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Episode Title: Pokémon Brain Region Reveals How Our Brains Categorize | SciShow News
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Description: Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-15 If you're a Pokémon super-fan seeing Detective Pikachu this weekend, a little bit of your brain might light up that won’t light up in the brains of those that didn’t try to catch 'em all! Find out why that's important to understanding how our brains work, and the latest breakthrough in Alzheimer's research on this week's SciShow News! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Pokémon https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2019-05/su-abr050219.php https://press.nature.com/wp-content/uploads/files/2019/04/41562_2019_592_OnlinePDF.pdf https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/behrmannlab/Publications/2002_04_Hasson_neuron.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127899/ Alzheimer’s Prions https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190501153358.htm https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/490/eaat8462 https://gizmodo.com/these-scientists-want-to-redefine-alzheimers-as-a-doubl-1834486386 https://theconversation.com/heres-what-we-think-alzheimers-does-to-the-brain-86799 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12011456


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