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Berial92
February 7, 2023 at 11:06 pm
1:22 is the thumbnail question
i guess
February 8, 2023 at 12:11 am
thank you
naggerssuck
February 7, 2023 at 11:13 pm
Smart people can give some dumb answers to questions he did not get the context of at least three
cooljunkproductions
February 7, 2023 at 11:19 pm
15:00 blood cells constrict? doesn’t he mean blood vessels?
BleachedBonez
February 7, 2023 at 11:27 pm
I never trust someone who says their job is harder. I’ll trust the rocket scientist that tells me brain surgery is harder not the one who insists his job is harder because of the number of neurons in a brain.
Agustín Barquero
February 7, 2023 at 11:41 pm
I mean just study 1 neuron and you’ll see.
meltz
February 7, 2023 at 11:43 pm
Anyone who uses twatter obviously needs brain surgery
Trison Mutum
February 7, 2023 at 11:47 pm
Brain is very small compared to the size of rocket engine so rocket science is at least 69.7 times harder that being a neurosurgeon.
Jason M
February 7, 2023 at 11:54 pm
Maybe someone has already said this, but there are far, far, far more stars in the universe than 100 billion. There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Ullish1989
February 7, 2023 at 11:57 pm
As an advocate for reducing stigma around mental illness I agree with his comments about the Lobotomy and Thorazine being an important pathway into the understanding that mental illness was in fact an illness and not “weakness” or a character fault. It should be noted that while the Nobel Prize was won for this procedure, it was a complete failure in achieving the predicted results and even today people still live with the very real disability of having had a Lobotomy or extended Thorazine treatment and they are unable to process very simple information and problem solving.
Brian
February 8, 2023 at 12:01 am
This guy seems like he must be an absolute nightmare to his nurses and residents.
Levi Oneill
February 8, 2023 at 12:05 am
1:22 this response is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, when a person over estimates their own competence in a field of study that they know very little about.
WarEeyore
February 8, 2023 at 12:05 am
its a trick question…they both weigh the same
Netbase2000
February 8, 2023 at 12:23 am
Wait what. The brain has no pain receptors??!
Ritokazoriv
February 8, 2023 at 12:23 am
The answers I needed to the questions I didn’t even think of asking, lol!
Dan Verley
February 8, 2023 at 12:27 am
Boy, he’s an arrogant one. The smarter man would have said that he didn’t know whether brain surgery was harder than rocket science because he wasn’t a rocket scientist. Also, I’ve talked to a few brain surgeons and they do practice on cadavers.
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TripleZed
February 8, 2023 at 12:47 am
15:08 Which pain receptors is he talking about?
Deea Banu
February 8, 2023 at 12:47 am
im a doctor and i still think rocket science is harder:))
Tetra Sky
February 8, 2023 at 12:50 am
Today I learned the brain didn’t have pain receptors.
Drones Addict
February 8, 2023 at 12:55 am
well technically the universe is infinite so theres an infinite amount of stars. even if he is talking about the observable universe, there are still more stars then the neurons and the connections in your brain. and i dont understand why would someone with a doctorate give such a stupid and illogical answer.
Wonder Reef
February 8, 2023 at 12:59 am
How do you know where to cut, isn’t all of it important?
David Araújo
February 8, 2023 at 1:00 am
The “Brain” doctor, is called Brian. Let that sink in 😌
Eduardo Campos
February 8, 2023 at 1:06 am
Nice video. Lots of learning.
Hanan R.
February 8, 2023 at 1:06 am
does he not sound like Dr Mike???
Caleb Ferguson
February 8, 2023 at 1:10 am
How the brain feels: When I was on a field trip to a Cadaver lab for an Anatomy class, I remember referring to it as “A ball of chicken noodle” – It made the others feel sick bc of the smell in the room, but I swear it actually does feel like that xD
Matthew Secord
February 8, 2023 at 1:24 am
I dunno if I do this. I am trying. Freaking me out.
