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Yeah 😄

No, she's just Amy. Actress is really really really good at acting. She went deep into the character...

p Hs she really has a PhD in neuroscience.

@@phs125 lmao what? She has a degree in neuroscience, she's not playing amy ffs

@@joshuaeitan3746 no, This is Patrick

@Long Wang She's not actually. Her kids are vaccinated. It's not as clear cut as all-in or full-anti. She's more in the "research each vaccine, why it's given and when, then decide based on the research", which makes sense to me, a hardcore pro-vaxxer. Some vaccines absolutely should be mandatory for everyone at a specific age or time (or health crisis), I can also see an argument for deciding as you go that based on certain evidence, or current events, it may be good to have it now or wait for specific circumstances that justify it, which may never come around. OTOH, Mayim has the scientific knowledge and literacy to stand a chance at doing it right (which doesn't mean she'll always get it right, she's a specialist of a specific branch of science which is NOT immunology). Most people don't have that.

@Long Wang She said on both FB and Twitter that she's not an anti-vaxxer and her kids are vaccinated. Sooo ...

@Long Wang omg! So true, you're such an informed individual, Long Wang!

@Long Wang Western medicine is a strange business full of racist spirometers, painkillers based on petroleum that ruin your liver and give you alzheimers and bad diet advice if you actually do the research- however, vaccines really aren’t “any” of those things an anti-vaxxer says they are, period. They are the best scientifically engineered means to immunize a population against a contagious agent- and you should definitely get one if your government or institution suggests you do. I’ve healed broken bones, botched laparoscopic surgeries and ciprofloxacin poisoning by pure metaphysical practice in myself - and had instances where I prayed for hospital patients and they spontaneously recovered. I believe you can also NOT need a vaccination. However, I still get them - and think they will make me healthy instead of ill - because I didn’t get ill as a bunch of people in my army platoon got pneumonia after getting a flu shot - solely on “reading psalms and thanking God for health.”

@Long Wang for regular people, yes, but shes a scientist, very different things

Hello Dr Bialik , A question how is memory stored in molecular level and where is “sixth sense” in our body

Hi! I love and admire you! Just thought you should know. You are super magical♥️

You are so cute

Get help love you’re not well

You should start a podcast!!! I would listen to you all the time

Writers often create a character based on a person's real personality. I remember watching a video (or show on TV) on the cast of FRIENDS and how their real personality is included in the character. Also, the fact she is a neuroscientist really moved her to the head if the list for the casting directors. It's extremely helpful that she understood the basis of Big Bang. She maybe was able to correct the writers, too.

Actually more. Her character has low social intelligence but clearly Mayim is the oppositive. Highly self aware.

lol "character" she is not an actor bud. Simply a personality. One that millions of people enjoy. Until she finds another role with zero acting required, her entertainment career is where it is.

You might want to look into her beliefes some more.

@@RandomPickles I don't have to share her beliefs to believe she is highly intelligent. Being highly intelligent doesn't mean everything she believes is good. But they are her beliefs, not mine. I don't have to like them. That's why it's called freedom of speech.

Actually, it was to get healthcare, but I agree, teachers should be compensated more.

Marisol Chable It doesn’t have to come to that though. Teachers deserve to make a living no matter what the school is

Imagine having acting be your fallback plan😂 "Welp, education isn't paying the bills... better go get famous, real quick!"

@@lulunu9139 that still means the system doesn't support them economically lol

She was already famous.

I’ve always thought of it like circumstantial evidence

That’s an expression or a phrase, not a term. Pedantry is underrated.

So eating ice cream doesn't cause shark attacks?

The thing about adhd is probably that distraction might reduce their success and health chances

Toby Blunstone *me doesn’t even know those 2 words*

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Truly

No it isnt, that is not at all an indicator of a genius

@@SierNotsruhtsure bud

​@SierNotsruht it actually is, someone who is intelligent on a high level on a subject can explain and teach it in simplified terms

yoooooooooooo

YES PLEASE

True.

