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Here's Why You Want To Know About Mushrooms and Depression
Psilocybin is a compound found in mushrooms that has psychedelic properties. Psychedelic means it makes you hallucinate. Psilocybin works in the brain by activating the 5-HT2A receptor on the neuron to increase serotonin.
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Catnip Experiment
Jessi experiments with catnip! See what a cat, a skunk, foxes, and a mink do when they smell catnip.
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Vaping Increases The Risk of Depression
Researchers at Johns Hopkins published a study in December 2019 showing a link between e-cigarettes and depression. This isn’t the first study of it’s kind. There have been others. Depression and vaping are seen as having a bidirectional...
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Stress Versus Anxiety: How This Herb May Help
Some people will use stress and anxiety interchangeably, but stress and anxiety are not the same, there are some distinct differences between the two. Why does is matter? One reason is because there’s an herbal remedy that’s gaining a...
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Milgram Studies
Also known as the Milgrim Shock Experiments, the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
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Asch Studies
In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch paradigm were a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and...
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Psychedelics - Here’s Where We Are
Here’s rundown of the different psychedelics and why people are so excited about them. Psychedelics activate the serotonin 5HT2a receptor in the brain. Antidepressants and the atypical antipsychotics also affect this receptor but in...
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Maladaptive Daydreaming vs Mind wandering – How To Tell the Difference
Maladaptive daydreaming is a psychological construct that explains a behavior but it is not an official disorder. There is not a lot that’s known about it, but it’s being researched more so we can better understand the prevalence, the...
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Is Hearing Voices Ever Normal?
In general when we hear that someone is hearing voices, we believe that the person is experiencing a psychotic episode. Psychosis is a break from reality and not knowing what’s real and not real. Usually hearing voices, also called...
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Do Benzodiazepines Cause Dementia?
Benzodiazepines are a type of medication prescribed to people with anxiety and panic disorders. But do they cause dementia? In this video, I talk about the research on benzodiazepines and dementia, and what it means for people taking...
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CBD For Anxiety?
CBD or cannabidiol has become a popular go to drug to use for a variety of problems. There’s only one FDA approved CBD prescription medication – Epidiolex. It’s approved for a specific kind of seizure disorder. But you can get CBD...
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Bright light therapy for bipolar depression
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 research,...
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Bored to Sleep? It’s a Real Thing With the ADHD Brain
Does your brain check out when you get bored to the point where you go unconscious just like that? It can happen when you’re sleep deprived, or have narcolepsy, but it can also happen when you have ADHD . That’s what what this video is...
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Alternative Medicine For Depression
There are natural medicines for depression that can be used as add on treatment. Some of these options for depression can be used alone to help mild to moderate symptoms. In this video I discuss some of the options for helping your...
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Speaking with Space
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) discusses the growing research overlap of sign language linguistics with modern neuroscience.
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Biology and Criminality
Nita Farahany, Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University, discusses the future of criminality in light of the evolving science of human behaviour.
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Types of Taxes
The video Types of Taxes explains the types of taxes paid at the local, state, and federal levels of the United States government, including income tax, sales tax, and property tax.
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Does Sleep Deprivation Cause Body Aches?
Sleep deprivation is often linked with body aches, among other effects, such as the numbing of our senses, reduction of our reaction time, etc. This is because sleep allows the body to repair damaged cells and get rid of harmful...
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How To Make Algorithms Fairer | Algorithmic Bias and Fairness
In the second part of this series on Algorithmic Bias and Fairness, we're looking at how we can make artificial intelligence and algorithms fairer.
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Did Artificial Intelligence Help Us Fight COVID?
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a lot of excitement around the use of machine learning to fight COVID. But now that we're 18 months into it, did AI actually help?
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
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Do Algorithms Radicalize?
Algorithms are becoming increasingly associated with radicalization, but are they really the root of the issue?
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What Is a Drought?
"What Is a Drought?" defines the term drought and discusses examples of the effects of a drought on the environment and the everyday lives of people.
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Neural Networks
Northeastern University social psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett relates how modern neuroscience has moved from focusing on the behaviour of individual neurons to examining neural networks - vast numbers of neurons linked together.