Brain Myths 

My brain feels like a mint

just a quick FYI: Better help is a pretty bad company. They pay their therapists a lot less than they would get from regular sessions and they've also had a shady rep in the past

very interesting painting you have in the background gingerpale

Fun fact about betterhelp mrwhostheboss made a video about them talking that they actually do sell their patients information to 3rd party companies

Your brain isn’t piloting your meat suit. You are the brain. You’re a little lump of flesh piloting a bone mech with meat armor.

Ginger my friend. My partner is a clinical mental health therapist. I am a strong advocate for therapy. Better health unfortunately harvests user data and sells it to bidders which is so extremly unethical. Just fyi.

I learned a thing. Thanks Gingey

“Todays sooner is better help” *sigh* I wish it wasn’t

I swear, he's just daring teachers to show this in class.

I hate it when I trip and end up playing some indoor soccer

“I legally must inform you that better help can not help you teleport” had me cracking up

Fun fact: The 10% myth basically comes from a game of telephone. A neurologist or something said as of that time (2000 I think?) we only understand how around 10% of our brains work. That got picked up by news companies who way oversimplified what they said, and that was misinterpreted as the 10% myth.

5:57 is misinformation, koalas actively avoid eating eucalyptus of the tree due to fallen leaves usually having less nutrition.

Other brain myths (The DLC): - Brain is made by neurons : Partly true, but theres also a whole lot of other types of cells including ones dedicated to immune response and other that just... exist to hold neuros together (Ok they do more things but is funny to think this way) - Neurons dont replicate : The term "Neuron" englobes a whole lot of types of brain cells, and some yes, even duplicate - The brain is closed off from the rest of the body, like a chamber of sorts : You would be horrified to know that theres a connection between your cranium and your spinal column, where cerebrospinal fluid flows at night to your brain to wash it from all the byproducts of brain function (So you could technically call a sleep deprived person a dirty brain) Also, not related directly to the brain but hearts do not have their own nervous sistem, they have an autonomous sistem made of specilialized muscular cells that just jolt on their own, we even have 3 nodes where the pulse generates that can work for the others in case one fails (Thats arrythmia folks) Also also, another fun fact, cells come from the same fetal layer (the 3 layers that form 8-9 days after fecundation) as the cells from your skin, freaky.

4:49 bro flipped us off in the most innocent way possible

6:08 NOO GINGERPALE YOU’RE GONNA GET KURU

This makes the insult "smooth brain" even better. It's scientifically accurate as well as insulting

"Today we'll be looking at some common breathmints!" Honestly thats sounds fun too

4:29 NOOO YOU KILLED MY BRETHREN

"Yeah, therapy is pretty great. Which is why I'm going to get sponsored by a scam service that only serves to make an already distrusted and underused field of health look even more like a sham!"

I feel like, the reason we simplify the senses down to the 5, is because all those other ones are just ADVANCED touch

“Boy it’s a bad day to be an empath.” Is such an under appreciated line

As someone who studied neuroscience in college, it is good to hear someone explain away these myths in a way that is easy for anyone to understand. It gets annoying to listen to people repeat the same lines rooted in decades old, misinterpreted or misinformed, pop science. The left/right brain one and the 10% of your brain myths annoy me the most because they are entirely nonsensical when put under any scrutiny, yet people still keep repeating them to this day.

BetterHelp? Come'on GingerPale.

his videos are always so pleasing to watch, from the colours to the animation and fun visuals

Ain't no way people STILL get sponsored by betterhelp

Its a good thing our hearts don't stop beating when we notice it like blinking and breathing does

omg new gingerpale video :( im so happy. i recently just had surgery for a cyst removal in my ovary am cut up really badly around my stomach. i cant sleep long because everything hurts so ive been trying to find ways to distract myself. this video really just made my day. thank you

You are the reason I got into animation. Thank you for continuing to share random silly videos with the world :)

The fact I’m more interested in these videos than actual school says something

GingerPale, that painting in the background is really piquing my curiosity!

I didn't learn anything, well besides the koala having extra thumbs, but it's nice to see these common myths set straight. I still know way too many people that believe that stupid "you only use 10% of your brain" myth

GingerPale is so educational and funny at the same time. I love it :).

3:42 I would like to keep my excuse for no creativity

The thing about the koalas not recognizing food if the leaves fall off, the tree is actually not true. If koalas eat leaves that aren't at their peak nutrition, they can starve to death. So they've learned to avoid eating discolored leaves or leaves that have fallen off the vine, even if it's only by a few seconds

Remember, kids, in an actual Trolley Problem situation the 5 people are most likely to die…because people tend to freeze meaning they can not flip the switch leading to the train having slightly redder wheels than it would have.

thank you for this scrumptious brain video it was delicious

6:45 this part is what i think of that ad there. Great video and get that bread.

6:54 german flag in the window in the background 🇩🇪 👌

I can't believe the only thing I learned in this video was that koalas have two sets of thumbs

4:21 Woooooohhh

6:34 thanks... im now manually pumping my blood..

I get so excited when I see the notification that you posted a new video. You put so much time and effort into your videos (if anyone has tried to animate you'll know how time consuming it is). I'll always love your videos

Boppity bibbity, your breathing is now a concious activity.

