Curated Video
Top 4 Inherited Mental Health Disorders: What You Need to Know
Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks explains the top 4 mental health conditions with the highest heritability (greatest genetic influence). She discusses what heritability means, the role of environmental triggers, and how knowing your family...
SciShow
We Were Super Wrong About Mental Illness The DSM’s Origin Story
We reference the DSM pretty frequently on SciShow Psych, and for good reason: it’s considered the gold standard for professional mental health diagnosis in the United States, but it was an interesting journey to get there.
Curated Video
A Mental Health Journey of Understanding, Acceptance, and Hope
This video emphasizes the importance of a better understanding and acceptance of psychotic conditions through scientific advancements, education, and combating stigma. It highlights the value of early identification, comprehensive...
EarthEcho International
Into the Dead Zone: Investigating the Impact of Wastewater on Our Water Planet
This video explores the issue of dead zones in water bodies around the world, caused by the release of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater and agricultural runoff. The expedition team investigates the impact of these pollutants on...
TED Talks
Kay M. Tye: What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health
Neuroscientist Kay M. Tye investigates how your brain gives rise to complex emotional states like depression, anxiety or loneliness. From the cutting edge of science, she shares her latest findings -- including the development of a tool...
Crash Course
Psychological Disorders: Crash Course Psychology
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes a look at how the treatment for Psychological Disorders has changed over the last hundred years and who is responsible for getting us on the path to getting us here. -- Table of...
Curated Video
Navigating the Complex Treatment of Bipolar Disorder and Psychosis
While many drugs are available to treat bipolar disorder and psychotic symptoms, finding the right medication often involves trial and error, with treatments primarily managing symptoms rather than curing the condition. Lithium remains a...
Curated Video
CISSP® Certification Domain 1 Security and Risk Management Video Boot Camp for 2022 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-37 Revision 1 and 2
This video explains NIST SP 800-37 revision 1 and 2. This clip is from the chapter "Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP Domain 1 - Security and Risk Management" of the series "CISSP® Certification Domain 1: Security...
The Wall Street Journal
Andy Dunn on Supporting Employee Mental Health
The Bonobos co-founder joins us to discuss the link between entrepreneurship and mental-health issues and how companies must pioneer new methods to support the psychological wellbeing of employees.
Curated Video
28 Phrases For Business Reports
"In this lesson, I talk about the structure of a formal business report and share lots of great phrases for writing business reports. Some of the phrases you'll learn in this lesson: Executive summary: - This report was requested by … -...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Chemicals and Elements
In this video, the concept of chemicals and elements in matter is explained. The video emphasizes how the arrangement of elements gives matter its unique characteristics. This video is part of the 7-part series, Chemical Changes.
Curated Video
Can the Keto Diet Help Bipolar Disorder & Schizophrenia?
Could your diet be the missing piece in managing bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? A surprising new study investigates the ketogenic diet and its potential benefits for mental health. Learn about the science and what this could mean for...
Great Big Story
From Lifting Weights to Olympic Dreams: Battling Bipolar Disorder in the World of Weightlifting
Discover the inspiring journey of overcoming depression and bipolar disorder through weightlifting. Join the conversation on mental health in sports and breaking stigma.
Institute of Art and Ideas
Are our diagnosis or mental illness real?
From schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric diagnoses are real. But as the mental health epidemic turns global, the categories now seem like the cause. Is it time to abandon our biological account of mental illness? Or is...
Curated Video
Gravity Falls Character Transformation Project
In this video you will see four student character transformation projects. They began by dilating an image in a Google doc. They used the draw feature to engineer half inch square graph paper on an 8.5 by 11 in document. Students then...
Curated Video
Genetic and Environmental Causes of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder and psychotic symptoms are largely influenced by genetics, as demonstrated by studies where children of parents with psychosis exhibit a higher risk of developing psychotic illnesses regardless of their environment. The...
Curated Video
Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Psychotic Conditions
Psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are diagnosed based on observed or reported symptoms, not through biological tests or brain imaging. This leads to a classification of syndromes rather than specific...
Curated Video
A Blood Test That Can Diagnose Depression?
Did you know there’s a blood test that can detect your risk of depression? why aren’t we using it? Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, with 1 in every 6 adults experiencing it at some point in their lives. And...
JJ Medicine
Wernicke’s Encephalopathy | Causes, Symptom Triad & Treatment
Lesson on Wernicke’s Encephalopathy: Causes, Signs/Symptoms, Treatment. Wernicke’s encephalopathy is an acute, reversible encephalopathy caused by a vitamin deficiency that we discussed in this lesson. A subset of patients are...
TED Talks
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. Read Montague gives an overview of how this...
SciShow
Strontium: It Knows Where You've Been
Your teeth contain traces of strontium isotopes that can reveal where you lived while they were forming.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it) - Mikael Cho
Heart racing, palms sweating, labored breathing? No, you're not having a heart attack -- it's stage fright! If speaking in public makes you feel like you're fighting for your life, you're not alone. But the better you understand your...
Curated Video
Learning and Growing Through Mania and Psychosis
Dara Sanandaji's life with bipolar disorder encouraged him to become more introspective and to guide his own approach to dealing with mental illness. Despite the challenges, Dara's dedication to self-improvement and learning from his...
Bozeman Science
AP Biology Lab 9: Transpiration
Paul Andersen starts by defining transpiration as evaporation off of a leaf. He then describes how a potometer can be used to measure the rate of transpiration in different environments.