we're
0:30.9	developing called Brain Dive. And, uh, there's some, there's, there's two more that we finished, and then there's a whole bunch more in the works. Okay. So let's take it even farther.
0:38.4	You said we have more than five senses, and there's so many that we take for granted.
0:42.5	Well, there was a new study out this week that was led by Professor Satoshi Shiori from the
0:47.6	Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University.
0:51.9	Say that two times fast.
0:54.0	He set up basically a series of monitors surrounding an individual.
0:58.1	So imagine almost like a hexagonal shape of monitors surrounding you.
1:02.0	And you'd play like letters on those monitors.
1:04.8	There'd be some sort of distractions on some of them.
1:07.6	And basically you'd have to find the letter that was a target.
1:11.6	And oftentimes that letter would be behind you.
1:14.2	You'd have to turn around.
1:15.2	You have to find it.
1:16.5	And so the idea behind this is as people did it over and over again and they would change
1:21.1	up sort of the spatial dynamics and positions of some of those monitors, they will
1:26.6	able to find that letter quicker and quicker,
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