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How We Celebrate Independence Day in Greece - 200th Anniversary Edition! | Easy Greek 99
How We Celebrate Independence Day in Greece - 200th Anniversary Edition! | Easy Greek 99
Easy Greek is a project to help you learn Greek in an authentic and fun way. We interview people in the streets of Athens and other...
Easy Greek is a project to help you learn Greek in an authentic and fun way. We interview people in the streets of Athens and other...
Barcroft Media
Paralysis Didn’t Stop Me Becoming A Ballet Dancer
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - MARCH 06: A 17-YEAR-OLD girl with paralysed arms has sworn that she’ll never let her disability stop her from dancing. Sarah Todd Hammer, from Atlanta, was just eight years old when she developed acute flaccid...
Next Animation Studio
Paralyzed rats able to walk again
Paralyzed rats are able to walk again after being treated with a combination of stimulation from drugs and electrical impulses with rehabilitation therapy. For the experiment, researchers at the University of Zurich and the Ecole...
JJ Medicine
Gastroparesis (Stomach Paralysis) | Causes and Risk Factors, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Gastroparesis (Stomach Paralysis) | Causes and Risk Factors, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Gastroparesis literally means “stomach paralysis” or “stomach weakness”, and involves delayed gastric emptying. There are...
Gastroparesis literally means “stomach paralysis” or “stomach weakness”, and involves delayed gastric emptying. There are...
JJ Medicine
Bell’s Palsy (Facial Paralysis) Signs & Symptoms (& Why They Occur)
Bell’s Palsy (Facial Paralysis) Signs & Symptoms (& Why They Occur)
Bell Palsy is a condition involving paralysis of the facial nerve (Cranial nerve VII), which is responsible for facial movements and expressions, taste...
Bell Palsy is a condition involving paralysis of the facial nerve (Cranial nerve VII), which is responsible for facial movements and expressions, taste...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding Pins and Needles: What's Really Going On?
In this video, the speaker explains what pins and needles (paresthesia) are and how they occur, focusing on transient paresthesia caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve. The video includes a detailed anatomical explanation and a...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - Introduction to T.S. Eliot
It is our pleasure to introduce one of the most important poets of the English-speaking canon: T.S. Eliot. Learn about his background, context and how he became the ‘voice of the Lost Generation’. We’ll also discuss Modernism and some...
Professor Dave Explains
Poliomyelitis (Poliovirus)
Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by the poliovirus, which has the ability to infect motor neurons in the spinal cord and cause paralysis. American President Franklin Roosevelt was famously crippled by polio. The poliovirus exists in a...
Visual Learning Systems
Healthy Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Common Problems of the Nervous System
This program explores the essential components and functions of the nervous system while also investigating the endocrine system. The following parts of the nervous system are illustrated through colorful graphics: brain, spinal cord,...
National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability
How To: Choose a Wheelchair
If you have a student who must use a wheelchair throughout the school day, you may want to offer this video as a resource for both their enrichment as well as a means of support. Mary Allison Cook, a young 27-year old woman who has used...
Veritasium
Paralysed Rats Made To Walk Again
The cure for paralysis seems to be some electrical stimulation and a little bit of chocolate. A video presentation examines work done in Switzerland that successfully allowed paralyzed rats to walk again. Electrical stimulation allows...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Prialt Blocks Motor Synapse in Fish
Have you ever wondered how to paralyze a fish? The cone snail produces venom that works, but what happens at a molecular level? A calcium channel blocker prevents muscle movement, enabling the slow-moving snail to catch faster, larger...
Favorite Poem Project
Favorite Poem Project: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
In this video episode [9:32] from The Favorite Poem Project, Jessie Alspaugh, a college student who is confined to a wheelchair due to complete paralysis, through her assistive technology, describes her life in an independent setting and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nervous System Health and Disorders
This lesson will introduce several disorders of the nervous system and will investigate their cause and effect on the brain. [6:11]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Rerouting Working Nerves to Restore Hand Function
Surgeons bypass a spinal cord injury to build a new hand-brain connection in paralyzed man.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Paralyzed Rats Walk, Even Sprint After Rehab
Paralyzed rats regain their footing after rehab forges new connections between brain and spinal cord.