The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches...

SciShow News explains the science behind ALS, the disease that has inspired millions to take the Ice Bucket Challenge. Learn what ALS is, what we do and don’t know about it, and watch SSN hosts take the challenge themselves!

Humans’ experiences with ventilators have taught us that sighing isn’t just a way to express yourself: it’s a vital part of our everyday breathing.

SciShow explores a newly identified neurological condition, aphantasia, the inability to visualize things in your imagination, and gives tribute to Dr. Oliver Sacks, popular explorer of the human mind.

Quick Questions explains what alcohol does -- and doesn’t do -- to your brain cells. Enjoy this episode responsibly!

Brain transplants are a long way from being feasible, and even if the technical challenges could be overcome, there are ethical issues to grapple with.

Ready for action? Time to get your neurons firing with some action potential. If you thought resting potential was tough to understand, it seems like action potential is that much more difficult. However, thanks to Alie Astrocyte, we...

Have you ever stressed out about sending an email, rereading it to see if it sounds okay, or wondering if you added too many exclamation points? Or maybe you feel confident when expressing yourself via text message, but you just can’t...

In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how scientists and medical professionals know with certainty, that we use 100% of our brain.

1901 - Dr. Alois Alzheimer first documents the peculiar case of Auguste Deter, a patient exhibiting severe memory loss and cognitive decline. Dr. Alzheimer's meticulous observations would lay the foundation for the eventual...

Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study, describes how both making mistakes and encountering a wide variety of views is a necessary part of a vibrant scientific atmosphere, describing the welcoming reaction cognitive scientists had to...

Neuroscience and psychology have a lot in common. But where does one begin and the other end? What are the differences? And how did we end up with these two different-yet-overlapping fields? It turns out that the history of brain science...

You know What I and Kendall Jenner have in common? Sleep paralysis. Here I have animated my experience and also explained the symptoms, causes, treatments, prevention, types of hallucinations and the neurological mechanism of Sleep...

Can a person feel no Pain? congenital insensitivity to pain or CIP- which is also known as congenital analgesia, is a condition where the patient cannot feel any physical pain. An Animation about Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. A rare...

The best way to start lucid dreaming is by training the brain to pick up dream signs. I'll discuss dream signs, Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD), Wake back to bed (WBTB), Reality Testing and Sleep Diaries. But first, I'll start...

What is Meningitis? Well, Bacterial Meningitis is a True Medical Emergency that requires an urgent Lumbar Puncture for the diagnosis. This real life clinical case is about a young female patient in her thirties who presented with...

Alzheimer’s disease is no stranger in the news cycle. The latest headlines are dedicated to a new study on how the brain keeps itself clean, a process which scientists have long suspected to be involved in the disease. Let's take a look.

Former NFL players are three times more likely to develop neurodegenerative diseases than the general population, a new study suggests. The study, published in the medical journal Neurology, surveyed nearly 3,500 retired football players...

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative prion disease in which affected individuals (e.g., Michael J Fox [comedian]; Muhammad Ali [Heavyweight champ]) suffer cell death in the substantia nigra and tremors. In this video, I will...

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative prion disease in which affected individuals suffer destruction of neurons in the basal nuclei (e.g., GABAergic neurons) and rapid, involuntary movements as a result. In this video, I will...

The human brain is weird - like, really weird - and surprisingly untrustworthy. It can trick you into thinking you hear something you don't, or taste red wine when it's just white with a dash of food coloring. Join John as he explores 10...

We discuss Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel Fresco. It's fun to think the artist was capable of creating an anatomically accurate human brain in the painting, but more fun to discuss Neoplatonism.