Nope.sorry. Appreciate it. Can’t do it.
Anil Achar
February 8, 2023 at 12:07 pm
Dr Kopell, whenever they show reel life heroes and heroines, who, when they come to, spring back into normal action, after being whacked on the back of the head, how real is it?
SnakeSonn
February 8, 2023 at 12:39 pm
this dude sounds like an f wit
Theis Gejl Fischer
February 8, 2023 at 1:03 pm
we don’t, under any circumstances, have to “give it” to lobotomies
institutional and systematic torture is not cool, no matter how many scientific advances you think are gained
Gran Earl
February 8, 2023 at 1:14 pm
Some questions answer themselves if you think about them. For example, the difference between neurosurgery and brain surgery, is pretty obvious when you consider that there are not neurons only in the brain, our whole motor, cognitive and digestive systems depend on neurons.
Débora Bonvecchio
February 8, 2023 at 1:50 pm
Yeah, he is the REAL McDreamy…
Piyush Singh
February 8, 2023 at 2:06 pm
What a dumb logic, more quantity = harder. But I understand everyone wants to think their field as the best and most crucial thing of the earth.
Ainesh Hanumanula
February 8, 2023 at 2:10 pm
is it me or does anyone else also think he looks like dr.mike
Izumi Chenmeiru
February 8, 2023 at 2:20 pm
imagine getting a world record speedrun during brain surgery, but no one believes you because you werent allowed to record it
Vee!Enna!G
February 8, 2023 at 2:29 pm
Please come back and talk more about migraines! Why do I have no auras vs ocular auras vs imagined odors (always pleasant)? How do modern migraine meds stop or reduce migraine frequency?
Barbarian Piggy
February 8, 2023 at 2:45 pm
1:47 that’s concerning
c-atkins95
February 8, 2023 at 3:06 pm
I just watched the rocket scientist video where they said rocket science is harder lol. I feel like it’s an impossible question to answer…. Neither of these people can do the other persons jobs so why would you even begin to try and say your job is harder.
Yamato BS
February 8, 2023 at 3:23 pm
I love how the Aerospace Engineers said “Rocket Science is definitely harder than Brain Surgery”
Joshua Uyan Lacaba
February 8, 2023 at 3:25 pm
If the brain doesn’t have pain receptors how come it hurts when I’m doing math????
86l ngd
February 8, 2023 at 3:30 pm
oh oh i know stomaching WIREDS topics AHAHAHA GOTEEEEEEEEEEEEM
Ghost of Valor
February 8, 2023 at 4:54 pm
so how do u block the pain of re-attaching skull pieces? bc bone being cut or drilled definitely hurts.
k8eekatt
February 8, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Now that psychiatry has advanced past lobotomy, severe mental illness is treated by eviction and people live on the street under a tarp instead of in a mental hospital.
Andreasz Mavridisz
February 8, 2023 at 5:05 pm
the number connection between neurons, not just greater than the number of stars in the universe, but even than the number of particles. but this is not the reason why its harder.
Erica’s Channel 😊
February 8, 2023 at 5:21 pm
I back in 2010 started getting massive migraines after I had my son next thing I kkow I was having seizures went in to see the doc he told me I needed a brain scan and next thing I know I’m being told I need brain surgery due to an AVM scariest moment of my life still scary today had 7 angiograms gone before I could even have the surgery
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CL56
February 8, 2023 at 5:52 pm
The physics and engineering of rocket science are for sure harder
Sofia Galvis
February 8, 2023 at 5:58 pm
We need “Rocket Scientist vs Neuro Sergeons”
Arian Emampour
February 8, 2023 at 6:01 pm
Cool guy but he needs to smile a little more haha
Happyduderawr
February 8, 2023 at 8:31 pm
what does the amount of stars in the universe have to do the rocket science lmao.
