How a synapse works

Learn how a synapse works in the brain.

From our free online course, “Fundamentals of Neuroscience”.


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[alex_]

This animation is unbelievably perfect. Bravo!

[storz]

I'm just here to echo everyone else's comments and say what a fantastic video! I'm neurodivergent and I was struggling a bit with some of the complex subjects that I'm studying- including the function of synapses. I must say that this video has really helped me, it explains it clearly and with fantastic imagery. Which is exactly what my own brain needed to understand this subject! I just wanted to say thank you to the creators of this video, fantastic work and I'm extremely grateful for it!

[piano]

This educational video on neurology makes it easy to learn! Thank you for all the work put in behind the scenes.

[sirishaj]

I really never put an effort to type a comment but this time I need to say this !! This is amazingly useful to me...it made me understand the topic...I've been watching so many educational videos on youtube but I never really felt YouTube can make our studies so cool and intresting just like a fairy tail

[letsclaire-ify]

Such a straight forward way to demonstrate how the brain works to the lay person. Well done, more please.

[svani]

why’s this video so comforting n calming

[FooeyMcgooey]

This is not the LoL content I was looking for, but I did learn something today.

[rzhang]

Appreciated for those who works so hard on generating this wonderful animation ☁️

[mohammadrezaian]

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[jointheconversation]

Thanks for the well-integrated and best-described lecture about synapse.

[ryanfrizzell]

Thank’s HarvardX, it’s usually interesting to learn more about how synapses and neuronal functioning operates and this video satisfies that.

[A_few_words]

Brilliant video. Well explained and beautifully animated. I feel like I learned something. Thank you.

[picoserg]

The best animated video of synapse I have ever seen. Phenomenally done, big props.

[BeautiFAHT]

This video just gave me so much clarity regarding the nmj and transmission of signals as a whole. Thank you so much. Helps me with the function of a contraction as well as the functions of nervous system.

[Sment]

Wonderful, beautiful, magnificent! I remember how much time I spent to understand physiology of excitable cells and how difficult this time was. The main obstacle was the way I was learnig - very thick handbooks, lot of pages, lot of text, little pictures and complicated terminology. Now I can watch so great videos like this and it's hard to believe how clear and logic cellular physiology is. My respect for people who make hard things more easy and clear.

[pchipp]

So much easier to understand with these incredible visuals! :)

[m.bianca]

This is the most beautiful and informational vid about Synapse I'm glad that I watched it.

[emirosmanovic]

The world's best video about neuroscience

[waseemzahoor]

This method of teaching is just perfect

[vishwajeetmaske]

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Great job dude❣️