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  • did you know that every time you're watching a new video, it's possible, thanks to the world's most powerful super computer?

  • And I'm not talking about your laptop or phone here, I mean your own brain.

  • Let's take a journey in there to find out how it works.

  • But first I'll need a proper kind of equipment.

  • This machine here will.

  • Hey, what?

  • Oh my.

  • Looks like I've turned myself into a sound wave.

  • Well, whatever works.

  • And that's my friend down there, so we'll get to see what happens in his brain.

  • Interesting.

  • The outer ear catches the sound wave and the journey begins.

  • It's pretty tight in here in the ear canal.

  • Let me squeeze in.

  • There we go.

  • Next stop the ear drum.

  • It's about half the size of a dime.

  • What was that thing?

  • Air drum starts vibrated.

  • I know that feeling so well.

  • It's like when your neighbors party so hard you can hear it at the other end of the street, moving on to the middle ear.

  • Things were getting too loud here, and this must be the cock Leah.

  • That's Greek for snail, by the way, because duh, that's what it looks like It's pretty wet in here.

  • It's all filled with liquid, and it's getting storming.

  • What are all those cute hairs?

  • There are so many of them.

  • Oh, I feel ticklish.

  • Book.

  • They move and bend, and then the real magic happens.

  • Vibrations turn into nerve impulses Here things are getting crazy fast.

  • Here.

  • We're traveling down the auditory nerve.

  • Next up the brain.

  • I think I need to put my shades on its bright and sparkly.

  • In here, all those trees look like they've come straight out of a sci fi movie.

  • What if I touch it?

  • So it's like a lightning.

  • Now these air, my fellow new Ron's.

  • There are about 100 billion of them, about as many as the stars in the Milky Way.

  • You get most of them at birth, but as you get older, your brain keeps producing new ones.

  • Wow, that was bright and again, neuron sent somewhere between 5 50 messages every second.

  • More on that later, we have places to go.

  • There are hundreds of neuron types and three main classes.

  • Sensory neurons air like little Secret Service agents.

  • They collect information from your sense organs like eyes and ears, and deliver it to your central nervous system.

  • These here are motor neurons there, the big bosses in your body.

  • They get information from other neurons and deliver it to your muscles, organs and glands.

  • So basically they're telling you what to dio.

  • All the rest are inter neurons.

  • They collect and receive information from other neurons.

  • This action is never ending.

  • It's like a huge chemical factory.

  • Neurons work so hard they produce enough energy toe let up a low voltage led Bo.

  • Just try it.

  • Yeah, they did it.

  • The speeds in here are crazy up to 250 miles per hour, like sports cars.

  • But let's slow down for a moment.

  • I want to know what happens here.

  • Welcome to the cerebral.

  • The largest part of the brain, or around 85%.

  • So glad I never skipped anatomy class.

  • The outer layer of the cerebral is made of gray matter.

  • The rest of the core is made of white matter.

  • Does it matter?

  • Yes, it does.

  • The cerebral interprets your senses of vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch.

  • You can feel different emotions and learn new things thanks to it.

  • Did you know your brain has unlimited storage capacity.

  • So that's what all these folds and grooves here are.

  • Four.

  • Okay, enough with the cerebral.

  • The next highlight on the itinerary today is the cerebellum, also known as the little brain.

  • It's indeed waist smaller than the cerebral, but not any less important.

  • Of course.

  • Careful that was one rough turn.

  • Your little brain receives info from the sensory systems and the spinal cord and is in charge of the motor movements.

  • So thanks to it, you can walk without falling, have good posture and even speak.

  • It also helps you concentrate and keep emotions under control.

  • That differs person to person.

  • Of course.

  • Are you mostly calm, or is it easy to freak you out?

  • Let me know in the comments section below.

  • We still have places to go, so let's keep moving.

  • Neurons here common all shapes and sizes, but all have three basic parts.

  • There is the cell body, the long tail called Exxon and Dendrite that looks like tree branches.

  • If you zoom in on it, Iran's receive most of their information.

  • Thanks to the dendrite, it's let's hang on here and watch.

  • That's quite a show.

  • Information transmission in progress, just one neuron can't do much by itself.

  • So they work together as teams.

  • They talk in their secret language of electrical and chemical signals.

  • Who did you see that little light?

  • Just go out?

  • Not all messages can go through neuron sort of learned the relevant from the irrelevant.

  • And when you do something again and again so the same signal is going through.

  • The message gets even faster and is more likely to reach the goal.

  • When more thing that makes some parts of your brain more active is love.

  • It lights up in M R.

  • I scan.

  • Hold on, I think because of all those love talks, we missed our next stop.

  • Let's go back a bit.

  • No, not what we were looking for.

  • So easy to get lost in this maze.

  • Maybe it's here.

  • We're looking for something really small and almond shaped.

  • Yea, Meet the Magdala, everyone.

  • It's on our must see list today because it plays a super important role.

  • It handles your emotions like fear and sadness, and helps you keep your temper under control.

  • And it's like a scrap of for your memories of events and emotions.

  • It stores them so you can recognise similar things in the future.

  • All right, what's next?

  • Oh, that must be the brains down.

  • It's in charge of communication between the brain and the rest of your body.

  • And you should also thank it for the things you do automatically.

  • Breathing.

  • Keeping your heartbeat regular, digesting food and other basics.

  • Brain stem is connected directly to the spinal cord.

  • That's the central highway of your nervous system.

  • What's that?

  • Traffic police.

  • I I wasn't speeding, Officer.

  • I promise.

  • Everyone is crazy fast in here.

  • This highway has lanes moving in both directions, carrying messages to and from the brain.

  • Hey, Steve, what do you doing?

  • Don't you see that door right in your face?

  • Do something, Brain.

  • You have to send a signal to his muscles.

  • Okay.

  • I have to save him to the rescue.

  • Who made it?

  • I'm human again.

  • And that phone is still ringing.

  • How long have I been away for?

  • Just so you know, it looks like this all happened in 1000 of a second.

  • Wow.

did you know that every time you're watching a new video, it's possible, thanks to the world's most powerful super computer?

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