#10: Kartik Sreenivasan, Ph.D - The newest research on neuroscience and how you can use it

Kartik Sreenivasan is an expert in psychology and neuroscience. He has a bachelor in psychology from Yale University and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a research assistance at Yale University, guest lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley and now works as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi. Kartik shares insight from the newest research on neuroscience and how you can use that in your life. Sh ow notes: 1.07: Kartiks way into psychology and neuroscience 2.04: What neuroscience is 2.46: Difference between short term and long term memory 5.13: Executive function and short term memory 6.50: How much data you can keep in your mind 8.02: How to remember more things 9.04: The memory palace technique 12.08: The connection between the microbiome and brain 16.26: How to use the new knowledge about the brain 17.52: How our view of the view is very limited 20.10: How our long term memories are distorted 21.30: The problem with eyewitness testimony 22.02: How we can manipulate with memories 23.04: Why it is a good thing we can change our memories 25.36: New research on consciousness 34.01: The importance of being social for your brain health Final recommendations from Kartik: Find something you do that gets you so excited you can get other people excited about it. When you start to feel really comfortable professionally it is time to move on to keep challenging yourself Links to Kartik: http://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/faculty/sreenivasan/ Twitter: @sreenivasanlab