Professor Dave Explains
Bacterial Pathogenesis How Bacteria Cause Damage
So we know that there are unbelievable numbers of bacteria inside of us, and some of them are good. So what about the bad ones? What do those do? How do they harm us, exactly? What defenses do we have against them? Let's take a look!
Curated Video
A potential cure for HIV
Scientists have developed a therapeutic vaccine for HIV which has the potential to create a functional cure for the disease. Here's how it works
Professor Dave Explains
The Chemistry of Air Purification
It's amazing to think that we've gone from having no idea what air is, to knowing its composition intimately, and even having the ability to filter what's in it. We have produced machines that can remove both pathogens as well as harmful...
Next Animation Studio
Study finds dietary supplements may contain harmful drugs
A total of 776 over-the-counter dietary supplements were found to contain potentially harmful drugs.
Professor Dave Explains
Anthrax Bacillus anthracis
Most of us know about anthrax either because of the terrorism involving sending anthrax in the mail, or because of the metal band by the same name. But let's get a closer look at the actual bacterium, Bacillus anthracis.
Healthcare Triage
Shrooms, LSD, and Legit Uses of Psychedelics in Treatments
With all the recent studies of medical marijuana and its benefits, some researchers have become interested in researching the use of psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA for treating mental illness. It's hard to research though,...
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Modern Medicine
Learn about the bizarre and often dangerous medical treatments used in America up until the 20th century.
Professor Dave Explains
Methods of Drug Administration
When a patient must be administered a drug in a medical setting, how does this occur? Well there are lots of ways. Pills or tablets can be ingested orally. There are topical creams, tubes, injections, and more. How does each one work,...
Curated Video
Can America's War on Drugs Ever Be Won?
As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so America’s relationship with drugs has changed. From Nixon to Trump, the so-called 'War on Drugs' has cost the US government billions – but will there ever be an end...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to the History of Drugs
A drug is a substance that, when introduced to the body, produces some non-nutritional physiological effect. This includes medicinal drugs as well as recreational drugs, and they take many forms. Focusing predominately on medicinal...
Global Ethics Solutions
Alcohol and Drug Basics (Part 3)
This presentation develops a basic understanding of the most common drugs in the workplace.
Planet PE
GCSE PE- Performance Enhancing Drugs in sport PEDs
In this video we look at a GCSE PE topic from Paper 2 on Performance enhancing drugs. We look at examples of each type of drug and how a performer may benefit from using them and then give specific examples of advantages of disadvantages...
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Secondary PSHE - Drugs
Teens giving their opinions on drugs. Intended to provoke classroom debate, these clips show teens talking about drugs. You might not agree with everything they say! What drugs would your students be able to get on their local streets?...
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What is a drug?
This video provides an overview of stimulant and depressant drugs, explaining their effects on the body and how they interact with the nervous system. It explores common examples of these drugs, such as caffeine, cocaine, alcohol, and...
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Drug and Alcohol Abuse
It lists the commonly abused drugs and alcohols, their chemical compositions and physiological effects.
Professor Dave Explains
Categorizing Drugs Classes, Names, and Schedules
How do we categorize drugs? How do we name them? This is quite a bit trickier than one might think, because there are different ways we might want to categorize them, each of which has its own application. Any drug also has multiple...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Fentanyl Can Sicken First Responders. Here's a Possible Solution
NIST researchers demonstrate techniques for screening illegal drugs for the synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are causing a spike in overdose deaths. More info:...
The Wall Street Journal
A Crispr Cure?
Gene-editing tools like Crispr/Cas9 offer the potential to both enhance and correct the building-blocks of life. What progress has been made in using gene editing to diagnose and treat disease?
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Pharmacology
What are drugs? What do they do? How do they do what they do? These questions are part of the field of pharmacology, and over this series we will learn all about a wide variety of different drugs that have clinical use. This will require...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to the Microbial World
It's time to learn about microorganisms! These are all the tiny little critters in the water, and the air, and in the ground, and inside you. We didn't even know they were there until a few hundred years ago, but once we started to learn...
Professor Dave Explains
Pharmacodynamics Mechanisms of Drug Action
Now that we know how drugs move through the body to reach their target, what happens once they get there? By what mechanisms can drugs interact with target proteins to elicit a particular cellular response, and by extension a...
Professor Dave Explains
Drug Addiction and the Brain
We are able to become physically dependent on a wide variety of substances, which results in what we call drug addiction. What does this look like from a neurophysiological standpoint? What does the drug-addicted brain look like? Let's...
Professor Dave Explains
Routes of Viral Transmission
Now we know a bit more about how viruses interact with cells, whether those are bacterial cells, or animal cells, such as ours. But how do they gain access to our cells in the first place? How do viruses get inside the human body? Let's...
Neuro Transmissions
Neuroscience of ADHD
ADHD might seem like a convenient excuse to be able to medicate your overactive child. But it turns out that ADHD is a real diagnosis with a different combination of symptoms for each person. There are still a lot of questions...