Definitely!

💯💯💯

Yes!

So true!

Sleep disorders are a group of disorders concerning sleep. Insomnia is one of them.

Laniakea -000- oh i know! I’ve struggling with insomnia a lot myself as well- it’s a broad spectrum when I comes to sleep disorders. I just meant that all her tips were for sleep disorders were falling asleep as opposed to staying awake even though the commenter had not specified that they have insomnia symptoms. Most conversations around sleep disorders tend to focus on insomnia and falling asleep vs staying awake

obstructive sleep apnea is extremely common and often results in difficulyt going to sleep and difficulty waking up and staying awake.

@@rickwrites2612 yep! I have that too thanks to a deformity in my nose. I was thinking about how the video is very catered to insomnia

I think that is more common in anyone highly educated. Not to say everyone highly educated pics their words carefully, but having a larger vocabulary helps. The idea is that in order to effectively communicate, it is important to use words that are a specific as possible in order to ensure there is little chance of misunderstanding the message. But yes... Mayim does a great job of picking her words carefully.

garfreeek I was going to say the same. She sounds like a teacher.

@@mako9673 It's hard to say in English, but I think the best way of saying it: She doesn't judge here, she doesn't condemn anyone. She's open for the fact that knowledge changes etc. That's something I don't see very often!

Most PhDs spent at least a little bit of time teaching

She homeschooled her kids, so she sort of was one

She has her own channel! Your dreams have come true lol

She also wrote two books and read the audiobook version too, definitley recomend them!

I could listen to Mayim talk about neuroscience or literally anything for hours on end 🥺😍

There’s another one up!!

@@lyssbeth I think they were done together. It appears she is wearing the same clothes in both

Hopefully not.

@@AhsokaTanoTheWhite why not ? She seems great

I was about to comment the same. Can't agree more. I would like a professor like Mayim.

Neuro guru

Mayim Bialik the Neuro chick

No, Terence Tao is much better and smarter

Mediumtittygoth was the only one that shook her a bit. 😂

Honestly, having a certain amount of knowledge in a subject, doesn't make you a genius. Genius goes beyond knowledge. I admit she appears to be a very smart woman, but she did study this subject for years on end. A genius is defined by having an exceptional high level of intelligence and creative thinking. It's not something you can learn.

She is really smart and scientifically literate, but she is just very knowledgeable on this subject because she spent many years studying it. it doesn't make someone a genius just because they are highly educated

I agree with the above comments. Additionally, the smartest person you know might not be a genius as well. There's a certain level of IQ that you need to have to be certified as genius and it's very rare. You might never meet a genius in your entire life.

@@feliciaroyers1646 The same is applied to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerburg, and other rich or successful people. My Macroeconomics professor told us stories about meeting them at these conferences last year. They're not genius level at all. I was stunned for a few days yall.

Ariel Schoonover *agrees in Autism*

Hey, don't come for me like this, lol. (Also ADHD. Also laughing at that)

*Laughs in severe anxiety*

*sneezes in ADHD and Tourette’s*

coughs in adhd, autism, anxiety and depression.

I'm not a neuroscientist but here's what I think: Humans, like every animal, when we feel tension or pressure we might enter in a paranoia-like state, and the body thinks that you have to be ready to fight or run.

Neurotransmitter imbalances.

Read Dr. John Sarno's "The Mindbody Prescription" :)

Pretty sure serotonin helps control sleep and many disorders cause a disruption in serotonin

Hey fellow insomniac🥳

I didn't even noticed that. I had to replay hahah

It's a common technique used in editing to hide cuts, but you're right, it's overused in this video and is very annoying.

First I thought that only happens when twitter is blended in/out, but it also happens randomly, and it's slightly uncomfortable being aware of it ._.

RU-vid normalized this kind of annoying cut, since people make a lot of talking head videos with one camera. My inner film editor cringes every time, but I've learned to deal.

