Additional videos about the brain and imaging

Would you like to know more about how this fascinating organ works? Then take a look at one of these videos produced by the Wellcome Trust, the charity that publishes ‘Big Picture’.

Understanding the brain

• In ‘Laughing in the face of reality’, scientist Dr Tali Sharot tells us how a happier disposition may be key to our evolutionary success.
• Explore magnetic resonance imaging in ‘How MRI works’.
• In ‘Ray Dolan on brain scanning’, the Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging gives an introduction to imaging.
• In ‘Understanding the brain: an introduction’, find out about the Wellcome Trust’s work to understand the brain.

Diseases and conditions

• Meet ‘Twink’, a former band photographer, who has experienced the extremes of bipolar disorder for over 20 years in ‘Bipolar blues’.
• ‘Talking heads’ looks at Tess and Michael, who have both had strokes that affect language.
• ‘Understanding Parkinson’s disease’ features three scientists talking about their research.
• Professor Chris Shaw explores research into motor neurone disease in ‘The role of RNA-processing proteins in neurodegeneration’.  
• Professor Peter St George-Hyslop describes research aiming to understand Alzheimer’s disease in ‘Mechanisms of neurotoxicity of amyloid aggregates’.

This is part of the online content for ‘Big Picture: Inside the Brain’.

Image: Oligodendrocyte precursor cells. Credit: Nina Callard, Wellcome Images.