Gabrielle Zuiker
February 9, 2023 at 1:00 am
1:28 Yeah, that’s what you’d expect a neurosurgeon to say
(Dr. Glaucomflecken brought me here)
Jennifer Thompson
February 9, 2023 at 4:25 am
I would think that the doctor sneezing during surgery would be a bigger risk than the patient sneezing. I thought that was what the questioner was asking or naw?
Monsieur Clean
February 9, 2023 at 6:58 am
Brain science is pretty fun but I don’t think I could ever do rocket surgery
no body
February 9, 2023 at 7:03 am
It’s a little weird to sing the praises of lobotomy without also acknowledging how terrible it was for the people forced to have them, and how very inaccurate the physical technique was. Maybe that’s what he meant? We learned how to extremely harm people and their physiology.
Brent Lewis
February 9, 2023 at 7:09 am
Rocket Engineer here. Of course the brain surgeon is going to say brain surgery is harder. 😛 The number of connections in the brain is estimated to be 100 trillion. The current estimate of stars in just the *observable* universe is 1 septillion. That’s 10 billion times more. But I guess brain surgeons aren’t know for math.
That said, it’s probably hard to say which is more difficult. How would you even measure that? Hey, Wired. You want to interview a rocket engineer? Edit: Nevermind I see you already did.
Jesse
February 9, 2023 at 7:25 am
40 years for brain computer interface
Koroistro
February 9, 2023 at 9:06 am
If this video were a patient, the amount of unnecessary cuts would constitute malpractice.
LarkinStahl
February 9, 2023 at 11:08 am
Hahaha niceeee
Bide
February 9, 2023 at 9:28 am
Rocket surgery
Nevò Mirzai Hamadani
February 9, 2023 at 2:25 pm
The amount of connections between neurons is estimated to be around 10^15, the number of stars is around 10^24, so no, the number of connections between neurons is not greater than the number of stars, and that is a stupid explanation to say that brain surgery is harder than rocket science, you just cannot compare them if you haven’t done both
ian lavour
February 9, 2023 at 3:24 pm
he is charming
sam Love
February 9, 2023 at 4:42 pm
brain surgery is not harder you idiot
Sofia Cardoso
February 9, 2023 at 8:29 pm
Egas Moniz is not pronouced Egas Monet. But for what he has done, he deserves to get his name butchered.
colinstu
February 9, 2023 at 9:01 pm
8:17 if anyone is wondering what the blurred section says: “Wonder if that means I’ll be able to blow my brains out?”
Edu Villas
February 9, 2023 at 10:18 pm
“Nature has inconveniently placed the brain inside a box”. Yeah, it would be amazing to have our brains protected by skin alone. I feel like nothing bad could ever happen.
Omar Guardado
February 9, 2023 at 10:46 pm
i think they’re very hard to compare. Neuroscience is memorization and experience. Rocket science is veryyyyy complex math normally without a time restraint
Raul Duque
February 9, 2023 at 11:02 pm
Rocket surgery of course
Jordan Lyons
February 9, 2023 at 11:16 pm
Are you looking to act? There’s an opening for Ryles
Guy Elisha
February 9, 2023 at 11:27 pm
Rocket science is by far harder. The hardest things are the unsolved, the open questions. When you do a brain surgery, someone has done the research, has taught you, and all you need, as demanding as it is, is to execute. A rocket scientist, like a neuroscientist, do research, and thus it is way harder as no answers are available. You yourself called it a skill
Edwin V
February 10, 2023 at 12:44 am
A brain surgeon named “Brian”?? How is that not what everyone is talking about?
olivia audrie
February 10, 2023 at 12:50 am
Why does this doctor look like knock off McDreamy? 😂
Keitorin
February 10, 2023 at 1:01 am
1:21
Weebei
February 10, 2023 at 1:15 am
Rocket surgery is the hardest.
Murray Solomon
February 10, 2023 at 1:35 am
Every rocket scientist has the IQ to become a neurosurgeon. Not every neurosurgeon has the IQ and math skills to become a rocket scientist.
