Created by the Center of Excellence for Medical Multimedia (CEMM), the Traumatic Brain Injury site features this Interactive Brain to help you understand brain areas and their functions.
The Brain from Top to Bottom
Here’s a great site from McGill University explaining brain anatomy and function by topic and level of complexity.
Split-Brain Demonstrations
Here’s a clip from Scientific American Frontiers featuring Michael Gazzaniga discussing and demonstrating experiments with split-brain patient Joe.
Use 10% of Your Brain?
In this excellent video from TedEd, Richard Cytowic addresses the myth that we only use 10% of our brains, explaining how this myth started, why it is perpetuated and most importantly, why it’s wrong.
Publication Bias in Medicine
Ben Goldacre’s impassioned plea for greater transparency in medical research publishing. When only “successful” results are able to get published, we can be misled about how effective or how safe treatments are.
The Facilitated Communication Controversy
Once again we have a video example demonstrating how a simple test could be used to refute a claim. In this case, despite their best intentions and honest belief in the power of FC, the facilitators were unconsciously controlling the … Read More
Was Hans really Clever?
Here’s a good video summary of the case of Clever Hans and how Oskar Pfungst was able to figure out that Wilhelm von Osten was inadvertently signaling answers to Hans. And even though Hans wasn’t actually doing mathematics, he was … Read More
Video Summary of the Power of the Placebo Effect
This popular video demonstrates the strange powers of the placebo effect and offers a number of surprising results that have been found from placebo studies.
Debunking Therapeutic Touch
In another great clip from Penn and Teller we see how Emily Rosa’s simple experiment helped to debunk the practitioners of Therapeutic Touch. It can be surprising just how quickly these types of interventions become popular and in some cases … Read More
Penn and Teller demonstrate the Placebo Effect
This clip from Penn and Teller’s Showtime series Bullshit! offers a funny look at how people may come to believe in the effects of some rather bizarre interventions. Of course, while this is humorous, we should be careful not to … Read More