SciShow
The Ice Bucket Challenge Actually Worked
The Ice Bucket Challenge raised millions of dollars for research into treatments for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Where did that money go? Into characterizing new genes that we may be able to target with chemotherapy drugs like paclitaxel!
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
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.
Bozeman Science
The Synapse
In this video Paul Andersen gives an overview of the human urinary system. The system consist of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra. The kidneys excrete waste from the blood in urine. He explains how the nephron is responsible...
SciShow
What Squids and Frogs Taught Us About How Brain Cells Talk
Back in the early days of neuroscience, we didn't study the animals you might expect to learn about how brain cells communicate.
Crash Course
The Chemical Mind - Crash Course Psychology
BAHHHHHH! Did I scare you? What exactly happens when we get scared? How does our brain make our body react? Just what are Neurotransmitters? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes us to the simplest part of the complex...
SciShow
Human Connectome
Hank briefs us on a fascinating project that aims to map the anatomical and functional pathways of the brain - a neural network called the human connectome.
Bozeman Science
The Nervous System
Paul Andersen begins this podcast with a discussion of brain lateralization and gives a brief demonstration of tests that were performed on split-brain individuals. He then discusses the major parts of a neuron and explains how action...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives. But most of us don't know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we...
Crash Course
The Nervous System, Part 3 - Synapses!: Crash Course A&P
We continue our tour of the nervous system with a look at synapses and the crazy stuff cocaine does to your body.
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Table of Contents:
Electrical Synapses Use Ion Currents Over Gap Junctions to Transmit Neurological Signals...
SciShow
Your Brain is Plastic
Hank explains the gift that your brain gives you every day: the gift of neural plasticity -- the ways in which your brain actually changes at the cellular level as you learn.
Bozeman Science
The Neuron
In this video Paul Andersen explains the basic anatomy of a neuron; including the dendrites, cell body, axon hillock, axon, and axon terminal. He also describes how neurons are classified both structurally and functionally.
Crash Course
The Nervous System - CrashCourse Biology
Hank begins a series of videos on organ systems with a look at the nervous system and all of the things that it is responsible for in the body.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How fast is the speed of thought? | Seena Mathew
Your mortal enemy has captured you and hooked you up to a bizarre experiment. He's extended your nervous system with one very long neuron to a target about 70 meters away. At some point, he's going to fire an arrow. If you can then think...
Curated Video
Axon
The long projecting part of a nerve cell that transmits impulses away from the body of the nerve cell, to the synapse at its tip. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and...
Curated Video
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.
Neuro Transmissions
How The Giant Squid Axon Changed Neuroscience
A lot of techniques and methods used in neuroscience have been developed thanks to modern technology and science. But what did neuroscientists do back in the day before all this fancy stuff? Well, turns out the giant squid axon was...
Visual Learning Systems
Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Nerve Cells
Students will learn the three main types of neurons and how they travel through the body's nerve network. Diagrams explain how information is received using our sensory organs and then processed by the central and peripheral nervous...
Curated Video
Introduction to the Nervous System and Neurons
This video provides an introduction to the nervous system and its key features. The speaker explains the role of the nervous system in allowing communication throughout the body using electrical impulses, and discusses the central...
The Noted Anatomist
Autonomic innervation of the heart
This video tutorial briefly covers the sympathetic and parasympathetic role on heart innervation. It focuses on the following: - Sympathetic neurotransmitters (epinephrine and nor-epinephrine) and receptors (adrenergic). -...
Curated Video
Cell Specialization and Differentiation in Plants and Animals
This video explains the concept of cell specialization and differentiation. The narrator discusses how cells differentiate to become specialized for their unique functions within an organism. The differences in differentiation between...
The Noted Anatomist
Parasympathetics overview
This is a short video tutorial introducing the parasympathetic nervous system.
Catalyst University
Action Potential Physiology (FULL VIDEO)
Action Potential Physiology (FULL VIDEO)