Neuro Transmissions
This Is Your Brain On Shrooms
Psychedelics like magic mushrooms have huge effects on the brain. But what are they doing up there? More than 180 species of "magic mushrooms" produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin. And ingesting it triggers some pretty trippy...
Neuro Transmissions
This is what COVID does to your brain.
We’ve learned a lot about COVID’s effects on the brain over the past two years. And frankly, it’s not pretty. Brain fog, “long COVID”, sudden death, all resulting from neurological damage done by this awful virus. Despite quarantines,...
Neuro Transmissions
These women are changing neuroscience
We’re celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting some incredible female neuroscientists with Stories of WiN, a blog about women in neuroscience. Join us to learn about their exciting contributions to understanding the brain from...
Neuro Transmissions
The Black Stain That Changed Neuroscience
There’s a black stain on the history of neuroscience. But don’t worry, that’s actually a good thing! Thanks to Camillo Golgi’s mysterious “black stain” and Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s artistic talents, starting in the early 1900s, we...
Neuro Transmissions
How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
A lot of the information we hear about COVID-19 surrounds how the virus impacts your lungs or how the pandemic has ravaged society due to quarantine. But what about your brain? Might coronavirus have an effect there, too? Come along with...
Nature League
Party Drugs and Octopus Hugs - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the effect of MDMA on social behavior in octopuses.
Curated Video
How Does The Brain Store and Retrieve Memories?
Memories are stored as microscopic changes at the connections between neurons in the brain. When a person wants to remember something, they have to retrieve the information from the part of the brain where it is stored. The retrieval...
Curated Video
AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 – Hands-On - Deep Learning 101
This video explains the concept of machine learning in detail. This clip is from the chapter "Appendix - Machine Learning Topics for the Legacy AWS Certified Big Data Exam" of the series "AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty (2022)...
Professor Dave Explains
Bioengineer Jessica Griffiths (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Jessica is a bioengineer at Caltech that studies the gut-brain axis, and in particular how autism-related genetic mutations impact gut dysfunction. It's pretty cutting edge stuff, let's take a look inside her lab and hear about what she...
Cerebellum
The Human Body Nervous Systems - Cranial Nerves
Experts in neuroscience help us understand why the human brain is a marvel of structure and function. This program examines the interaction of the spinal cord and nerve endings, as well as fascinating concepts like involuntary and...
Neuro Transmissions
What is the Blood-Brain Barrier?
Your brain is super fragile. So how come it doesn't get totally wrecked by infections or bacteria? Well, you've got this nifty protection called the blood-brain barrier! To help guide us through your brain's awesome defense, we brought...
Neuro Transmissions
What is Resting Potential?
How is your brain like a battery? When our neurons arenêt firing, what do they do? Resting potential can be a very difficult concept to describe, but Alie Astrocyte breaks it down to the basics so that anyone can understand it! Join us...
Catalyst University
Amino Acid Catabolism to Alpha-Ketoglutarate
Amino Acid Catabolism to Alpha-Ketoglutarate
Neuro Transmissions
How the NIH Funds American Science
President Trumpês proposed budget will cut $7 billion in NIH funding - over 20% of the total NIH budget. You might be wondering, where does NIH money go? This week, we heard from scientists across the country about their NIH funded...
Curated Video
Why Do We Dance To Music?
Why do we dance? We dance to music because of neural connections in our brain. These connections link the part that perceives music, the auditory cortex to the regions that help us move, the motor regions. We might have started creating...
Institute of Human Anatomy
The Truth About the Brain: Is it Really the Fattest Organ?
In this video, the teacher explains the misconception that the brain is the fattiest organ in the human body. They clarify that while the brain does contain fatty tissue, it is not primarily made up of fat. The video explores the...
Science ABC
Human Brain vs Supercomputer: Which One Wins?
Since the birth of the first computers, there has been a direct comparison between these “calculating machines” and the human brain. One of the common phrases circulating for decades, promoting the idea of a “brain versus computer”...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding the Ulnar Nerve: The Truth About the Funny Bone
In this video, the teacher takes viewers on a tour of the ulnar nerve, also known as the "funny bone," and explains its anatomy and function. The video also covers common causes of irritation or injury to the nerve, as well as tests and...
Visual Learning Systems
Nervous and Endocrine Systems: Nerve Cells
Students will learn the three main types of neurons and how they travel through the body's nerve network. Diagrams explain how information is received using our sensory organs and then processed by the central and peripheral nervous...
Curated Video
Introduction to the Nervous System and Neurons
This video provides an introduction to the nervous system and its key features. The speaker explains the role of the nervous system in allowing communication throughout the body using electrical impulses, and discusses the central...
de Dicto
Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi: Connecting concepts between robotics and biology
How do you connect the biological and psychological concepts to robotics and bring them back to the original biology? Understanding Human Psychology Through Robots with Prof. Angelo Cangelosi, Part 3
Fun Robotics
How AI works?
Describes how AI uses machine learning techniques to train machines using a simple example. Also, introduces the term Deep Learning briefly.
Science360
Eliciting brain plasticity to keep the body moving
With support from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation (EFRI) program, bioengineer Gert Cauwenberghs, of the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Institute for Neural Computation at the...
Curated Video
Predictive Analytics with TensorFlow 7.1: Deep Learning for Better Predictive Analytics
DL is a branch of ML based on a set of algorithms that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data. In this video, we will see artificial neural networks and deep neural networks. We will also see deep neural networks architecture....