When you think of a brain, you probably imagine that pink, wrinkly organ in your skull, but we don’t have to stop there! Neither the brain’s functions, nor its cells, are confined to the organ we normally think of as the brain.

OCD is more than just cleanliness and order. In this video, we uncover some lesser-known OCD obsessions that can disrupt daily life. From Harm OCD to Relationship and Somatic obsessions, We discuss the origins of these surprising...

Marine biologist Edie Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association laments that “we’re destroying the ocean before we even know what’s in it”.

The brain is like a really fancy restaurant. Itês picky about who it lets inside. You have to be one of the privileged few. But even fancy restaurants need to be cleaned up and protected, right? Who does the dirty work? In this episode...

In this video, we discuss the origin, anatomy, functions, and major branches of cranial nerve VII, the facial nerve.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have published a study in the Lancet that explains how a paralyzed woman has been able to control a robot arm with her mind. The 52-year-old woman, Jan Scheuermann, in...

The nervous system is the control center of the body. But how does it actually work? In this video, we discuss what the nervous system does, the divisions of the nervous system, and how certain functions (like vision and reflexes) work.

Many of us are lucky enough to live in a world where food is easily accessible. We no longer have to hunt wild animals or scrounge for edible plants to survive. However, in spite of (or likely because of) this luxury, millions of people...

Animation of neurons firing