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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...

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Zombie 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...

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Do 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...

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3 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...

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What 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...

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Romantic 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...

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Is 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...

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Why 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...

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Basics 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...

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Can 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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