I thought it was just me being bothered by this. It's like getting slapped in the face.

I had the same experience. I did a series of ECT in 2016, and I haven't had a severe depressive episode since. I think it's important to note that they do it under sedation now, also. I had a headache when I woke up every time, but you don't feel the actual procedure.

Yeah, this is very important. I looked into all sorts of treatment for my depression, and if needed I'd do the shocks. Currently I'm on medication that is effective for me. But after a decade of depression after depression after depression - I was willing to do pretty much anything. People still have that image of unsedated ECT and that's been different for a very long time.

she has a youtube channel where she talks about things like this sometimes too! :)

@@jennifertan Thx, i'll check it out!

As an epileptic, I can relate. I can't go for car rides at night because the flashing emergency vehicle lights against the darkness will trigger a seizure every single time I see them.

Ditto. I've got controlled nocturnal epilepsy, so I can still drive. But those really bright contrasting lights at night are not at all comfortable.

Let's be honest. It's its a good enough copy, that has the same memories.... Why worry about it :P I'm sure the other dimensional aliens are perfectly nice!! Alternatively: how do YOU know your not a copy :O

See if she has a belly button. If she does then she is the original, if she doesn't then it is the clone

The question on capgras syndrome reminded me of a Criminal Minds episode that had an unsub with this disorder

@@garfreeek Actually, the fear that they are copy's as well is present, in a small percentage. As is that their reflection is a copy. (Edited because I have terrible punctuation)

Dr Oliver Sacks has a lot of interesting information on this syndrome, as does Dr ramachandran. I highly recommend both of them for thorough discussions of the topic (and a vast array of other neuroscience topics). If I remember correctly, they noted that it may be caused by a stroke or brain injury that damages the way they incorporate memories/recognition of people and the correlating emotions. For example, when they see their mother, they expect to feel warmth and love. When the appropriate emotional impulses aren’t linked with the appearance of their mother, they feel as though something is off - that it can’t be their mother because they aren’t feeling the appropriate things they expect to feel upon seeing their mother. They don’t know that’s what’s happening - that their visual cortex isn’t linking up with their emotions properly - they just feel that something is wrong and assume it’s because that isn’t really their mother. They won’t have the same reaction to, say, the mailman, though, because there’s no expectation that they should feel love or tenderness for that person, whereas the lack of those emotions when seeing their mother feels jarring and frightening. Especially interesting is that if their mother calls them on the phone (while out of sight), they will usually feel as though they’re speaking to their actual mother and not an imposter because the disconnect is between the VISUAL cortex and their emotional centers (limbic system? For the life of me I can’t remember right now), so hearing her voice while she isn’t in view does not trigger the same feelings of their mother being an imposter as seeing her in person evokes.

Similarly I've heard talk about the role that vitamin d plays in its development on a background of genetic predisposition. I believe that Scotland has the highest incidence rate of any country, and this is due the combination of genetic factors and the lack of sufficient sunlight for many months of the year.

It is first and foremost an autoimmune disease, but if someone in your direct family has it, you have an increased risk of developing Demyelinization (MS), but I would NEVER call it a genetic disease (even with the small risk) because there's a lot more of "nurture" than "nature" involved in its development. Basically, because of "something" or an "event" we don't know of, your blood-brain barrier becomes permeable and lets "unknown particles" inside the brain, which then triggers this sustained inflammatory response of your own immunity attacking motor neurons... What we DO know now is that "events" such as a blow to the head, a car crash, or having even really high fever, may put you at risk, which increases if someone in your immediate family has MS.

being an autoimmune disease or a genetic disease is not mutually exclusive

The Twitter questions are crazy good too. She definitely thrived.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎉🎂🎈

@@ella17734 thank you! 🤗

it's never too late! last year in high school i had an admin teacher who's 56, she's currently going for her 2nd year of neuroscience in uni, she also thought it would be too late especially since she has kids and works for multiple schools, but she took the challenge and went for it. you sure can do it! anyone can! stay safe