Curated Video
Exploring Phsychosis and Its Symptoms
During his senior year of college, Dara Sanandaji had a manic episode that led to a Bipolar I diagnosis. In this series, he is exploring his illness and how it has impacted his life, both positively and negatively. In this first video,...
Institute of Human Anatomy
Sleep Paralysis | The Waking NIGHTMARE
In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses the anatomy and mechanisms behind the parasomnia disorder known as sleep paralysis. He explores how the brain enters this state and delves into the cultural associations...
Orkidbox
Get Inspired by Yayoi Kusama
Welcome to the channel! This is 'Art Practice’, a series of short videos giving an intro into the art practice of artists around the world. You can use this video if your’e new to creativity, a seasoned artist looking for new techniques...
Curated Video
What is Schizophrenia? - It's More Than Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is the most serious disorder we have in psychiatry. It is much more than hallucinations. It’s an illness where the person’s main problem is being psychotic. With psychosis, you are not able to tell what’s real and what’s...
Curated Video
What Is Psychosis like and How Do You Get It?
What is psychosis like for the people who experience it? In this video I discuss the symptoms of psychosis. Psychosis is the inability to determine reality from non-reality. It is a set of symptoms that can appear in many different...
Curated Video
Subclinical Psychosis – Can You Be A Little Psychotic?
Subclinical psychosis is a term some researchers have used to describe psychotic symptoms in people who don’t have a primary psychotic illness or as a way to identify people who are prone to later get a psychotic illness. It’s not really...
Curated Video
4 Signs Your Schizophrenia May Be Treatment Resistant
About 30% of people with schizophrenia continue to have psychotic symptoms even on medication. Treatment resistant is when you don’t have an adequate resolution of your symptoms after taking at least two antipsychotic medications that...
Curated Video
Depression vs. Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - How To Tell The Difference
In this video, I go over the difference between the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and depression with psychosis. I also define negative vs. positive symptoms. Eugen Bleuler expanded our understanding of schizophrenia by introducing...
Curated Video
Psychotic Episodes
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC,and author of the bestselling memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, gives a personal account of what a psychotic episode...
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
How the war on drugs BLOCKS life-saving treatment
For a long time, American society has generally accepted the system in place that has protected us from the detrimental effects of scheduled drugs. But what if the "most dangerous drugs", Schedule 1 controlled substances, could actually...
Curated Video
Yayoi Kusama: Great art Explained
Yayoi Kusama lives in a psychiatric institution, which she entered voluntarily in 1977. She is now in her nineties and still works every single day. Known for her repeated dot patterns, her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a...
Curated Video
Night Hag Syndrome: Exploring Sleep Paralysis and Hallucinations
Learn about the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, also known as the night hag syndrome. This video explains how sleep paralysis occurs when the body is in a sleep-like state while the mind and eyes are awake, causing a feeling of being...
PBS
Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
A psychiatrist holding up an inky blob and saying "what does this look like?" might be the most famous psycholigical test of all time. Originally developed by Hermann Rorschach as means of detecting schizophrenia, this little known and...
Barcroft Media
My Schizophrenia Doesn’t Make Me A Monster
A STUDENT with schizophrenia has set up an organisation to help other pupils with the condition - despite struggling with near-constant horror film-style hallucinations. Cecilia McGough, 23, studies health policy administration at...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Macbeth - Theme of Appearance Vs Reality
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores the tension between appearances and reality. See how Macbeth takes place in a world full of chaos, where what is real often turns out to be very different to how it first...
Crash Course
Altered States
Episode 10 of a 13-part psychology Crash Course builds on learning from previous videos to explain the workings of altered states of consciousness. Hypnosis, psychoactive drugs, and non-drug induced hallucinations are all explored in a...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations
In his latest book, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the strange world of hallucinations, and documents his own experiments with psychedelic drugs.