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How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?
Do you often go to bed and wake up around the same time? Does your stomach begin to growl at the same time before eating lunch? This pattern is known as a circadian rhythm. Watch a video that explains the physiological phenomenon and how...
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Why Do We Cook?
Are you hungry right now? If you are, it might be because your brain is so large. The video describes the shift from larger jaw to larger brain and the relationship of larger brains to cooking. Crushing, preserving, and drying also made...
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Paying Attention in the Digital Age
"In a new article, doctors say that your attention span is like a muscle that can be strengthened. I didn't read the rest of the article because I saw a shiny thing." - Conan O'Brien. The video explains the way the brain process...
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Why Do Things Sound Scary?
Why do dissonant noise cause a physical reaction of fear in humans? The video explains why some things sound scary and how we evolved to be more afraid of sounds than sights. It details how people constantly live in the past and how...
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Why Your Brain Is in Your Head
The evolutionary process of the development of brains and their placement in the bodies of animals is the focus of a video that also discusses the genes that control the brain and the protections that developed along with it.
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What is Déjà Vu?!
Have you ever felt like you've been somewhere or seen something before? You won't get deja vu using this resource — it is totally unique! The video that explores deja vu and connections humans' brains make. Scholars see how our...
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Nervous System
The average adult human brain contains 100 billion neurons. In the video, scholars learn about brain lateralization and how different portions of our brain do different things. Learners then explore neurons, learning their parts and how...
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How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body ... and Your Brain
Exercising is undeniably beneficial for our brains and bodies. But how do these benefits compare to the participation and joining of a sports team? Watch an educational video to discover the psychological and health benefits of...
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Why the Insect Brain Is So Incredible
What makes an insect's brain so marvelous? Insects have tiny nervous systems that are more complex than you think. Surprisingly, there are quite a few similarities between an insect's brain and a human's brain. Watch an engaging video to...
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How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
Nuts, seeds, and fatty fish. Fresh fruits and vegetables. We may know what we should eat but not understand why these food are so important. This short video explains how foods affect you brain and why we should eat them.
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How does anesthesia work?
Many people know the feeling of counting backward from 100 before a surgical procedure begins, but what actually happens between number 99 and waking up after surgery? Watch a short video about the different types of anesthesia, the...
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Why the Octopus Brain Is so Extraordinary
What creature can solve puzzles, learn from observation, use tools, oh, and has eight legs? Why the octopus, of course. Follow along as the video explores the brain of this amazing Coleoidea .
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Could Your Brain Repair Itself?
Is your brain running a little slow? Just reboot it and you'll be good to go. This advice may sound ridiculous, but by watching this video you will learn how through a process called neurogenesis, adult brains are able repair...
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Earworms: Those Songs That Get Stuck in Your Head
We've all been infected by earworms at one point or another. But don't worry! These aren't creepy crawly critters that live inside our heads. Follow along with this short video as it explores the interesting psychology...
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How Spontaneous Brain Activity Keeps You Alive
We all know that the brain is responsible for our thoughts, actions, memories, and emotions, but it's far busier than we can possibly imagine. Watch this short video as it explores how life as we know it is made possible...
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The Evolution of the Human Eye
Vision is arguably the most important of the five senses, but exactly how did we come by this amazing ability? Find out with this engaging video on the 500 million year evolution of the human eye.
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The Benefits of a Good Night's Sleep
It's well known that people should get eight hours of sleep each night, but exactly why is that? Follow along with this short video as it investigates the crucial role sleep plays not only in peoples' physical health, but...
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The Great Brain Debate
How do speech and memory operate within the human brain? Compare and contrast the localistic and distributed models with your young psychologists using this highly engaging and informative video.
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Why Elephants Never Forget
They say elephants never forget, but why exactly is that? Find out with this enlightening video as it explains the neuroscience behind the amazing intelligence of these giant mammals.
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What Happens When You Remove the Hippocampus?
Imagine not being able to remember what day it is or what food you had for breakfast this morning. This nightmare was a reality for Henry Molaison, whose life story is the focus of this video...
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The Teenage Brain Explained
This may answer some of your questions about your students' behavior, as well as explain to them the development stage that their brains are in. The roles of adrenal glands, apocrine (sweat) glands, and pituitary glands are explained as...
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Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness
We know that as a result of early detection and intervention, we are able to make great strides in treating common diseases; however, this is not yet the case in the realm of mental illness. Explore this query with your class and touch...
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Neuron Functions
Neuron functions are wonderfully demonstrated and explained in this short yet informative clip. Each term is related to a real life object that will really help visual learners conceptualize each step in neuron functioning. This clip...
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Neurons and How They Work
The brain is explained in somewhat ethereal terms in this video. Show your class a slightly different perspective of the neural network in the human body. Various animation is displayed throughout the video.