PBS
Philip & Julia Go to THERAPY!
How does your emotional history impact your financial decisions? We went to therapy to find out!
The Guardian
Life Without the Sun
For 53 years, John Kapellas enjoyed the bright sky of the western US, but one day he started to burn, blister and break out in rashes whenever he was exposed to light. Now allergic to the entire spectrum of light, Kapellas has spent the...
Curated Video
Life After My ADHD Diagnosis: Two Years Later
It's been two years since I've been diagnosed with ADHD. Let's talk about it.
Curated Video
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
Curated Video
Can AI Change Your Memories? | Neurofeedback Therapy, Explained
Neurofeedback therapy could replace exposure therapy for people with trauma-related psychiatric conditions. But will it work?
Curated Video
Evaluating Psychotherapy
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes how, despite a lack of rigorous studies demonstrating the impact of psychoanalysis, for many people - including herself - psychoanalysis played a very significant positive role in their...
Curated Video
Situational Denial
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how, more than 4 decades after his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, many people still deny the importance of situational effects.
Curated Video
Repressed Memory Aftermath
Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) reveals the social fallout resulting from so-called "repressed memory therapy."
Curated Video
Investigating Psychotherapy
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, gives her views on psychotherapy’s benefits as both a patient and therapist.
Neuro Transmissions
Why you feel depressed during winter
If you often feel the winter blues, it may be more than normal sadness. While some welcome the change in seasons and the fresh snow of winter, others find themselves falling into feelings of depression. But this isn’t just short-lived...
Neuro Transmissions
How YOU can help stop Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65. So if so many people have it, why don’t we have a cure? Let’s talk about why finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease...
Neuro Transmissions
How to cope with your awful family at the holidays
The holidays are supposed to be the best time of the year. But let’s face it, family can be stressful. They don’t just know how to push your buttons, they installed them there in the first place! But that doesn’t mean your family...
Neuro Transmissions
How To Cope With Touch Starvation
Physical touch is a vital part of life that benefits both our mental and physical health. But when we’re deprived of human contact for extended periods of time...like many of us have been during pandemic, we might experience touch...
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 Therapists Treat Toxic Masculinity
There is more than one way to be a man. So why are so many men expected to act a certain way? As we can see from both personal experience and from research, traditional masculinity can be harmful. Masculinity in and of itself is not a...
Neuro Transmissions
Are Rage Rooms a healthy way to release anger?
Anger is a basic human emotion. We all feel it at one point or another. But what do you do when you get REAL angry? For many of us, we end up expressing that anger by yelling, slamming a door, or even hitting something...or someone. But...
Neuro Transmissions
Why nature is good for your mental health
Back in the day, doctors would send patients with anxiety and depression into the mountains because the fresh air would do them good. Though they did not have the research to back it up, they knew that nature was good for our mental...
Neuro Transmissions
Your therapist should play D&D with you. Here's why.
It might sound strange to hear about playing Dungeons & Dragons in therapy, but tabletop RPGs like DnD actually have some real healing power. By the end of this video, you'll have an even greater appreciation for this collaborative game....
Neuro Transmissions
Why I Became A Therapist
I really love being a therapist, but whenever I get asked how I decided to become one, my answer always seems to change. I think that’s because my path was not as clear-cut and straightforward as I would like to believe. Anyway, check...
Neuro Transmissions
We need to talk about bad therapists.
If you or someone you know has been in therapy before, there's a deceent chance that you have a story about a "bad therapist". But how can you tell? And what can you do about it? Therapy is a complex process that combines the...
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...
Vlogbrothers
My Physicalmental Illness
In which John discusses labyrinthitis, OCD, categories, the body in thought, and the body in pain.
Vlogbrothers
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, and along the way reveals some surprising information, including that Americans spend more of...