Playing With Marbles

Everybody’s got a brain, but how do they work? To find out, we’re investigating healthy brains, dead brains, brains in jars… even the brains of TV-watching monkeys. For science!

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Season 2 Episodes

S2 E1 : One woman’s brain

For decades researchers used male bodies as the “default”, and this has led to huge research gaps in our understanding of womens’ brains…

June 20th, 2022 | 27 mins 

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S2 E2: Hormones: a love story

Puberty, pregnancy, ovulation, even love… these are all things our body regulates with hormones, and brains love hormones…

June 27th, 2022 | 31 mins

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S2 E3: Menopause and Beyond

Let’s experience menopause, migraines, and Alzheimer’s! Not exactly fun, we know, but they are very common complications of later life, so we’re going to get inside a brain that is experiencing them…

July 5th, 2022 | 28 mins

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S2 Teaser: How much do you know about the difference between male and female brains?

Let’s experience menopause, migraines, and Alzheimer’s! Not exactly fun, we know, but they are very common complications of later life…

June 17th, 2022 | 1 min 

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Season 1 Episodes

Brains, the final frontier

Every day we are learning more about the brain, but the challenges are complex and answers can’t come quickly enough. We are on a global quest to understand the brain and we believe that new ideas…

July 20th, 2021 | 1 min

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1: Nature’s hard drive

Memories are fickle. They’re so important, but so ineffable.. So how do we make memories? And what types of memory are there? We’re finding out what actually happens…

Sept 28th, 2021 | 33 mins

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2: When brains go wrong

When something goes wrong with a brain we can’t just get under the hood and poke around. So how do we figure out what’s going wrong? Well sometimes the answer to that question…

Sept 28th, 2021 | 34 mins

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3: Brains in the wild

Sometimes to really find out how brains work you have to get too close for comfort, so we’re looking for brains that have escaped their warm, cozy skulls and made their way into jars and freezers.

July 5th, 2021 | 29 mins

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