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Why Do Antidepressants Cause Brain Zaps?
For some people who stop taking an SSRI or SNRI antidepressant, they can get a weird side effect called brain zaps. And even though we've known about them for decades, we still don't know exactly why brain zaps happen.
PBS
What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?
Physics is the business of figuring out the structure of the world. So are our brains. But sometimes physics comes to conclusions that are in direct conflict with concepts fundamental to our minds, such as the realness of space and time....
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What Do Parrots Think They’re Saying?
You ever see a parrot mimicking humans words, and wonder if they really get what they're talking about? They're smarter than they look - there's a lot of meaning in every squawk and chirp that parrots make. Not bad for a bird brain.
SciShow
Animals Have Grammar Too - A Little Birdie Told Us
If you hear birds chirping in the trees, you might not think much of the different sounds you're hearing. But as it turns out, those tweets and chirps have a lot more in common with some of our complicated rules of grammar than you might...
SciShow
The Crabs That Revolutionized Neuroscience
We used to think neural circuits were rigid and robotic, but now we know that's not true -- thanks to crab stomachs.
MinuteEarth
Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?
When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge
SciShow
We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works
Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.
SciShow
How Health Affects Sperm
Welcome back to SciShow News! Michael Aranda explains how a male's health affects their sperm.
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.
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Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on...
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Hacking the Brain: The Future of Prosthetics
We usually think of 'hacking' as a bad thing, but scientists are working on ways to hack the brain that will greatly benefit people with prosthetics, and maybe someday people with paralysis.
SciShow
Old Pill, New Trick
One team of researchers may has found a promising lead in the fight to cure or prevent Alzheimer's. And another team is helping us understand how Hydras regrow their heads. Hosted by: Hank Green
SciShow
How Weed Works: THC
Hank explains the science behind the effects of that wackiest of weeds, cannabis sativa - aka marijuana.
TED-Ed
The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine | Melanie E. Peffer
In the 1860s, scientists believed they were on the verge of uncovering the brain's biggest secret: how the brain's signals travel through the body. They believed these impulses travelled uninterrupted along a massive web of tissue. But...
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Treating Blindness With Light (and Gene Therapy) | SciShow News
We have the first published example of using light and gene therapy to restore someone's vision! And in heavier (metal) news, a recent study found surprisingly high levels of mercury in meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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How the Electricity in Our Bodies Could Fight Cancer
One potential avenue for cancer treatment uses electricity not from any outside machine, but from within our own bodies.
Crash Course
The Nervous System, Part 1: Crash Course A&P
Today Hank kicks off our look around MISSION CONTROL: your nervous system. -- Table of Contents: Sensory Input, Integration and Motor Output 1:36 Organization of Central and Peripheral Systems 2:16 Glial Cells 3:54 Role, Anatomy and...
SciShow
How Ancient Viruses Might Have Changed Our Brains
Recent discoveries about the Arc protein have shown that its function and origin may be even more complicated than scientists originally thought.
SciShow
Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on Earth!
SciShow
Are Your Eyes Part of Your Brain?
When you think of a brain, you probably imagine that pink, wrinkly organ in your skull, but we don’t have to stop there! Neither the brain’s functions, nor its cells, are confined to the organ we normally think of as the brain.
TED Talks
TED: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies...
TED Talks
Vilayanur Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as...
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How are Koalas alive?
Koalas are pretty darn cute, but...they aren’t the brightest bulb on the continent. They will only eat eucalyptus leaves off the branch. On a plate, a koala won’t recognize their one and only food. Yet, somehow, koalas are still alive....
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do schools of fish swim in harmony? - Nathan S. Jacobs
How do schools of fish swim in harmony? How do the tiny cells in your brain give rise to the complex thoughts, memories, and consciousness that are you? Oddly enough, those questions have the same general answer. Nathan S. Jacobs...