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Jessi explains the next step in training an animal - communicating with a clicker. Behavior, marker, reinforcement. Repeat. What's the most important part of communicating with clicker training? Watch and find out.

Jessi answers questions from viewers: who would she want to be, who makes her nervous, what reptile enclosures are used, worst part of the job, and how does everyone stay clean? Among others.

We found out who has Avian Bornavirus and we've decided what to do.

A growing number of parents believe in unschooling — the process of learning through life, outside classrooms. Similar to homeschooling it usually happens at home or within the community. But while homeschooling usually follows a formal...

Ever wonder why some people give up really easily and other people can keep going strong even when it looks they will fail anyway? That’s what this I explain in this video.
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One reason behind giving up quickly is...

Grit is a trait that has been studied and determined to have two aspects: perseverance of effort and consistency of interests. It’s your ability to stick with something to the end even if it’s a hard road. Researchers have found...

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It's an experience characterized by a pleasurable tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins in the head and moves down the body. ASMR videos are created to trigger...

The Adderall Effect: Strategies for Minimizing the Crash

The traditional way we approached the cause and treatment of depression is to see it as a chemical imbalance. That is you have in sufficient amounts of the neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine and low...

What ADHD is really like. It's more than problems with focus and concentration. I discuss ADHD in adulthood symptoms. ADHD and hyperfocus are an unexpected combination.
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In an adult with ADHD, here's what you can...

The clinical term for health anxiety used to be hypochondriasis, but now it’s been split into two disorders, somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder.
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With health anxiety you are...

What is toxic positivity? It's the idea that you have to always be happy, no matter what. If you're not, then something must be wrong with you. This video dives into how this mindset actually causes more harm than good and why it's...

Healing from grief is usually a long slow process, and what we think of as typical grief would be an experience that may start out intensely sad and negative and then overtime becomes less sad and with more positive reflections on the...

There’s a bidirectional relationship between gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety. This relationship is thought to be controlled by a gut-brain connection. Research studies have concluded that there is signaling between...

Your self-esteem is how you see yourself and your opinion of yourself. How useful do you feel? Do you believe you have good qualities? Do you think you’re able to do thing as well as other people? In this video I’ll show you signs you...

In this video, I talk about the importance of your locus of control. What is it? How do you know where you lie on the spectrum of internal to external? And how do you become more internally focused?

The general definition of paranoid is being excessively suspicious or mistrustful. So you can have a moment of paranoia where are you preoccupied with suspicions about someone or something. But the difference here is that...

Not all problems with attention are ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). The reason it is important is because you don’t want to take stimulants if problems with attention and focus if these problems are not the...

I want to help you identify automatic thoughts that you have that can affect how you feel about yourself and others. We call these cognitive distortions. We all have them to some degree. The more you have and...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurological disorder that affects how people process information and can lead to problems with focus, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. Despite being one of the most common mental...

In this video I discuss coping mechanisms and defense mechanisms.

Coping skills are the thoughts and behaviors you engage in that help you manage distressing situations. They can be divided into emotion-focused and...

Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a...

Bright light therapy for bipolar depression. We used to recommend light therapy for people with bipolar disorder with caution. The reason for caution was that the light could trigger a manic episode in some people. With further...