Crash Course
Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders: Crash Course Psychology
Did you know that Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder aren't the same thing? Did you know that we don't call it Multiple Personality Disorder anymore? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes us down the road of...
SciShow
4 Psychological Terms That You're Using Incorrectly
At some point, you’ve probably heard someone use any or all of these four words to describe someone. But there’s a really excellent chance that person had no idea what these terms mean. But SciShow is here to help clear up some of these...
TED Talks
George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
To get out of the mess we're in, we need a new story that explains the present and guides the future, says author George Monbiot. Drawing on findings from psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, he offers a new vision for...
SciShow
Why Do Depression and Anxiety Go Together?
Even though depression and anxiety are different types of disorders, they tend to go together. But why can it happen?
SciShow
7 Organs You Could Totally Live Without
Most people know that they don't need their appendix, but what other organs can humans live without?
SciShow
Not Every Egomaniac Has Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Professionally diagnosing narcissistic personality disorder is difficult for psychologists, partially because anyone who might have it just thinks they’re great!
SciShow
What We Get Wrong About “Alcoholism”
There are a lot of stereotypes and stigma surrounding alcohol that prevent both understanding and adequate care, and the spectrum of symptoms that alcohol use disorder can include is a lot more complicated than you might think.
SciShow
Why Comic Sans Isn’t the Worst Font Ever
Nothing can undo the invention of Comic Sans, but that may not be a bad thing since it seems to be helping people with dyslexia.
TED Talks
Taryn Simon: The stories behind the bloodlines
Taryn Simon captures the essence of vast, generation-spanning stories by photographing the descendants of people at the center of the narrative. In this riveting talk she shows a stream of these stories from all over the world,...
SciShow
What We Still Don't Know About Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome has become a pop culture clich_, but the truth behind it is a little more complicated than TV might have you believe.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT
Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text - even Vanilla Ice lyrics?...
SciShow
How Cells Hack Entropy to Live
One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly increasing. But, life’s inherent chemical makeup has been hacking the disorder of the universe for billions of years!
SciShow
Why Depression Isn’t Just a Chemical Imbalance
Depression is a common disorder, and though it might seem like we’ve got it figured out, what it is and how to treat it is actually way more complicated than we think.
TED Talks
TED: In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life | Jan Rader
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. As a fire chief and first responder, Jan Rader has spent her career saving lives. But when the opioid epidemic hit...
SciShow
Why Is The Sound Of Chewing So Awful?
Does the sound of someone eating make your skin crawl with disgust? Does the sound of someone typing on a keyboard really get on your nerves? Join us to find out why noises like these can really get under some people's skin!
SciShow
Tourette Syndrome: What Makes People Tic
Tourette Syndrome in popular culture is often simplified to a poorly timed foul mouth, but that’s only a small part of the story—or sometimes not part of the story at all.
SciShow
The Lesser-Known Symptoms of Depression
Depression is not just feeling hopeless or apathetic, there are lots more symptoms that we aren’t familiar with.
SciShow
Why We’ve Been Ignoring These Brain Cells | Great Minds: Ben Barres
Neurons often get all the credit for running the brain, but the work done by Ben Barres at Stanford University proved that glial cells are far more crucial to brain functioning than we had previously realized.
Crash Course
Personality Disorders: Crash Course Psychology
What exactly are Personality Disorders? How can they be diagnosed? Can we prevent some of them? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank gives us the down low on things like Ego-Dystonic and Ego-Syntonic Disorders, Borderline and...
SciShow
Real Pain and ‘Explosive’ Brains - Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is not a well-understood malady, but scientists are making breakthroughs that could eventually help pin down both the causes and the cures.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Does Time Exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars. More precise time-keeping eventually came along to put time in more...
SciShow
Borderline Personality Disorder: Sorting Fact From Fiction
There are so many persistent myths about Borderline Personality Disorder. But, the reality of being quote “borderline” is much more nuanced — and hopeful. Chapters Borderline Personality Disorder 0:16 identity disturbance 3:11 dialectic...
SciShow
Me, Myself, and I: Dissociative Identity Disorder
Edward Norton and Jim Carrey might be charming actors, but their film portrayals of people with multiple personalities aren’t even close to accurate.
SciShow
Why Does Lithium Help Bipolar Disorder?
There’s no doubt that lithium has a diverse list of uses. But the way that it interacts with our bodies to help treat bipolar disorder is aiding us in better understanding the disorder and potentially developing new drugs to combat it.