Marksman230591
February 10, 2023 at 1:46 am
One question I think would’ve been interesting to ask him is how have some people been able to get shot in the head and survive and sometimes even not have any notable permanent brain damage after recovering.
Yong Ih Kim
February 10, 2023 at 2:47 am
My husband has Parkinson’s Disease, and he and I are going to see him soon for deep brain stimulation surgery and this video just popped up on my feed!! Can’t wait to meet you, Dr. Kopell!
Deer
February 10, 2023 at 4:27 am
Is DBS more invasive than reinnervation surgery? Brain surgery seems to me like the MOST invasive, and if there wasnt a battery pack under the chest skin Id consider,but the idea of that grosses me out. My hair is very long too and dont want it shaved😢
Kellen
February 10, 2023 at 4:34 am
Btw his comment about neurons and stars is completely wrong. An estimated 200 sextillion stars exist. There are a hundred billion just to each galaxy
Randy Kintzley
February 10, 2023 at 5:48 am
Can’t believe that he basically gave lobotomy a pass. The practice was barbaric, and probably delayed better techniques rather than advanced them.
Light Warrior
February 10, 2023 at 7:29 am
They were asking if you had to sneeze .. not the patient.
Marjorie Johnson
February 10, 2023 at 8:04 am
Easy for me to answer..although I have tested to be very mechanical my interest is biology. The brain fascinates my ..rockets don’t interest me one tiny bit.
Vicky M
February 10, 2023 at 8:44 am
I had to have a brain surgery for something and when I woke up I had a drain in because of pressure. The stuff in it looked mostly clear but there were a lot of little tiny specks. When I asked what the specks are, I was told they were “unimportant grey matter”. When is grey matter considered “important” or not?
C
February 10, 2023 at 9:50 am
The answer is rocket surgery. That’s hardest
Jian nie
February 10, 2023 at 11:56 am
I want him back here again please
W S
February 10, 2023 at 12:49 pm
This is giving me anxiety.
J Money
February 10, 2023 at 12:57 pm
Rocket science is harder. How many brain surgeons does it take to get one Elon?
Kamen Minkov
February 10, 2023 at 1:48 pm
The term “athlete” sounds so weird when referring to video games.
James At
February 10, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Could you do Frank Abegnale answering con artist questions?
Reatile Koketso Molatlhegi
February 10, 2023 at 4:42 pm
I swear the Doc just motivated some psycho somewhere to nab somebody just to touch their brain since there is little to no recourse ‘when done right’ 💀
Emily
February 10, 2023 at 5:27 pm
now I’m going to be thinking about brain barbeques all day
Nur Martinez
February 10, 2023 at 6:05 pm
love this series!
BIGyikes
February 10, 2023 at 9:33 pm
Shout out to my boy rockcock64
Harrison Zhu
February 11, 2023 at 4:56 am
That answer to which is harder is such bs lol
Damon Duerr
February 11, 2023 at 5:26 am
I had no intention of watching this entire thing. But I did. I just couldn’t stop.
Creamy
February 11, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Harry Potter legacy review 🧐🧢🧢‼️🧢🧐🧐🧢🧐🧢😂🤣🤣🤡😂🤡💀💀💀🤡🤣😂💀💀💀💀💀💀🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
The Verminator
February 11, 2023 at 12:34 pm
I had sweaty palms during the whole video
Leo Perez
February 11, 2023 at 4:58 pm
False equivalents. Preforming surgery doesn’t equal the complexity of the brain. Rocket science is harder.
Chuckfin
February 11, 2023 at 5:49 pm
Man… I never knew that Rob Schneider was so smart!
CreationTribe
February 11, 2023 at 6:45 pm
Yep – not a great video to watch when you’re eating breakfast … (still – really interesting!)
Axcel Ctw
February 11, 2023 at 6:47 pm
There are more neurons than stars in universe=brain surgery harder….great logic there man.
walmart 1800
February 11, 2023 at 10:19 pm
Did y’all see what wired posted about Hogwarts legacy 😂 they gave it a 1/10 so glad I’m not subbed to them
Adam Glover
February 11, 2023 at 10:29 pm
All my doctor friends friends say neurosurgeons are insufferably arrogant. Nothing in this video casts any doubt on that view.
