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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2 mo on HNAmputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
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 HNMaximizing Productivity, Physical & Mental Health with Daily Tools
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
2 mo on HNThis Is Your Brain On Stale Air
2 mo on HNBryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186
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)
2 mo on HNTry this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC
2 mo on HNUpdate on my Brain Injury & the Future of Strange Parts
2 mo on HNSebastian Seung: I am my connectome
2 mo on HNNeuroscience of Personality | Dario Nardi | Talks at Google
2 mo on HNYour Coffee Addiction Is Probably Good for You
2 mo on HNHow Children Develop Perfect Pitch
2 mo on HNYour Brain at Work
2 mo on HNOptimizing Workspace for Productivity, Focus, & Creativity
2 mo on HNThe most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast
2 mo on HNIs Your Red The Same as My Red?
2 mo on HNaltitude chamber hypoxia training guy passes out
2 mo on HNDr. Matthew Phillips - 'Metabolic Strategies as Therapies in Cancer and Neurodegeneration'
2 mo on HNThe Man With The Seven Second Memory
2 mo on HNYour Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #965 - Robert Sapolsky
1 mo on HNNeurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound | 60 Minutes
1 mo on HNUnderstanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke
1 mo on HNQ&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue
1 mo on HNYou aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett
1 mo on HNMcGurk effect - Auditory Illusion - BBC Horizon Clip
1 mo on HNBuilding Brains to Understand the World's Data
1 mo on HN14. Limbic System
1 mo on HNWHY Exercise is so Underrated (Brain Power & Movement Link)
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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?