0:37 my brain met my brain yesterday now they're friends

With the left-brain-right-brain stuff; to be fair, there have been studies into patients who've had their corpus callosum (fancy term oooh) which is the bundle of nerves connecting the brain hemispheres severed (it used to be an epilepsy treatment) that did show that the left and right brain are slightly specialised for different functions - it was shown in a study by Roger Sperry that the right hemisphere is pretty much mute, but it has access to the left side of the body so you're able to access the information it's stored by drawing. That conclusion was drawn from one task in the experiment where an image or word would be shown to either the left or right eye and the participant would be asked to say what they'd seen and then draw it. The results showed that if the left eye (right brain) was shown something, the participant wouldn't be able to say what they'd seen; but if they tried to draw it with their left hand they would be able to do so. If the right eye (left brain) was shown something, they would be able to say it and I don't remember whether they could draw it (I learned all this in GCSE psychology like 2 years ago lmao but you can look it up anyway) So yeah there is evidence for lateralisation, but like GingerPale said the left/right brain dominance thing isn't very likely. The hemispheres do different things but you use them both equally.

Why am I learning so many interesting things from this funny little cartoon?

4:57 Got cha nose.

2:39 , you could just move one person into the group of and save all six of them.

I just finished the brain unit in my anatomy class! This was so fun to watch. I LOVE YOUR UPLOADS

Your animation is so cute and funny- I just wanna hug your character!

"This is my outside skull..." that kid is speaking straight facts.

Gingerpale, I'm begging you to look into the controversaies behind your sponsors before accepting them! betterhelp uses fake therapists and sells your data instead of actually keeping your information private like a good therapist should.

🙋🏽‍♂️team right brain

Bro your videos always teach me things I’d never be able to understand. You explain it all so well!

Another GingerPale video Cures a bit of my mental health and depression from depersonalization/derealization disorder

3:06 Ork moment lmao

5:12 cetaceans still pretty smart tho

Your animation is so flowy and appealing 😭 the colors are so nice and juicy

I came into this video expecting nothing and found out something! You gave me the word equilibrioception, and I am overjoyed! Thank you!

There’s just a devils 3 way pic at 0:25 lmao

Average Metroid Map: 6:26

“I put flames on it, I made it ✨pretty✨” - lil creative guy

I love how you spend most of your time animating beautiful backgrounds with interesting details so I can make eye contact with a drawing

2:19 was a nice reference to bo burnham

3:31 I like to think (if it wasn’t confirmed yet) that while we do you all parts of our brain, we might use the right or left side more dominantly than the other.

"its like a hard drive you don't want to drop any of them on the floor" got me so hard

This is the first video I’ve watched of you. I subbed before the ad roll. This shit had me laugh the whole time.

4:03 Wheres the ear?

2:29 im creative and Emotional, but not good with people, i think i have a smoth brain

Mr Pale I love your artstyle it just makes me happy

I love gingerpale art style and the colours he uses are chefs kiss :D

It's really disappointing that you use Better Help as a sponsor.

What a smart purple person... Thing

Can we appreciate the painting in gingerpales room now that’s what I call modern art

your artstyle is so gutetama it makes my brain tickle I love it so goofy

The misconception that we only use 10% of our brain was actually a misunderstood quote from a neurologist back in like 19 something. But what he actually said was we only know what 10% of our brain does.

A very interesting picture at 1:45

Extremely funny, educational and beutiful art!!! As someone who is learning how to animate and how hard it is, you are amazing❤️ keep going🤩🤩

Hearing that Betterhelp ad gave me whiplash, can’t believe that dookie company got to Gingerpale too

0:04 odd letters... stray alphabet? ?2N??A1 2?A? ? = unknown symbol. clearly not the stray alphabet interpreting the letters by what theyre probably supposed to say it - blue and red sign is probably "open" - seems like: o = : p = |͞ e= |͞ . n = |̄ and the sign says: ?o???e? "coffee!" would be my guess but that implies two (" |͞. " and " |̄°") symbols for "e", not unheard of (see _stray_ alphabet) and im guessing a "!" because gingerpale likes whimsy. "BobaTea" could also be it though that implies two "b" symbols (B and b?) as well as two "a" symbols. this may be a whole language i dont know or just a fancy typeface for english. idk.

6:02 FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. I HAVE SUCH A VENDETTA AGAINST KOALAS. THEY’RE SO STUPID, AND NOT CUTE ENOUGH TO MAKE UP FOR IT

At the beginning, “so, I touched grass today,”

The music and sound effects are scratching my smooth brain. It's very cool to me, as I'm studing psych and the brain rn! (also, great video :) 👍✨)

Does the thumbnail depict Gingerpale eating a brain, or removing it from his head? A question to ponder.

5:25 If you want to know the full details of what contributes to your intelligence, well, uhh, we don't know. Octopuses are famously very intelligent, yet their brains are smooth. Then again, most of their body's brain power are actually in their arms, and their arms operate fairly autonomously. Though some very smart bird also have smooth brains. So no matter what you say, there's bound to be disagreement on what you said. The brain is complicated.

Gotta love his sincerity "You are just a stupid dumb idiot....yeah pretty much" 🤣 I'll take sincerity like this any day of the week than some sweet little lies

YAAASSS ANOTHER UPLOAD FROM MY FAVORITE ANIMATOR ON RU-vid!! How have ya been? Hope it’s all good!

Naw man not BetterHelp :(((

3:56 ✨🎶Eeeveryyonee iiss dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum… DUMB🎵✨ :D

I love your funny characteristics for your videos, and you make it so entertaining. Your inspirational, artistic, and, well, your the dude on the internet who actually. Has. A. Good. Ol’. Functioning. Brain.

It's interesting how he's explaining things in a funny and educational way...and weird and murdery way

6:32 you are now breathing manually

Not betterhelp 💀

*replays you splattering the homunculus over and over* Thank you I needed that god I hate that thing

first time watching one of these videos of yours and I am . . . oddly disturbed yet very glad I learned this stuff. thank you

5:02 why he fart :(

1:24: what bout engineers?

Nice video! Really like the style man

I gently slammed my head against a table today and I could feel my brain shaking around in my skull