How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are - With Kevin Mitchell

How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are - With Kevin Mitchell

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Heritability of Functional Connectivity

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Heritability of Functional Connectivity

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How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are - With Kevin Mitchell

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 What makes you you?
  3. 3 And in the Physical Structures of our Brains
  4. 4 Differences Between Humans and Chimps
  5. 5 Early Embryonic Development
  6. 6 Brain Development
  7. 7 1000s of types of neurons
  8. 8 Organised into microcircuits
  9. 9 Connected into larger brain systems
  10. 10 Genetic Program for Making a Human Brain
  11. 11 Genes are physical stretches of DNA
  12. 12 Genes encode proteins
  13. 13 Proteins are molecular machines
  14. 14 Molecular Machinery: A Tour of the Protein Data Bank
  15. 15 Brain structure in twins
  16. 16 Can reconstruct tracts, examine connectivity
  17. 17 Heritability of Brain Structural Connectivity
  18. 18 Heritability of Functional Connectivity
  19. 19 Family environment has little effect on traits
  20. 20 Intrinsic Developmental Variation
  21. 21 Neuromodulators gate synaptic plasticity
  22. 22 Neuromodulator circuits differ between people
  23. 23 Subjective Experience Gates Plasticity
  24. 24 Genetic Effects on Experience

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