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The Astonishing Effects of Exercise on Your Brain

What changes take place in the brain during and after exercise? How does exercise support deep and focused learning? In this Dana Foundation Brain Lecture, hosted by Secret Science Club, neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki answers these questions and more.

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Memories, Decision-making, and Motivation

In this Dana Foundation Brain Lecture, hosted by Secret Science Club, neuroscientist Daphna Shohamy dives deep into the human brain to explore the links between memories, decision-making, and motivation.
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Frontal Lobe Deficits and Financial Scams

Q&A with Natalie Denburg, Ph.D.

Dana Grantee Natalie Denburg studies what makes some older adults more susceptible to fraud, and finds it’s probably not early dementia.
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Aging and Decision-Making: A Neuroanatomical Approach

Diminished decision-making appears to be linked not just to a number (your age) but to specific changes in gray matter volume in certain brain areas.
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How We Decide: The Neuronal Reward Signal

Using electrophysiologic measures of neuronal activity, we tested theories of reward and decision-making and have found neuronal mechanisms in circuits including dopamine neurons, the striatum, the frontal cortex, and the amygdala that reflect reward and decisions.
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Understanding Human Decision-Making: Neuroeconomics

In the past few decades, neuroscientists have made strides towards understanding where in the brain subjective value is represented and steps towards understanding how it is constructed.
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Who’s in Charge?

Q&A with Sameer Sheth, M.D., Ph.D.

Sameer Sheth's discovery of conflict-sensitive cells in the cortex helps shed light on the neural circuitry of cognitive control.
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Discovering that Rational Economic Man Has a Heart

To what extent is our economic behavior a rational weighing of alternatives based on our self- interest? Certainly, economists and public policy makers have relied on the concept of self-interest to interpret and predict how people will behave in the marketplace. But why, then, do areas of our brain associated with emotions become so active when we make economic decisions? The author analyzes what research on cooperation and fairness tells us about our real-life decisions when getting and spending.

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