Curated Video
Why Do We Cry?
Professor Sophie Scott of University College London studies cognitive neuroscience of human communication. She is well-known for her TED Talk called, "Why We Laugh." We asked her to explain why humans cry. Following is a transcript of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mina Cikara - Teachers Make a Difference - Jannay Morrow
Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2010 and completed a NIH Ruth L....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mina Cikara - Us Versus Them
Mina Cikara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2010 and completed a NIH Ruth L....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elizabeth Phelps - Teachers Make a Difference - Hugh B. Hammet
Elizabeth Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. Professor Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Elizabeth Phelps - Emotion and Memory
Elizabeth Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. Professor Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell...
Curated Video
Differences Between Types of Laughter
Professor Sophie Scott of University College London studies cognitive neuroscience of human communication. She is well-known for her TED Talk called, "Why We Laugh." We asked her to explain the difference between the types of laughter we...
World Science Festival
Modern MacGyver: Painting and the Scientific Method
In high school, most of us learned that the scientific method is a rigid, step-by-step process. In practice, successful science is often conducted loosely, nonlinearly, and with an occasional breaking of the rules. Every stage of the...
AsapSCIENCE
The Scientific Power of Meditation
How exactly does meditation affect your body? GET THE BOOK! http://asapscience.com/book SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/10kWnZ7 Written by: Rachel Salt, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit FOLLOW US--- Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions are Made The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to the book How Emotions are Made:...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lisa Feldman Barrett - Teachers Make a Difference - Ron Crosby and Karl Vidmar
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to the book How Emotions are Made:...
Curated Video
How Depression and Pain Are Connected
There's a very close relationship between pain and depression. You can think of it as Bi-directional meaning that each entity influences the other. Pain worsens or can even cause depression and depression worsens your pain tolerance....
Psych2Go
10 Signs of High Functioning Depression
The symptoms of High Functioning Depression (HFD) are similar to that of clinical depression. Many people suffer from High Functioning Depression, and might not even know it; do ~you~ have HFD? 10 signs of High Functioning Depression...
Psych2Go
8 Things People with Depression Want You to Know
Depression and mental illness can feel like they are weighing down on the quality of life. For Giving Week 2018, Psych2Go wants to share a compilation of what people with depression what you to understand, because it's easy to make...
Curated Video
Why the teenage brain has an evolutionary advantage
All the seemingly crazy behaviors of teenagers, they aren’t just there to annoy parents – they might serve a real evolutionary purpose. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1fUWHyY Not only are the brains of teenagers still developing, but different...
Curated Video
Studying the Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Cognition Using Rodents
Brody is professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research focuses is on novel quantitative behaviors that allow exploring high-level cognitive...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Nelson - Teachers Make a Difference
Dr. Nelson’s research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development. His specific interests are concerned with the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Nelson - Romania's Abandoned Children
Dr. Nelson’s research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development. His specific interests are concerned with the...
After Skool
The War on Consciousness - Graham Hancock
What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we're just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that's the end of consciousness, there is no life after...
Big Think
How will AI shape the future of storytelling? | Karen Palmer | Big Think
How will AI shape the future of storytelling? New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Harvard University
Why Brain Science Needs an Edit | Mu-ming Poo || Radcliffe Institute
Mu-ming Poo, founding director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discusses the use of gene-editing tools such as CRISPR in efforts to develop a macaque...
World Science Festival
Cartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome
Scientists are attempting to map the wiring of the nearly 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Are we close to uncovering the mysteries of the mind or are we only at the beginning of a new frontier? PARTICIPANTS: Deanna Barch, Jeff...
World Science Festival
TRAILER - Cartographers of the Brain: Mapping the Connectome
SYNOPSIS: Scientists are attempting to map the wiring of the nearly 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Are we close to uncovering the mysteries of the mind or are we only at the beginning of a new frontier? Watch the FULL PROGRAM:...
Curated Video
Keepin’ it chill: helping kids stay cool under pressure
Manpreet Singh, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Director, Pediatric Mood Disorders Program Today’s kids are growing up in a fast-paced and hyper-connected world, especially here in Silicon Valley. So how...
Curated Video
Getting from Genes to Pathophysiology in Autism Spectrum and Tourette Disorders
Matthew State MD, PhD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and human geneticist who is currently the Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Executive Director of the UCSF Child...