Synaptic Cleft

[LittenJack]

Is it possible to get the text to this song? :-) I am norwegian, so I have som problems understanding it all when listening.

[Twinklettuce]

This looks like the Stanford campus..

[utmostrose]

i love this! its helping me study for my summer finals for anatomy and physiology. thanks!

[muesk3]

Thumbs up if you were directed to this video by professor D'Hooge of the KUL!

[Bildungsrebell]

Wow, that's cool! I'll use for my classes. That's the first nerdcore I saw where choreography is (partly) tuned to content. Thank you so much from Germany - hope to visit Stanford soon again: coolest place on the globe :-)

[EEE51993]

Yeeee this help me learn science nigga, WU for life!

[HeartOfLife1]

love it! thank you 4 showing another side to science

[SmileySmillie]

LOL THIS IS A PRO VIDEO

[mymistakewasgold41]

LOL good job!

[xloveforeverx8]

thsi is ccooool

good job :D

[osamusai]

this is amazing. great job! [=

[nao1163]

open open close closeeeee

[terminaldeity]

My neuroscience professor showed this in class today. Needless to say, it was a hit.

[zagabria]

and back again? Synapse is unidirectional.

[tomcfad]

glad to see a close reading. the lyric means "electrical, to chemical, and back into electrical"

however, it could be correctly interpreted to mean bidirectional. google the term "retrograde signaling synapse" - the bidirectionality of some synapses is not in all textbooks, but is becoming an important part of understanding of how nervous systems develop.

[Waranoa]

@zagabria It's absolutely not unidirectional! There's crosstalk; the forward mechanism is very fast, but there's signals going back as well; some transmittters leak and activate receptors on the outside of the presynaptic element, which could indicate to the presynaptic cell that the synaptic cleft is becoming saturated (in the case of tetanic stimulation), and other stuff :P But it's NOT unidirectional; mostly, but not entirely :P

[ShazAsterrr]

yes! awesome

[pazenadam]

This is my favourite video ever! Brilliant!

[kettlecopper]

Cool. (0:

[Rosmondo]

oh my god i love it! hahaha well done!

[iloveSSC09]

yeah Derrick and Nick! AMAZING!!

[mandikp]

Totally lovin' this. I hope neurogangsta catches on.

[jr5star]

Lovely!! I especially appreciate the names of all of the participants.

[ksaladin]

I look forward to showing this to my class when I get to my neuron lectures this fall.

[monster1307]

One of my favorite songs at the moment... Your songs travel quite far, "I'm going back back to plasma membrane" was even shown in our Biology of the Cell-Lecture... And I am living in Germany....:)

[davidmienie]

Fantastic! Thanks! very creative.

[DefiningConcepts]

Exceptionally innovative approach to combining our multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist, see Howard Gardner) in an attempt to understand, apply, analyze, and synthesize (see Bloom Taxonomy) knowledge about how drugs affect normal brain functioning. My only suggestion is next time to try holding frames of key concept scientific diagrams a bit longer on screen. Nitpicking, i know.

[tomcfad]

thanks for the feedback. most of the videos I made this year erred on the side of entertainment and keeping students excited rather then pedagogical value (and were all specifically geared towards our university course). but I'm looking forward to trying to dial up the educational value a little, so thanks for the advice.

[knayak]

Keep it coming!

[ivan24zg]

LOVE IT!

[Andreaseye]

Utterly brilliant, love it! My Dad is a neurobiologist and I just forwarded this link to him.

[SamBM17]

aha so thats what you do at stanford all day lol!

[myroniuk]

being a 1974 humbio grad- I love it! Makes biology so relevant.

[gsamanezlarkin]

This is why I love Stanford. Nerd rap that's actually good!

[dungeonbrownies]

Haha, nice mang.

[stormon4]

very hot.

[chuey282]

JULIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CyberDraco]

Please sir, can I have some more?

Will I be privileged to see these after everyone has graduated?

[SpeciationEverywhere]

BIOLOGY!