Where do love ballads and beautiful poetry come from? What about the fear of heights and spiders? It’s all in the brain! In this lesson, explore the wonders of emotions and the brain with your students.

This video explains the complicated neural systems that allow us to perform simple movements like wiggling our toes.

Learn the basics of how neurons fire, and explore what we can learn from the feeling of banging our funny bone.

Your eyes can play tricks on you, and visual illusions take advantage of these glitches in our perception.

We are able to empathize thanks in large part to mirror neurons, a special type of motor neurons that help us recognize emotions.

Originally performed to relieve the symptoms of epilepsy, split-brain experiments in the 1960s revealed that the left and right sides of the brain were good at different tasks.

Animals have evolved visual systems that are uniquely suited to their survival needs. See how human vision stacks up to the visual systems of other animals.

Migraines are more than ordinary headaches, but neuroscientists are still investigating how and why they happen.

Concussions don't always show up on brain scans. But, whether or not we can see it, the damage is there.

Located deep within the brain, the limbic system contains brain structures crucial for memory, emotion, and basic body functions.