Watch Your Thoughts! Diagnostic Imaging and the Brain

One of the most flammable sports balls turns out to be ping pong balls. Watch a ping pong ball burn using Schlieren imaging. The video details how Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white, and in slow motion. 

How did we figure out what parts of the brain are responsible for speaking, walking, and remembering? Young neurologists go back in time to witness the discoveries of Paul Broca, the first physician to conduct experiments to determine...

Why does music affect people so deeply? Explore how music impacts the human brain through a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions series. The narrator discusses the anticipatory elements in different styles of music and...

The brain is a complex and mysterious organ. The history of brain research dates back to the early asylums where often unethical experiments took place. The narrator of a short video describes these experiments and their discoveries and...

Is gray matter a gray area for your human biology class? Increase the amount of information in pupils' brains by showing this mini movie from Bill Nye The Science Guy! A newspaper is used to model how the folds in this vital organ allow...

Attention, sugar addicts! Here's why you can't quit the habit. Sweet taste receptors send a signal to the brain, which activates a reward system that responds by telling you to eat again. Over activating this reward system results in a...

What does it really mean to know a language? Did you know that knowing two or more languages means that your brain might actually look and work differently than those of your monolingual friends? Discover the three different types of...

How do speech and memory operate within the human brain? Compare and contrast the localistic and distributed models with your young psychologists using this highly engaging and informative video.

If right-minded people are left, does that mean left-minded people are right? Watch a video that explains how vision and movement do rely on the left and right connectivity of the brain, but when it comes to creativity and logic, there...

We all know that the brain is responsible for our thoughts, actions, memories, and emotions, but it's far busier than we can possibly imagine. Watch this short video as it explores how life as we know it is made possible...