SciShow Psych: 3 Ways Physics Can Help Us Understand the Brain

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring this episode. The first 100 people to go to http://blinkist.com/scishowpsych are going to get unlimited access for 1 week to try it out. You’ll also get 25% off if you want the full membership. Brains are mysterious! Living brains are particularly tough to study, but sometimes scientists can use techniques from other disciplines to get a clearer picture. Here are some ways scientists are adapting tools developed for looking at stars and atoms to unlock the secrets of living brains. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources https://www.eso.org/public/usa/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/ https://www.nso.edu/research/adaptive-optics/ https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/elt-res-comp-slide5/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4508 https://news.stanford.edu/2019/09/28/particle-physicists-lend-hand-advance-neuroscience/ https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2018-06-27-next-gen-eeg-could-help-bring-back-lost-brain-function.aspx https://physicsworld.com/a/seismic-imaging-technology-sees-deep-inside-the-brain/ Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/computed-tomography-of-the-brain-swkwksruiqfefdjj https://www.videoblocks.com/video/primal-earth-images-night-sky-only-milkyway-stars-cosmos-rf1yrzttzj74a21up https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_adaptive_thin_shell_mirror_delivered_to_ESO.jpg https://www.eso.org/public/usa/images/elt-res-comp-slide5/ https://www.videoblocks.com/video/carotid-artery-3729-di1lno0 https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4508 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-connected-with-cables-for-eeg-in-front-of-monitor-gm171147321-10204457 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CMS_Higgs-event.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/a-patient-moving-into-mri-scan-machine-hzri8adsmjfr1ecge https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ambulance-on-a-white-background-gm177362301-20493412 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/geologic-fold-gm1166491794-321355539 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-020-0240-8


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