Shannon Roberts
February 11, 2023 at 10:29 pm
Hope epilepsy never never comes back to me again I’ve had two brain surgeries in my lifetime
Malak Fakhri A0202
February 11, 2023 at 10:56 pm
No one know the origin of head aches still, the explanation he gave is not reliable as it can’t be generalised through the body as all organs are vascularised…
Zuhri Kamil Mohd Sapii
February 12, 2023 at 12:20 am
So a shot to the abdomen hurts worse than a shot to the head?
Businessman
February 12, 2023 at 1:47 am
11:32 😂😂
ArtiePenguin1
February 12, 2023 at 2:06 am
Does anyone know why they blurred the actual question asked at 8:18?
It doesn’t make sense.
Also maybe someone can unblur it and tell us what it says since they didn’t seem to blur it out fully. I can make out some but not all of the letters.
Something Visceral
February 12, 2023 at 4:38 am
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see that WIRED’s journalistic integrity is a 1/10.
Doom Cat
February 12, 2023 at 5:27 am
I give this video a 1/10
T G
February 12, 2023 at 9:15 am
This guy reminds me of billy crystal
Mionwang
February 12, 2023 at 9:23 am
Cut open my skull and fondle my brain you curly haired perfect specimen of a man!
Theodor Lindstad
February 12, 2023 at 9:50 am
Having my brain operated on seems super scary, but this guy seems so qualified and professional it comforts me, if I ever had to have brain surgery 😌
Miss Alys
February 12, 2023 at 11:41 am
We still put bone flaps in peoples abdomens sometimes. :)))
Remedium
February 12, 2023 at 12:07 pm
I dunno why, when hear the neurosurgeon talk about procedures and anatomy, every bit of my life points sucked out of my body bits by bits and somehow i survive until end of the video😅
Mohammad Kamrul
February 12, 2023 at 1:09 pm
watched the rocket scientists answer rocket science to be hard and now i see him say the opposite 😐 🥲🥲🥲🥲😭😭😭😭😭
Harrison
February 12, 2023 at 1:34 pm
As a med student, yeah probably rocket science. When it comes down to it, and I’m quoting a resident here I’d never be this crass, neurosurgery is basically a vegetable farm, with some miracles, and oh yeah spine.
Mathematical Universe
February 12, 2023 at 2:03 pm
Did you know about brain wave?
Mathematical Universe
February 12, 2023 at 2:04 pm
It is a single wave.
samsthemank
February 12, 2023 at 3:30 pm
If I ever need brain surgery I want Brian to be the one to do it
Chuck Messina
February 12, 2023 at 5:28 pm
Are the patterns of gyri and sulci unique to each person like a fingerprint or standard for everyone?
ghost man scores
February 12, 2023 at 5:58 pm
Rocket surgery
SoHo
February 12, 2023 at 7:02 pm
My mom is an aerospace engineer and my dad is a heart surgeon. My mom always says that being a surgeon is way harder than being an engineer. My dad agrees lol
meg
February 13, 2023 at 1:37 pm
dangggg you must be well off! super impressive jobs.
Wheelie Wobbly
February 12, 2023 at 7:23 pm
McDreamy!😁
Joel Sam
February 12, 2023 at 9:07 pm
I can vouch for that smell🫡
Kilian Seibl
February 12, 2023 at 9:34 pm
as an aerospace engineer i’m offended
Juan Esteban
February 12, 2023 at 10:00 pm
he looks like a deepfake in the best way possible
Felix Henson
February 12, 2023 at 10:00 pm
I wonder what the difference between gamma knife surgery and radiotherapy is
brunerguy1
February 13, 2023 at 1:27 am
Dr. Brian, two errors of fact. 86 billion neurons now accepted as number (not 100 billion) and the 100 trillion connections in the brain, while an extraordinarily large number, is minute compared to all the stars in the universe…there are individual galaxies with as many stars as brain synapses. Otherwise, great responses.
