How do brain scans work? - John Borghi and Elizabeth Waters

Check out our Patreon page: View full lesson: As far as we know, there’s only one thing in our solar system sophisticated enough to study itself: the human brain. But this self-investigation is challenging because a living brain is shielded by skull, swaddled in tissue, and made up of billions of tiny cells. How do we study living brains without harming their owners? Elizabeth Waters and John Brorghi explain how EEGs, fMRIs, and PETs work. Lesson by Elizabeth Waters and John Borghi, animation by Joash Berkeley. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Mayra Urbano, Kostadin Mandulov, Alex Schenkman, Sdiep Sriram, Ivan Todorović, Antero Semi, Yanuar Ashari, Mrinalini , Anthony Kudolo, Querida Owens, Hazel Lam, Manav parmar, Dwight Tevuk, Stephen A. Wilson, Siamak H, Dominik Kugelmann, Katie Winche