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)
6 mo on HN"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
5 mo on HNThe Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
3 mo on HNRobert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
3 mo on HN23. Language
3 mo on HNThe Neuroanatomy of ADHD and thus how to treat ADHD - CADDAC - Dr Russel Barkley part 3ALL
3 mo on HNThe Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)
2 mo on HNFree Energy Principle — Karl Friston
2 mo on HNDr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
2 mo on HNWhy hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky)
1 mo on HN14. Limbic System
1 mo on HN21. Chaos and Reductionism
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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?