Michaela Miller
February 13, 2023 at 3:59 am
I’m an origami artist. give me a box of origami paper and I’ll fold everyone beautiful, perfect paper cranes for everyone in the OR during my brain surgery 🤣
SuperAlphaKirby
February 13, 2023 at 4:16 am
He looks exactly like how a neurosurgeon should look.
Aria
February 13, 2023 at 7:29 am
i need a cardiac surgeon video now!!!
Azraa H
February 13, 2023 at 8:45 am
He’s the real like McDreamy
lionkingfan
February 13, 2023 at 11:21 am
Is there a career being a professor of brain surgery?
Cherri Berri
February 13, 2023 at 11:51 am
The brain surgeon getting a space fact wrong while saying neurosirgery is harder than aerospace engineering is just a perfect demonstration that neither is better
zachary sherry
February 13, 2023 at 8:12 pm
Brain surgery for sure is harder. What I really desperately need to know is how you learn to deal with other stupid humans because you’re obviously genius. Are you just frustrated with them all the time? Help me 🙁
Pūnāwelewele
February 13, 2023 at 11:05 pm
This is the first time I’ve seen the interviewed person answer a question asked by a psychopath. The question was, “what would happen if I swirled my finger around in an exposed brain”.
oscar alho
February 14, 2023 at 2:57 am
Actually, if you compare the number of combinations the 86 billion neurons can make with each other. A fair comparison would be the number of gravitational interaction that each of the 200 sextillion stars can make with each other. And I think that neurons can only make synapses with neurons that share the same network (thus the importance of contextualization when teaching). But each stars makes an attractive force (gravitational) in every other star in the universe (they may decrease with the distance, but never disappears completely). While a neuron can only communicate (by sinapses) with other neuron that share a synaptic cleft. I do not think it would be wise to affirm brain surgery is harder than rocket science (or vice versa). As this would look as an attitude of exaggerated self importance or superiotiy over others. “The greatest blunders have often been caused by the arrogance of power, and the best successes by the humility of those who wielded it.” – Theodore Roosevelt
tbc
February 14, 2023 at 4:46 am
If I was a surgeon, my scrub hat would be a Half-Life Headcrab, or have an image of a brain so it looks like I don’t have a skull.
Sarth Gotarne
February 14, 2023 at 5:04 am
Man took his name Seriously lmao …
Ventitty
February 14, 2023 at 9:42 am
I’d love to see a hypnotist answer questions – there’s such a stigma around it and using it as therapy
BeeBeeC
February 14, 2023 at 2:24 pm
The lobotomy was immoral and I don’t care how many words are used to try and make it sound anything less than barbaric.
Sarza
February 14, 2023 at 2:52 pm
I’m a neurologist—got a kick out of this haha
B-zad
February 14, 2023 at 6:10 pm
As a rocket engineer I can tell you that rocket science is not that hard. rocket manufacturing is the real challenge
argoth83
February 14, 2023 at 7:08 pm
This was absolutely fascinating.
Carolina Pereira
February 14, 2023 at 7:20 pm
As a portuguese the way he said Egas Moniz made me die a little….
PrettyBoyToxic999
February 14, 2023 at 7:36 pm
0:30 THAT’S THE GOAT ARTIST‼️
Biia Sanches
February 14, 2023 at 8:58 pm
This guy is amazing! I am on my second year of pre med and I cannot wait to be able to witness this happening and learn these things! Amazing video 💕⭐
LivingLife 18
February 14, 2023 at 9:38 pm
This guy is no joke 😂
claire davis
February 15, 2023 at 12:34 am
I love it but I’m so confused by his terminology!
Jack Pingel
February 15, 2023 at 1:27 am
Learn on the job, makes sense, but I’d be horrified to get a rookie surgeon
zephaniah666
February 18, 2023 at 1:19 am
If the brain has no pain receptors then the best way to kill yourself really is to shoot yourself in the head?
