Neuroscience & the brain Videos Recommended on Hacker News (83)
Neuroscience & the brain is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 83 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 274 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Neuroscience: brain function, neurons, memory, perception, sleep, Sapolsky, Huberman, split brain, brain-computer interfaces, biocomputing, human echolocation, cognitive neuroscience.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology: “Best course I've ever done.” — an HN commenter, 2017.
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15 mo on HN1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
12 mo on HNStanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
11 mo on HNWhat Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
10 mo on HNControlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
9 mo on HNPersonal Growth Series: Dr. William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Perfo...
7 mo on HNMaster Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake
6 mo on HNWhat Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
7 mo on HNYou Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger
6 mo on HN"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
5 mo on HNBrains, Sex, and Machine Learning
5 mo on HNWhy You Should Put YOUR MASK On First (My Brain Without Oxygen) - Smarter Every Day 157
5 mo on HNThe Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
3 mo on HNThe effects of DBS on the motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
3 mo on HNBreakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google
3 mo on HNWhy Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch
3 mo on HNThe Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133
4 mo on HNWhy you DON'T want Perfect Pitch
3 mo on HNYour Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
3 mo on HN23. Language
3 mo on HNMy stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain
3 mo on HNDo we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED
3 mo on HNThe Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 3ALL
3 mo on HNselective attention test
3 mo on HN#NSDR (Non-Sleep Deep Rest) with Dr. Andrew Huberman
3 mo on HNWhy Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
3 mo on HNThe Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)
2 mo on HNJeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
2 mo on HNMatter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
2 mo on HNEdward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
2 mo on HNHow Your Brain Works & Changes
2 mo on HNFree Energy Principle — Karl Friston
2 mo on HNThe Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber
2 mo on HNI have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)
2 mo on HNBobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
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Mentioned in HN threads about neuroscience & the brain, though never formally recommended:
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development · Next Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old) · How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google · Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco · Decerebrate Cat walks and exhibits multiple gait patterns · The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price · Watch How This Blind Man Uses Echo Location To Ride a Bike · Smarter Every Day Challenge: Learn the Backwards Brain Bike · Did People Used To Look Older?