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Nervous System

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Lab equipment in background with illustration of connected neurons. Caption: glia activate and help fix the neurons
#askMIT
Episode 1
2 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Shirtless muscular man flexing his bicep. Caption: When the muscle fibers fire and contract,
27 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 10
A woman. Caption: So we found a way to control prosthetic limbs.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 19
1 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram of a lock in the backdrop of a neuron. Caption: So, a neuroethicist looks at the privacy implications.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 21
51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
illustration depicts a close knitted structure of the nerves. Caption: are now hardwired in because we use them so often.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 14
1 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital illustration of the lateral view of the brain. Text on image reads, "Working Memory." "Cognitive System with Limited Capacity." "Transient Holding Processing and Manipulation of Information."
Behavioral Science
Episode 4
30 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Bill Nye holding an infant. Caption: You, she, and I have the same number of brain cells
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Season 2 / Ep 14
23 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
A teenager wearing a beanie with skull and crossbones and a hoodie with a skull, sitting at a desk and writing on a piece of paper. Caption: he couldn't read or write.
24 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course Biology: The Nervous System
Crash Course Biology
Season 0 / Ep 126
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of neurons and dendrites exchanging signals. Caption: The addicted brain has changed.
24 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a gray brain with areas highlighted in green. Title card reads, "How Does Your Brain Learn? Changes in active brain regions could be an indicator of 'training related performance gains.'"
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurry city in background. Orchestra of the senses.
Human + The Future of Our Senses
Episode 2
48 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person slightly squinting. Caption: I hear that, but I probably won't remember the numbers.
23 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
ASL
A comparison of passive echolocation used in vehicles and active echolocation in dolphins.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 18
16 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man talks to us while moving his hands.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 18
8 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Diagram shows brain nerve cells branching like plant roots.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 6 / Ep 11
8 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man sits at a desk that has a computer, wires, and electrical and lab equipment on it. He holds a blue wire to a battery. Behind him is a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a framed butterfly and different dinosaur skeleton miniatures.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 9 / Ep 7
18 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Making Decisions Without a Brain
Journey to the Microcosmos
Season 2 / Ep 15
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Lab Six: The Brain (Spanish)
Lab Six (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 19
27 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Lab Six: The Brain II (Spanish)
Lab Six (Spanish)
Season 3 / Ep 20
25 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of a human skull with the eyeballs still present. Caption: The human eye is an organ -- an exquisite sensory organ --
The Miracle Of The Human Body
Season 0 / Ep 1
28 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of tubular structures. Nova science Now. Caption: The answer -- mirror neurons,
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Plastic 3D color-coded model of the human brain. Caption: The brain's maximum potential?
56 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
3D rendering of a neuron, resembling a ball of plant roots or a rhizome. Text reads, "Brain Basics."
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 1
28 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black-and-white illustration of a side-view X-ray of a human's head. The brain is composed of pink, green, and purple fiber-like masses forming separate structures. Text reads, "Mapping the Brain."
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 2
28 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person uses tweezers to hold up a tiny glowing computer part in front of their face which is visible in the blurred background. Text reads, Brains, Computers, and Technology.
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 5
28 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital illustration of five stages of a brain's growth, from a small, smooth lump into a bigger shaped organ with bulges, grooves, and fissures. Text reads, "The Developing Brain."
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 3
28 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Oval-shaped photo of a brightly lit city street full of people sitting at tables, standing, and in motion. Behind this, a black and white digital rendering of neurons and networks. Text reads, "The Thinking and Social Brain."
Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain
Episode 4
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Drawing of a human torso and head with a cross section of the chest removed to show the human heart and lungs. Caption: It has been seen as the site of our emotions,
48 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer screen showing a cross section of the human brain. Caption: and it's a fundamentally new way to see the brain.
Science Nation
Episode 18
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
MRI cross section of the human brain. Caption: (narrator) Shelton easily distinguishes the two learning types
Science Nation
Episode 150
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person with a fabric cap strapped to their head. The cap has metal rivets and wires attached. Captions: (female) it feels maybe like a mild itchy or tingling sensation.
