PickVidsBest Neuroscience & the brain Videos
The 92 Neuroscience & the brain videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 13 intermediate, 77 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Andrew Huberman, TED, Stanford.
What Microplastics Are Doing to the Brain, Body, and Reproductive Systems
A FoundMyFitness episode on how microplastics and associated chemicals such as BPA and PFAS accumulate in the body, including the brain and reproductive systems.
DMTx Breakthrough Panel Moderated By Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Gallimore & Dr. Rick Strassman
A roughly two and a half hour Noonautics panel on DMT research moderated by Graham Hancock with Andrew Gallimore and Rick Strassman.
How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
A short TED-Ed animated lesson by Anita Collins on what happens in the brain when people play a musical instrument.
The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman
A VICE documentary profiling Wim Hof, the Iceman, covering his feats of cold endurance, his breathing and meditation method, and scientific studies of his control over his autonomic and immune systems.
21. Chaos and Reductionism
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on chaos and reductionism, which he calls one of the hardest of the course.
How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
Inventor Mary Lou Jepsen demonstrates using red light and sound to see inside the body and brain, aiming at tumor detection and neural activity measurement, and potentially a cheaper wearable MRI replacement.
People who remember every second of their life | 60 Minutes Australia
A 60 Minutes Australia segment on people with highly superior autobiographical memory, who can recall the details of any day of their lives.
Optical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto runs the audience through color and pattern illusions to show that perception is shaped by context and evolutionary history rather than being a direct readout of the world.
Movie reconstruction from human brain activity
Jack Gallant's lab demonstrates reconstructing movie trailer clips a subject watched from fMRI brain activity, using regression models trained on hours of viewing data.
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
Harvard professor Arthur Brooks explains why boredom is useful rather than something to avoid.
The Weird World in RGB
Technology Connections explains how RGB light and color work, from hue and saturation to color vision and how objects appear under different lighting.
Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco
Berkeley neuroscientist Jack Gallant shows how fMRI brain mapping can be used to decode what a person sees, with visualizations of brain activity and its implications.
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
A five-minute C-SPAN clip of Dr.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price
A short TV segment on Jill Price, a woman with highly superior autobiographical memory who recalls nearly every day of her life.
Watch How This Blind Man Uses Echo Location To Ride a Bike
A short Inside Edition segment on Daniel Kish, a blind man who uses tongue clicks as human sonar to ride a bicycle through city traffic.
Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike
Mike Boyd takes up Smarter Every Day's challenge to learn to ride the Backwards Brain Bike, a bicycle whose steering is inverted, and rides 50 meters.
Next Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old)
Rick Beato tests his 8-year-old son Dylan's perfect pitch on single notes, note pairs and complex polychords.
Did People Used To Look Older?
Vsauce explores whether people in past decades really looked older than people of the same age today, or whether photographic and cultural factors make them seem so.
Decerebrate Cat walks and exhibits multiple gait patterns
An old lab video of a decerebrate cat walking on a treadmill and shifting between gait patterns as the speed changes.
How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google
Ray Kurzweil presents his book How to Create a Mind at Google, on reverse engineering the brain and using that understanding to build intelligent machines.