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2-Minute Neuroscience Videos

These 2-minute videos will help you learn the basics of neuroscience in short, easy-to-understand clips. The videos below are in alphabetical order; new videos will be added to this page regularly. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel here to get updates when new videos are added.

2-Minute Neuroscience: Abducens Nerve (Cranial Nerve VI)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Accessory Nerve (Cranial Nerve XI)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Acetylcholine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Action Potential

2-Minute Neuroscience: ADHD

2-Minute Neuroscience: Agonism, Antagonism, & Allosteric Modulation

2-Minute Neuroscience: Alcohol

2-Minute Neuroscience: Alien Hand Syndrome

2-Minute Neuroscience: Alzheimer's Disease

2-Minute Neuroscience: Amphetamine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Amygdala

2-Minute Neuroscience: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Autism

2-Minute Neuroscience: Basal Ganglia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Bell's Palsy

2-Minute Neuroscience: Benzodiazepines

2-Minute Neuroscience: Beta-Endorphin

2-Minute Neuroscience: Binge-Eating Disorder

2-Minute Neuroscience: Blood supply of the brain

2-Minute Neuroscience: Blood-Brain Barrier

2-Minute Neuroscience: Brain Aneurysms

2-Minute Neuroscience: Brain tumors

2-Minute Neuroscience: Brainstem

2-Minute Neuroscience: Broca's area

2-Minute Neuroscience: Caffeine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

2-Minute Neuroscience: CBD

2-Minute Neuroscience: Cerebellum

2-Minute Neuroscience: Cerebral Cortex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Cochlea

2-Minute Neuroscience: Cochlear Implants

2-Minute Neuroscience: Concussions

2-Minute Neuroscience: Corneal Reflex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Corpus Callosum

2-Minute Neuroscience: Corticospinal Tract

2-Minute Neuroscience: COVID-19 & the brain

2-Minute Neuroscience: Deep Brain Stimulation

2-Minute Neuroscience: Direct Pathway of the Basal Ganglia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Directional Terms in Neuroscience

2-Minute Neuroscience: Divisions of the Nervous System

2-Minute Neuroscience: DMT

2-Minute Neuroscience: Dopamine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Early Neural Development

2-Minute Neuroscience: Effects of Cocaine on the Brain

2-Minute Neuroscience: Electroencephalography (EEG)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Epilepsy

2-Minute Neuroscience: Exterior of the Spinal Cord

2-Minute Neuroscience: Facial Nerve (Cranial Nerve VII)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Fatal Insomnia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Frontotemporal Dementia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

2-Minute Neuroscience: GABA

2-Minute Neuroscience: Glial Cells

2-Minute Neuroscience: Glossopharyngeal Nerve (Cranial Nerve IX)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Glutamate

2-Minute Neuroscience: Hippocampus

2-Minute Neuroscience: HPA Axis

2-Minute Neuroscience: Huntington's Disease

2-Minute Neuroscience: Hydrocephalus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Hypoglossal Nerve (Cranial Nerve XII)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Hypothalamus & Pituitary Gland

2-Minute Neuroscience: Indirect Pathway of the Basal Ganglia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Ketamine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Knee-jerk Reflex

2-Minute Neuroscience: L-DOPA

2-Minute Neuroscience: Limbic System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Lobes and Landmarks of the Brain Surface (Lateral View)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Long-Term Depression (LTD)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)

2-Minute Neuroscience: LSD

2-Minute Neuroscience: Lucid Dreaming

2-Minute Neuroscience: Lyme Disease & the Brain

2-Minute Neuroscience: MDMA

2-Minute Neuroscience: Medulla Oblongata

2-Minute Neuroscience: Melatonin

2-Minute Neuroscience: Membrane Potential

2-Minute Neuroscience: Meninges

2-Minute Neuroscience: Meningitis

2-Minute Neuroscience: Methadone

2-Minute Neuroscience: Methamphetamine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Methylphenidate

2-Minute Neuroscience: Midbrain

2-Minute Neuroscience: Migraine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Motor Cortex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Motor Neurons

2-Minute Neuroscience: Multiple Sclerosis

2-Minute Neuroscience: Myelin

2-Minute Neuroscience: Narcolepsy

2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuroimaging

2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuromuscular Junction

2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuron

2-Minute Neuroscience: Neurotransmitter Release

2-Minute Neuroscience: Nicotine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Norepinephrine

2-Minute Neuroscience: Nucleus Accumbens

2-Minute Neuroscience: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Oculomotor Nerve (Cranial Nerve III)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Olfaction

2-Minute Neuroscience: Olfactory Nerve (Cranial Nerve I)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Optic Nerve (Cranial Nerve II)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Oxytocin

2-Minute Neuroscience: Pain and the Anterolateral System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Parasympathetic Nervous System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Parkinson's Disease

2-Minute Neuroscience: Periaqueductal gray

2-Minute Neuroscience: Phantom Limb

2-Minute Neuroscience: Phototransduction

2-Minute Neuroscience: Pineal Gland

2-Minute Neuroscience: Pons

2-Minute Neuroscience: Prefrontal Cortex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Primary Somatosensory Cortex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Psilocybin

2-Minute Neuroscience: PTSD

2-Minute Neuroscience: Receptors and Ligands

2-Minute Neuroscience: Restless Legs Syndrome

2-Minute Neuroscience: Retina

2-Minute Neuroscience: Reward System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Schizophrenia

2-Minute Neuroscience: Seasonal Affective Disorder

2-Minute Neuroscience: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Serotonin

2-Minute Neuroscience: Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Sleep Paralysis

2-Minute Neuroscience: Sleepwalking

2-Minute Neuroscience: Sodium-Potassium Pump

2-Minute Neuroscience: Spina Bifida

2-Minute Neuroscience: Spinal Cord Cross-section

2-Minute Neuroscience: Stages of sleep

2-Minute Neuroscience: Striatum

2-Minute Neuroscience: Stroke

2-Minute Neuroscience: Substantia Nigra

2-Minute Neuroscience: Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Sympathetic Nervous System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Synaptic Transmission

2-Minute Neuroscience: Taste

2-Minute Neuroscience: Thalamus

2-Minute Neuroscience: THC

2-Minute Neuroscience: Tinnitus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Touch and the Dorsal Columns-Medial Lemniscus

2-Minute Neuroscience: Touch Receptors

2-Minute Neuroscience: Tourette Syndrome

2-Minute Neuroscience: Trigeminal Nerve (Cranial Nerve V)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Trochlear Nerve (Cranial Nerve IV)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Vagus Nerve (Cranial Nerve X)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Ventral Tegmental Area

2-Minute Neuroscience: Ventricles

2-Minute Neuroscience: Vertigo

2-Minute Neuroscience: Vestibular System

2-Minute Neuroscience: Vestibulocochlear Nerve (Cranial Nerve VIII)

2-Minute Neuroscience: Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

2-Minute Neuroscience: Wernicke's area

2-Minute Neuroscience: Withdrawal Reflex

2-Minute Neuroscience: Zolpidem (Ambien)

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