Science Nation
Episode 8
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person with a virtual reality headset on. Caption: what sorts of stimuli increase sickness or reduce it.
Science Nation
Episode 162
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person wearing a cap covered in wires while manipulating controls which guide something on the computer screen in front of them. Caption: how brain circuitry controls how we move.
Science Nation
Episode 37
3 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Hands of an elder person. Caption: (narrator) It worked to steady his shaky hands.
Science Nation
Episode 246
4 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A team of psychologists monitors a human brain. Caption: our minds process what we see.
Science Nation
Episode 243
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
3D diagram of the human brain. Caption: to break blood-brain barrier,
Science Nation
Episode 157
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person placing an object under a microscope. Caption: for nerves to regrow themselves
Science Nation
Episode 81
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cross section of the human brain. Caption: creating a virtual 3-D image of the brain.
Science Nation
Episode 119
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person wearing a cap with wires and sensors attached while looking at a computer screen. Caption: by studying how brain regions interact,
Science Nation
Episode 105
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two line graphs with multiple overlapping, rising and falling lines. Graphs are labelled Reproducing Topoplot and Improvising Topolot. Caption: when professional musicians are playing composed music
Science Nation
Episode 124
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Sea slug crawling on the sea floor. Caption: in the nervous systems of slugs and other animals.
Science Nation
Episode 207
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Graphic of spherical object with multiple web-like tubular connections. Caption: They can't see any information in their visual world.
Science Nation
Episode 96
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Brain activity during cognitive control. Prefrontal cortex of an adult shows significantly more activity in multiple areas as compared to a teen. Caption: that teens could put to use in stressful situations.
Science Nation
Episode 110
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person with head laying on pillow while wearing a cap with wires attached. Caption: and how you can boost how much you remember while you snooze.
Science Nation
Episode 60
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Wire frame diagram of a round building with columns and arches. Caption: They're rebuilding Rome pixel by pixel
Science Nation
Episode 130
2 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Do We See Color?
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 12
4 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do We Dream?
SciShow Kids
Season 2018 / Ep 18
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do We Get Dizzy?
SciShow Kids
Season 2017 / Ep 26
3 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Still image from: SciShow: The Truth About Truth Serum
SciShow
Season 2014 / Ep 186
3 minutes 32 seconds
Illustration of nerve cells and the connections between them. Caption: It targets the brain's reward system
Talk It Out
Episode 7
13 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person shining a light into someone's eye and looking closely at it. Caption: A migraine doesn't feel like a typical headache.
Teen Kids News
Episode 1216
2 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of the human heart. Caption: and serotonin, which causes blood vessels to narrow,
The Brain
Episode 2
20 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Kids sitting on the floor in a classroom setting. Caption: They feel secure because they know what to expect next.
The Brain
Episode 1
21 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer image displaying a cross section of the human head with a path through the brain highlighted in red. Caption: The whole journey from one neuron to another
13 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Brain Wave Literature--Melancholy and Creativity (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 3
28 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Brain Wave Literature--Melancholy and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 4
27 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Exercise Neuroscience (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 16
27 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: The Electric Pulse of Art--Creation and Recreation in the Brain (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 9
28 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Anatomical illustrated drawing of the left hemisphere of the human brain.
14 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A man sleeping with his face covered by his hat. Caption: so little was known about sleep, it was understood as time
46 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Trace wears safety goggles and has a hammer in his hand. Caption: Ow.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Microscopic view of small, tube-like structures. Caption: Two kinds of cells make up the living world:
15 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Computer screen showing a satellite map with population data. Caption: We can identify the number of people
Volcano Web Shorts
Episode 6
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Simple diagram shows the nerves and skeletal structure of the chest area.
22 minutes
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Black and white photo with an indistinct sketch that looks as if it could be either a rabbit or a duck. Nearby text with two questions reads, “Rabbit?” and “Duck?”
Wild Explorers
Season 0 / Ep 27
2 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Closeup of a human eye. Caption: of specialized cells called receptors
19 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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