Nate Renken
February 18, 2023 at 3:10 am
I thought he’d be humble and say rocket science. He lost my respect
Veggie Burger
February 18, 2023 at 5:54 am
clicked cuz he’s hot
bella brie
February 18, 2023 at 8:40 am
His name is Brian and he is a brain surgeon. Seems like fate.
whatever
February 18, 2023 at 9:49 am
You need brains to make rockets, but brains will not be able to make biological brain with tech.
leonelp51
February 18, 2023 at 12:36 pm
4:49 the husband of my aunt who was a pilot, had an accident while taking off in a cessna. They ended up upsidedown. His father broke his pelvis and femur but he broke his skull. Nowadays he haves a plaque like that but actually you cant notice it unless you touch his head.
Fadhil Syarif
February 18, 2023 at 2:35 pm
My knees and whole body were basically trembling and feels weak while watching this.
Samer Timan
February 18, 2023 at 4:34 pm
تبارك الله احسن الخالقين
cristodyslexium
February 18, 2023 at 5:35 pm
Rocket surgery is harder
Alexis
February 18, 2023 at 5:50 pm
I had a brain bleed while I was 7 months pregnant. Dr Friedman at Duke University operated on me while I was pregnant to remove the damaged tissue and kiwi sized tumor. I had a stroke and could not talk. It was in my left frontal temporal lobe. I maintained function of my right side and the day after surgery. I regained my speech, reading and writing. I also was able to keep my hair. He is a god. He saved my life and my daughter’s life.
Alex Coman
February 18, 2023 at 6:55 pm
1:23 Question in thumbnail. Don’t know which is harder, probably brain surgery, but his answer is utter bs
Sean Monday
February 18, 2023 at 7:04 pm
Rockcock64 lmfao
Dotsanddash
February 18, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Hands down neuro is harder, I was into astrophysics and rocket sciences, change of plans got into med school, you have formulas and rule of thumb to go by in physics but neuro is a different ball game, so many unknowns, so many variables, you are trying to operate on something you don’t know enough of, its a very tough subject, so many nucleus’ , so many tracts, so many areas, it’s a very complicated subject.
Comment ForTheAlgo
February 18, 2023 at 9:17 pm
the fact he says youman beans is weird to me 2:04
S
February 19, 2023 at 12:02 am
why?
S
February 18, 2023 at 9:37 pm
His name perfectly fits what he does
Scyphe
February 18, 2023 at 10:23 pm
Uhm, doc forgot a “couple” of zeroes when he compared the number of neurons in a brain to the number of stars in the universe. “Scientists estimate that there are between 30 and 70 billion trillion stars in the universe.” 🤔
Per Sjölin
February 19, 2023 at 12:12 am
Although, parts of the “being awake while undergoing brain surgery” is fairly outdated at most high-standard institutions. The instruments avaiable today simply eliminate the need to keep the patient awake. I’m one of those patients. Before, all DBS patients had to be awake for the procedure, now you usually don’t (some instutions and countries excluded).
the1reaper33
February 19, 2023 at 3:00 am
Imagine asking a neurosurgeon if they know about something directly related to their field
OMID
February 19, 2023 at 3:27 am
you can’t touch even my dog bro wtf scary
Alanna McNeill
February 19, 2023 at 6:18 am
I was not awake during my brain surgery.
Noora Queen
February 19, 2023 at 9:42 am
I’m sorry but I googled him and the doctor does not look 52
WaterTeaFan
February 19, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Very interesting
The Anonymous Legion
February 19, 2023 at 8:59 pm
As a med student who’s involved with a decent amount of NSGY research currently, I feel like it’s an impossible comparison. While I can imagine myself doing NSGY if I mustered up the courage to stick with the merciless grind that it is, I don’t believe I’m intellectually capable of doing rocket science. Maybe my experience biases me to say this, but when I think of rocket science, I think of logical geniuses and mathematical freaks. My understanding was that only people near the top of the IQ spectrum can even consider doing something that requires as much abstract calculation/reasoning as rocket science. Maybe I’m wrong though?
