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Curated Video
How is Epilepsy Diagnosed?
Howcast - Find out how epilepsy is diagnosed from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
What's the Difference between Seizures & Epilepsy?
Howcast - Learn the difference between seizures and epilepsy from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
What Is Epilepsy?
Howcast - Learn what epilepsy is from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
What's the Difference between Seizures & Convulsions?
Howcast - Learn the difference between seizures and convulsions from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How to Follow a Ketogenic Diet
Howcast - The ketogenic diet is for people with epilepsy who do not respond to treatments, including anti-seizure medicine.
Makematic
Who Was James Madison?
James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution”. In this video for US students grades 3-5, we learn about Madison’s remarkable life, career and legacy.
Makematic
James Madison's Legacy
James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution” – but he was so much more than that. As author of the Virginia Plan and the Bill of Rights, his political genius proved vital in the founding of our nation.
Curated Video
New Heart Monitor Offers Hope for Accurate Diagnosis of Blackouts
This video highlights a new heart monitor that is revolutionizing the diagnosis of blackouts in patients who may have been wrongly diagnosed with epilepsy. By implanting a reveal pass monitor under the skin, cardiologists can accurately...
Great Big Story
Running Beyond Limits, Katie Cooke's Inspiring Journey
Discover how Katie Cooke, despite her epilepsy, finds freedom and strength through running, challenging perceptions and inspiring many.<br/>
Great Big Story
Running Beyond Limits: Katie Cooke's Inspiring Journey
Discover how Katie Cooke, despite her epilepsy, finds freedom and strength through running, challenging perceptions and inspiring many.
Curated Video
Themes and Symbolism in Emily Dickinson's Poems
Emily Dickinson's late poetry often reflects themes of volcanic emotions and explosive psychological states, suggesting a deeply turbulent inner life. Some speculate that Dickinson's reclusiveness and intense emotional expressions in...
Curated Video
The Demarcation Problem
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin reflects upon the so-called demarcation problem: how can we find a way to objectively distinguish science from pseudo-science? He relates how it’s a very old and surprisingly complex issue.
Curated Video
Assessing Consciousness
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti reveals how, by using advanced brain-scanning techniques, he and his colleagues were able to deduce that roughly 20% of brain trauma patients who appeared unconscious at the bedside were, in fact, conscious.
Curated Video
Applying Illusions
UC San Diego psychologist of music Diana Deutsch describes how the celebrated Octave Illusion she discovered has the potential to be directly applied to the world of clinical medicine by giving an accurate, non-invasive indicator of...
Neuro Transmissions
The fad diet that cures epilepsy
This may surprise you, but the ketogenic diet was not originally intended to trim your waist or help you get shredded. Rather, the keto diet was created over a hundred years ago as a way to treat...epilepsy. That's right, this fad diet...
Neuro Transmissions
Neuroscience of Epilepsy
Almost one in twenty people will experience a seizure in their lifetime - but does having a seizure mean you have epilepsy? And what goes on in your brain when you're having a seizure, anyway? In this episode of Neuro Transmissions,...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Understanding Seizures: Types, Causes, and Management
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses seizures, epilepsy, and their relevant anatomy.
Professor Dave Explains
Brain Lateralization: The Split Brain
The brain consists of two hemispheres, the left brain and the right brain. There are many myths surrounding the specializations of each hemisphere, and the types of personalities that they produce, so let's put those to rest, while going...
Professor Dave Explains
Neuroscientist Zachary Cohen (Get to Know a Scientist!)
What does a neuroscientist do? Of course any neuroscientist studies the brain, but in what way? You may be surprised to learn that some of them, like Zachary Cohen, develop video games! That's right, take a look at this video game that...
Book Club for Kids
What Motivated the Author of "When You Reach Me"
Books allow us to transcend the world we live in, but they also help us to connect to the people and places around us. In this audio story, several young students at a school in Washington D.C. talk about the plot, characterization,...
Curated OER
Nervous Systems
Explore the nervous system's workings by first looking at the brain and its two hemispheres. Using the example of a split-brain surgery done for epilepsy, the function of language and vision is shown with an interactive component. Paul...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Science Diction: The Origin of the Word 'Epilepsy'
Medical historian Howard Markel traces descriptions of epilepsy through the millenia.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Studying Epilepsy in Sea Lions
We'll talk about epileptic seizures in sea lions, caused by algal blooms at sea, as a model for human epilepsy.