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Reels

22 short films, each built from real scans. They are silent here; the versions with music are on Instagram.

Deep nuclei

Basal ganglia, thalamus, amygdala and the loops that start and stop movement.

How your brain says GO: the direct pathway

0:34Basal ganglia, part 1
How your brain says STOP: the indirect pathway

0:36Basal ganglia, part 2
The emergency brake: the hyperdirect pathway

0:38Basal ganglia, part 3
What's a seahorse doing in your brain?

0:32Brain museum, exhibit 1
Name 5 deep brain structures

0:39Name it, quiz 1
Where Parkinson's begins

0:33
How small is the deep brain stimulation target?

0:37

Pathways

White-matter cables: movement, vision, memory and the bridge between the hemispheres.

Why a stroke weakens the opposite side

0:27
Vision takes a detour: Meyer's loop

0:32
200 million fibres: the corpus callosum

0:31
The Papez circuit in 3D

0:33

Arteries

The circle of Willis, arterial territories and what a stroke takes away.

Which artery feeds each region?

0:41Name it, quiz 2
The circle of Willis: textbook vs a real brain

0:33Textbook vs real, part 2
The circle of Willis, the brain's ring road

0:29
Middle cerebral artery stroke: face, arm and speech

0:33

Ventricles

The fluid-filled chambers inside the brain and the fluid that flows through them.

Leonardo da Vinci's wax cast of the ventricles

0:25Brain museum, exhibit 2
Name the 5 fluid spaces

0:39Name it, quiz 3
Swimming through the ventricles

0:43

Cortex

Lobes, folds and the language areas.

The four lobes: textbook vs a real cortex

0:32Textbook vs real, part 1
Two language areas and the cable between them

0:34

Reading the MRI

Real 7 Tesla scans, slice by slice, and what each shade of grey means.

What's hiding in a brain MRI

0:337 T MRI, part 1
A 7 Tesla brain MRI, slice by slice

0:297 T MRI, part 2