PickVidsBest Neuroscience & the brain Videos
The 92 Neuroscience & the brain videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 13 intermediate, 77 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Andrew Huberman, TED, Stanford.
Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? | Part 1
The Thought Emporium grows living rat neurons on an electrode array and tries to train them to play Doom.
RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain
An RSA Animate summary of Iain McGilchrist's lecture on the divided brain, arguing the brain's two hemispheres attend to the world differently and that this has shaped culture and society.
Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues in this TED talk that evolution shaped perception to track fitness rather than truth.
The Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 3ALL
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selective attention test
The original invisible gorilla awareness test by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, in which viewers count basketball passes and often miss a gorilla crossing the scene.
#NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) with Dr. Andrew Huberman
A roughly 10-minute guided Non-Sleep Deep Rest session voiced by neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.
Growing Human Neurons on a Home Made Electrode Array
The Thought Emporium builds a homemade multi-electrode array, grows human neurons on it and attempts to take readings.
Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.
Why We Sleep: Science of Sleep & Dreams | Matthew Walker | Talks at Google
Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker presents the science of sleep and dreams and how sleep affects health and lifespan, based on his book Why We Sleep.
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
Andrew Huberman discusses ADHD, its biology and myths, behavioral and pharmacologic treatments, and training protocols to improve focus for people with or without ADHD.
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)
Andres Gomez Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute presents a model of DMT experiences using hyperbolic geometry and dynamical systems theory.
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta and author of On Intelligence, about the Thousand Brains Theory and reverse-engineering the neocortex.
Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
Johns Hopkins APL shows Les Baugh, a bilateral shoulder-level amputee, controlling two Modular Prosthetic Limbs by thought after a short training period.
Matter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin speaks at a Harvard Extension student event on bioelectricity, body intelligence and regenerative medicine.
Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
Lex Fridman interviews MIT psycholinguist Edward Gibson on human language, syntax, grammar and how large language models relate to them.
How Your Brain Works & Changes
Andrew Huberman introduces how the nervous system produces sensation, emotion and behavior, and how neuroplasticity lets us change it.
Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston
Neuroscientist Karl Friston gives a 15-minute talk on the free energy principle, covering Markov blankets, Bayesian model evidence and global brain theories.
The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber
A dialogue with Gary Weber on the default mode network, meditation and non-dual awakening, with discussion of psychedelics, thought and time.
Maximizing Productivity, Physical & Mental Health with Daily Tools
A long Huberman Lab episode laying out science-based daily tools for focus, sleep, exercise and mental and physical health, organized around a 24-hour day.
I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)
An artist describes discovering she has aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, and how it affects her work.
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
Bobby McFerrin uses audience participation at a World Science Festival event to demonstrate how instinctively people follow the pentatonic scale.
This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
Tom Scott features Kurtis Baute inside a sealed homemade biodome as carbon dioxide builds up, showing how stale air with elevated CO2 affects cognitive function.
Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
Lex Fridman interviews Bryan Johnson, founder of Kernel and previously Braintree, about brain-computer interfaces and Kernel's non-invasive brain monitoring hardware.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on the biological underpinnings of religiosity, from his human behavioral biology course.