How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceNeuroscienceTravel into the brain to see how its network of neurons transmit your thoughts and what factors determine how quickly you think.
How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyNeuroscienceLanguageScienceThe average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second.
Elephants' Incredible Intelligence | Wild Files with Maddie Moate | BBC Earth
AdultsAnimalsFilmNatureScienceNeuroscienceThe largest land mammal, elephants have super-sized brains and display incredible emotional intelligence. In this episode of Wild Files, we get an intimate glimpse at elephants' social ties and unique character.
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
AdultsNeurosciencePsychologyScienceBiologyResearch has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
What is consciousness?
AdultsLifeScienceSelfNeuroscienceExplore the theories of human consciousness and the science of how your brain works to create a conscious experience.
Non-Invasive Brain Surgery
AdultsBiologyScienceTechnologyHealthNeuroscienceScientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.
The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning
TeachersNeuroscienceTeacher CafeEducationScienceMental HealthActivities for learning at all ages. Short stories and videos with real questions asked by kids about things everyone wants to know about.
How to Make Learning Effective
TeachersNeuroscienceTeacher CafeWritingLGBTQIAWritingWith the background on the principles and fundamentals of learning, along with the neuroscience behind it, you can get the most out of your students during class time with them.
Could You Live Without A Body?
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceNeuroscienceScienceCould uploading our consciousness to the internet be the key to living forever?
Why You Don't Want Invisibility
AdultsNeuroscienceScienceInvisibility is always part of the most desired superpowers argument, but is there more downside to it than meets the eye?
Why is it so hard to cure ALS?
AdultsHealthNeuroscienceAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called motor neuron disease and Lou Gehrig's Disease affects about two out of every 100,000 people worldwide.
Why Do We Itch?
AdultsHumanNeuroscienceHealthScienceIt's one of the most annoying sensations our bodies can feel, but does anything feel better than when you scratch an itch? Ok, maybe *some* things. But itching and scratching are up there. How does this weird sensation work? And what is itching for?
What If You Never Forgot Anything?
AdultsNeuroscienceScienceHumanHow does memory work? And how does... un-memory work? Our brain does a lot of remembering and forgetting every day, so you should probably make room for som info on how it works.
What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler
AdultsHealthHistoryNeuroscienceIn ancient Greece, the best-known remedy for a long-standing headache was to drill a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.
How does your body know you're full? - Hilary Coller
AdultsHumanNeuroscienceHealthScienceHunger claws at your belly. It tugs at your intestines, which begin to writhe, aching to be fed. Being hungry generates a powerful and often unpleasant physical sensation that's almost impossible to ignore. After you've reacted by gorging on your morning pancakes, you start to experience an opposing force: fullness. But how does your body actually know when you're full? Hilary Coller explains.
Do You Really Have Two Brains?
AdultsBiologyHumanNeuroscienceSciencePsychologyAre you a left-brained person or a right-brained person? Spoiler: You're neither. Each of us uses both sides of our brain for most of what we do. But still, there are a number of brain functions that do show lateralization, where they are localized to one side or another. Why is this? And how does it influence our definition of consciousness? People with "split brains" can help us figure it out.
Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani
AdultsPsychologySciencePhilosophySelfNeuroscienceOur bodies - the physical, biological parts of us - and our minds - the thinking, conscious aspects - have a complicated, tangled relationship. Which one primarily defines you or your self? Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? Maryam Alimardani investigates.
The science behind the Impossible Burger
AdultsCreativityFoodNeuroscienceScienceBiotechnologyThe Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.
How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene
AdultsNeuroscienceProductivityWorkEducationPsychologySelfMastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. But what does practice actually do to make us better at things? Annie Bosler and Don Greene explain how practice affects the inner workings of our brains.