NIMH’s Thomas Insel on a New Understanding of the Brain
Director of the National Institute for Mental Health Thomas Insel gives a TED Talk on the new domain criteria research direction, and how an important first step is to reframe mental illness as brain...
View ArticleZombie Neuroscience
“Don’t kiss a zombie” is among the practical information and deadpan advice provided in this hilarious talk on Zombie Neuroscience by Shane O’Mara at TEDxDublin. A fun lecture utilizing scientific...
View ArticleDo You Spend Like a Baboon?
A great animated video explaining our evolutionary ability to process numbers, and why it’s a hazard to our wallets. Beginning with babies, researchers demonstrated how they visualized simple math...
View Article3 Steps to Change a Habit
Change Habits: Breaking Bad Behaviours by Owen Fitzpatrick is a brief and interesting animated video explaining the crux of the process. Beginning with research about our brain processes habits, then...
View ArticleWhat Makes Us Laugh?
Professor Sophie Scott’s LaughterLab at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in the UK does neuroscience research on why and how people laugh. In a project at the Royal Society Summer Science...
View ArticleRomantic Chemistry
Highlights from a talk by Larry Young about the brain chemistry of love. From bonded-for-life prairie voles to human partnerships, chemistry plays a role in romantic attraction and staying with a...
View ArticleIs There a Biological Basis of Depression?
A look at what neuroscience has learned about depression. Is there a biological basis? Far more complex than a “chemical imbalance,” this short animated video does its best to simplify scientific...
View ArticleWhy Our Brains Love Babies
A brief and interesting educational video from AsapSCIENCE explains why people are hard-wired to find babies so cute. In what’s known scientifically as “baby schema,” babies’ elements and proportions...
View ArticleBasics of Emotions in an Animation
“Alfred and Shadow” is a short animation about Alfred the owl, his Shadow, and the emotions he experiences. An easily digestible film, it shares the basics about types of emotions, and their...
View ArticleCan Electricity Supercharge Your Brain?
A new treatment trend is tCDS, or transcranial direct stimulation, using electricity to enhance mental health and relieve depression, improve sleep, and more. Or so the manufacturers claim....
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