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Make it Brain (with Dr. Brein) — 69 episodes

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LED lights for your ears? Lets fact check 🦭 #neuroscience #viral #factcheck #debunk #scientist #...

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What happens in dreamworld doesnt always stay in dreamworld. #neuroscience #dreams #love #researc...

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Interested in trying out hypnosis? Check out the Reveri app, founded by Stanford neuroscientist D...

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Is hypnosis real? 🤔 #hypnosis #neuroscience #factorcap #stagehypnosis

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Replying to @Lust2Wonder here it is: the neuroscience of hypnagogic states 🧠 #neuroscience #sle...

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Have you experienced the hypnagogic state? #hypnagogic #hallucinations #sleep #neuroscience

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Is hypnosis real? 🤨 #hypnosis #neuroscience #perception

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Let’s make this very clear: lobotomies are BAD 🙅‍♂️ (TW: violence) #psychiatry #lobotomy #scienc...

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Hear me out… If you told people in the 1700s that one day the whole world would be connected, do ...

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*Please* protect your eyes on April 8th! #casestudy #solareclipse #retina #scicomm

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Is this the way to get people to sign up for studies?? 🤔

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Are EnChroma colorblind glasses a scam?? What do they actually do to your eyes? I smell a fact c...

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Should you be worried about 440Hz music? Not to fret - it’s significantly less toxic than my comm...

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Let’s talk about ALS, and the role of the gut-brain-axis 🦠🧠 #ALS #gutbrainaxis #neuroscience #s...

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Raise your hand if you think you can do this 👋 *That* is the Dunning-Kruger Effect ________ This...

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*free resource alert!* If you or anyone close to you is affected by dementia (or ALS or Glioblast...

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A recent study [Cho et al., 2023] links air pollution (particulate matter) to brain degeneration ...

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How did you do? 🚔 THIS is implicit bias. ________ This video was supported by the Pulitzer Cente...

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Thoughts?

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Is your brain really necessary? #neuroscience #hypotheticalquestions #scicomm #science #learnont...

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How does the gut-brain axis … *work?* 🤔 #neuroscience #gutbrainconnection #learnontiktok

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Trust your gut

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Can an AI chatbot really be your therapist? ________ This video was supported by the Pulitzer Ce...

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What is “moral imagination?” _________ This video was supported by the Pulitzer Center through th...

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I think we need to give a shoutout to sign language interpreters for science talks! Just listen ...

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Which gender does the trans brain resemble? ______ This video was supported by the Pulitzer Cente...

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2023-11-06T22:00:22.000Z

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I cant believe it… thanks to TikTok, I just received an award from the most prestigious society i...

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Replying to @user9329217976922 Does MDMA (aka molly) cause brain damage? Here’s your answer - and...

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About the drug MDMA's affect on the brain

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Let me share with you one of my FAVORITE things in neuroscience: “hippocampal replay” #neuroscien...

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Why dont phones appear in our dreams?? 🤔💭📱#neuroscience

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I ANALYZED MY TIKTOK DATA & PUBLISHED IT IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

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Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. In the spirit of looking out for one another, let’s discuss: what...

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Is social media addictive? 👀📱

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Can more sleep make you more athletic? 😳🏀 #sleep #basketball #scicomm

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This mind-blowing study shows that tylenol not only reduces pain, it can lower how much empathy w...

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This video isn’t really about vaccines or autism -- it’s about *reality*

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2023-06-21T21:31:17.000Z

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Can your brain make you happy all the time? 🤔🦭 — Stitch w/ @peteholmes

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In Iceland, I was asked if I think more scientists should be on social media. Here’s what I said....

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The brain “listens” to the heart to guide emotion. Wild paper alert!🚨(Hsueh & Chen et al., Natur...

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Breakthrough in psychedelic science!🍄( Vargas et al., Science, 2023) This paper - just published...

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Research-based skincare! 💪 Check out OneSkin using the link in my bio, and use code BREIN15 for ...

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When we see others in pain, the brain walks a thin line between empathy and pleasure… depending o...

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This unbelievable study (Smith et al., 2021, Science) suggests that mice can transfer pain throug...

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Is social media ruining humanity? Stitch w/ @tamarciment

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Careful with that Tylenol, it might make you less empathetic 👀

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Are purple lights being used to manilulate your brain? 😳 #neuroscientist #factcheck

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Is social media…. bad for you? 🤔 #science #stopscrolling #mentalhealth

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Maybe I’m just a neuroscientist, but empathy is one of the COOLEST topics out there

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A message to my younger self, and to all the young people out there who doubt yourself and your a...

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Are you a better driver than this goldfish? #science #fish #tank

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Want to attend the world’s biggest neuroscience conference with me?

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Why is witnessing others’ pain uncomfortable? Because to some level, your brain is “experiencing”...

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Do TikTok debunks make a difference?? #science #STEM #misinformation

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What happens in the brain during orgasm? These scientists dared to find out 🫣 #science #opioids ...

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One of the few studies exploring how, exactly, placebos work. Incredible! (Rutgen et al., PNAS, 2...

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This recent paper (Scheggia et al., Nat Neuro) sheds light on the #brain circuits that control ge...

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Stimulating your brain with random noise could be therapeutic: heres why (and how) #neuroscience ...

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New research shows that distressed plants emit sounds… but are they communicating?? #plants #scie...

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This paper had me like 🤯

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If you need another reason to exercise, this mindblowing study should do the trick 🏃‍♂️💨🤯

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Why do neuroscientists use mice in research?

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I’m honored to share this amazing video produced by Stanford Medicine. It goes behind the scenes ...

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Can animals really act selflessly?

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Can animals really act selflessly?

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What is “neurofeedback?” #neuroscience #history #science #neurofeedback

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When we see others in pain, the brain walks a thin line between empathy and pleasure… depending o...