Instructional Video2:23
Curated Video

How is Epilepsy Diagnosed?

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Find out how epilepsy is diagnosed from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Instructional Video2:55
Curated Video

What's the Difference between Seizures & Epilepsy?

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Learn the difference between seizures and epilepsy from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Instructional Video2:32
Curated Video

What Is Epilepsy?

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Learn what epilepsy is from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Instructional Video1:50
Curated Video

What's the Difference between Seizures & Convulsions?

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Learn the difference between seizures and convulsions from Steve Wolf, MD and Patty McGoldrick, NP in this Howcast video.
Instructional Video1:17
Curated Video

How to Follow a Ketogenic Diet

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - The ketogenic diet is for people with epilepsy who do not respond to treatments, including anti-seizure medicine.
Instructional Video2:05
Makematic

Who Was James Madison?

K - 8th
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.
Instructional Video2:31
Makematic

James Madison's Legacy

K - 8th
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.
Instructional Video1:12
Curated Video

New Heart Monitor Offers Hope for Accurate Diagnosis of Blackouts

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:15
Great Big Story

Running Beyond Limits, Katie Cooke's Inspiring Journey

12th - Higher Ed
Discover how Katie Cooke, despite her epilepsy, finds freedom and strength through running, challenging perceptions and inspiring many.<br/>
Instructional Video3:11
Great Big Story

Running Beyond Limits: Katie Cooke's Inspiring Journey

12th - Higher Ed
Discover how Katie Cooke, despite her epilepsy, finds freedom and strength through running, challenging perceptions and inspiring many.
Instructional Video4:01
Curated Video

Themes and Symbolism in Emily Dickinson's Poems

9th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:19
Curated Video

The Demarcation Problem

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video4:42
Curated Video

Assessing Consciousness

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video4:42
Curated Video

Applying Illusions

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video14:09
Neuro Transmissions

The fad diet that cures epilepsy

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video19:29
The Wall Street Journal

Man And Machine Part 2

Higher Ed
Treating Neurological Diseases with Brain Interfaces
Instructional Video7:16
Neuro Transmissions

Neuroscience of Epilepsy

12th - Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video21:55
Institute of Human Anatomy

Understanding Seizures: Types, Causes, and Management

Higher Ed
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses seizures, epilepsy, and their relevant anatomy.
Instructional Video5:34
Professor Dave Explains

Brain Lateralization: The Split Brain

9th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video6:21
Professor Dave Explains

Neuroscientist Zachary Cohen (Get to Know a Scientist!)

9th - Higher Ed
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...
Podcast5:57
Book Club for Kids

What Motivated the Author of "When You Reach Me"

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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,...
Instructional Video17:39
Curated OER

Nervous Systems

9th - 12th
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...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Science Diction: The Origin of the Word 'Epilepsy'

9th - 10th
Medical historian Howard Markel traces descriptions of epilepsy through the millenia.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Studying Epilepsy in Sea Lions

9th - 10th
We'll talk about epileptic seizures in sea lions, caused by algal blooms at sea, as a model for human epilepsy.