Curated Video
Facing Fear: Understanding and Overcoming Phobias
Delve into the intense world of phobias, where everyday objects and situations trigger debilitating fear. Explore the distinction between fear and phobia, understand what happens in the brain during a fearful response, and discover...
Curated Video
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder vs Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
These two disorders have similar names but are very difference. Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder does is a part of your personality make-up. That personality make-up does...
Curated Video
Anxiety Cells Found in the Brain - How They Did It
Researchers have found the origin of anxiety in the hippocampus of mice. This has far-reaching effects on how we look at and treat anxiety in humans. Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and University of California San...
Curated Video
Anxiety vs Mania – How To Tell The Difference
Anxiety disorders can occur along with bipolar disorder and there is some overlap in the way anxiety and mania look that it's not always clear which it is. Why does this matter? Because one of the ways people can remain stable with...
JJ Medicine
Tension Headaches | Triggers, Risk Factors, Signs & Symptoms, Types, Diagnosis, Treatment
Tension Headaches | Triggers, Risk Factors, Signs & Symptoms, Types, Diagnosis, Treatment Tension Headaches (also known as stress headaches and tension-type headaches) are very common headaches that lead to mild-moderate bilateral head...
JJ Medicine
Coffee: Health Benefits (ex. Reduction of Cancer) and Risks (ex. Pregnancy)
Coffee: Health Benefits and Risks In this lesson, we discuss animal model findings, cohort studies and meta-analyses concerning health benefits (neurological protection, liver health, cancer reduction) and health risks of consuming coffee.
Neuro Transmissions
IT and the Neuroscience of Fear
AHHH! A CREEPY CLOWN! Stephen King's IT is bringing fear back to the theater in 2017, so it's the perfect time to explore coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. Alie and Ali dive into the psychology and neuroscience of why the murderous...
Neuro Transmissions
Psychology of Anxiety
Take a deep breath in and out. Feel better? Anxiety and stress can be pretty gnarly. When it starts to affect your daily life, thatês when thereês some serious concern. But what can you do when you have a problem with anxiety? This week,...
Neuro Transmissions
Neuroscience of Anxiety
Alie knows all about how stressful grad school can be. But what happens when stress is more than just stress? This week, we're talking about the neuroscience of anxiety. And for Alie, it's personal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Behavior: Psychological Disorders: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Explains what some different types of anxiety disorder are, e.g., panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, and the impact these have on people's lives. [11:23]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Altering Fearful Memories
Scientists say they've found a way to disrupt the formation of fearful memory associations in mice. The work could one day help people with post-traumatic stress disorder. [14:6]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Sci Fri Book Club Talks "Monkey Mind"
Peer into the anxious mind of writer Daniel Smith with the SciFri Book Club.