The Mind/Brain: Crash Course History of Science #30

Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. But exactly what kind of stuff is the human brain? That one was—and is—tricky.

The brain sciences—with experiments and therapies tied to biological theories of the body—emerged in the nineteenth century and came into their own in the early twentieth.

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[werewolf]

The irony of the brain learning about how to understand itself and all its inner mechanics.

[Beryllahawk]

The face Hank made when he said "women with independent ideas"...

I can't even come up with a term superlative enough to say it. I'll say "it was great" - but that word is, well, the tip of the iceberg in terms of HOW great.

[jeanvizueta]

Awesome video, but as a psychology student I'm a little dissapointed that people think that the history of psychology ends with Psychoanalysis. There are many other schools that I would love to see on CrashCourse like the already mentioned Behaviorism, and also Humanism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and Historical - Cultural

[NGBigfield]

" He couldn't take an MD in Germany, because he was too Jewish "
It's soooo sad but the way you say it just emphasize how weird it is to say it today.

[BerndKrannich]

That picture of Carl Young at 11:15: It really looks like someone took a photo of John Green and photoshoped it just a bit...

[TheErudite]

Damn.. This ended way too soon! It was just getting good. I think he really should have explained how and why Freudian ideas were flawed. Because most people don't really see the problem in them and often push the same assumptions.

Shoot, I study the brain and mind as a hobby and even I wasnt too sure how Freud was wrong in the grand scheme of things until I looked deeper.

[cartoonmania]

So happy to see hank after crash course chemistry ended

[parag_Parag]

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[gordanorangutan]

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[kimberlymartinez]

This might be the most interesting video thus far! I have always been so fascinated by the mind/ brain and psychological disorders.

[klintianquilonalalim]

When I was a child, I always thought that the mental hospital is indeed a home for mentally challenged, the crazy one but as I grew up Ive understood that it is the place for people who seeks to strengthen and straighten the things in their lives with the help of the psychiatrist.

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Will there be another CC astronomy?
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Thank you for inspiring generations to come!

[hsavietto]

1:27 just as a curiosity, in Brazil "pinel" is an old slang for "crazy".

[ainiebaldecasa]

People have always had theories of the mind and pscychological disorder or madness. The video talks about the different famous doctors who studied about the mind or the brain. Aside from that, it also emphasized on functionalism that is a philosophy that tries to understand things by working out the purpose of them. Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior while psychiatrist are the one who studied it.
However, the brain is the most important part of our body and it needs to take good care. Thanks to the contributors of this video.

[damonaxel]

The Mind, the main discussion about psychology. As a human, and person who have a brain should know how it works. Knowing basic stuff could actually help you in many ways. Before, studies about the human mind is limited and largly unknown. Thanks for people such as Sigmund Freud and etc. for their wonderful incredible theories about how brain works, we've come up rational reasoning about how a particular human brain behave differently. Just like for example, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of soldiers.. People might mistakenly call insomnia into disease or hysteria/Dyslexia into a contagious infection etc.. Thankfully, science try and always will answer every possible questions about how things work and how it behave in a ways we hardly know.

[janeen]

Every ideas in this world came from our minds. In order to contribute good ideas that may help the world to be better, we should first understand how our mind works, how do we interact and understand human behavior. When talking about the well-being of a person it always includes his state of sanity. It was so great that there are people who shares their idea about this, and because of it we now know how to interact with people who has this kind of mental disorder.

[wafah]

Psychology is an interesting topic for me because we are studying or talking about the brain, the master of our body. Our mind is the one that differentiate us from other organism. It is really fascinating how our mind works.

[seanspicer]

its time to look at some upsettings stuff.
- pauses videos, do i wanna watch this... - hahaha