Of course, a great degree of intelligence is required to be a neurosurgeon, but there is variability in terms of what *type* of NSGY. The super next level stuff (e.g. functional NSGY, brain-computer interfaces, etc.) probably matches rocket science in terms of intellectual capability but a baseline NSGY job, though insanely competitive to reach, eventually has a cap on the pure abstract thinking involved. The emotional intelligence, higher stakes (in most cases), and unpredictability in some cases does count for something though, but ultimately, I guess neither one can imagine doing the other’s job.
Shaunanigans
February 19, 2023 at 10:53 pm
That guy’s ears were.. interesting
Dave Portillo
February 19, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Nice 👍🏼
Evan Epic
April 22, 2023 at 10:50 pm
dream cheating at a speedrun while having brain surgery be like…
Sabrina René
April 23, 2023 at 12:30 pm
6:26 this guy is terrifying to look at 😂😂
Andrew Sherwood
April 23, 2023 at 3:10 pm
Brain surgery is orders of magnitude more difficult than rocket science or rocket engineering. We’ve had brains for our whole existence and barely understand them, but a thousand years playing with gunpowder: got us to the moon, put thousands of useful devices in orbit, lets us keep a semi-permanent human presence in orbit, and expanded our knowledge of “rocket science” to be nearly complete.
If neuroscience is so easy, why does the patient need to be awake and performing tasks to ensure that they’re not losing function?
The human brain is the single most complex thing in the known universe.
Rockets are incredibly simple physics, the product of a few hundred years of tinkering with chemistry and ballistics.
The human brain, and the mind it contains, is the product of billions of years of biological evolution.
It’s really no surprise that it has been difficult to master.
Zord90X
April 27, 2023 at 11:55 am
It is true that we do not know the foundations of conscience, but to say it is orders of magnitude, let alone more difficulty than rocket science, is pretty stupid. There are several reasons as to why there has only ever been 1 rocket that went to the moon in half a century. Try making a rocket that will bring you to Mars yourself without the use of any high level super computer that only NASA has.
Joseph Keaster
April 23, 2023 at 6:48 pm
My hungry ahh could never be a brain surgeon 💀
Nakota
April 23, 2023 at 10:47 pm
Saying NS is harder is spoken like a true NS. lmfao. The egos on these MFs.
Stephen Richardson
April 25, 2023 at 10:49 am
All you need is a bag of Fritos to imitate the smell of burning flesh
Stephanie Jean
April 25, 2023 at 12:31 pm
Imo brain surgery is much harder because I’ve alwsys been mechanically inclined…its what I do, fabrication and engineering comes easy to me. Gooey things much harder. 😉
quaesitor
April 25, 2023 at 12:33 pm
There are WAY more stars in the universe than connections between neurons.
Vanshika Songara
April 25, 2023 at 2:44 pm
now I wanna be a NEUROSURGEON💀🤞
gabriel magnani
April 26, 2023 at 7:07 am
Rocket science is not very hard, the concept is not hard, is fairly simple and the math while is laborous for humans it is fairly easy for computers
Sher
April 26, 2023 at 7:19 am
How they get to the skull without severing the muscle that moves your forehead
Kim Pham
April 26, 2023 at 6:51 pm
Surprised no one said it but he’s real life McDreamy
Megan Acree
April 26, 2023 at 8:47 pm
I would really hope that a neurosurgeon finds neuroscience much easier than rocket science, but that’s just me lol
Santiago Golding
April 27, 2023 at 12:20 am
his “oh gosh, really? ” reaction to the comment about running a finger across the brain basically is the same of saying “and that is why your not a brain surgeon”
Gabriel Cruz
April 27, 2023 at 7:30 am
People always say that about stars in the universe compared to neurons, but it’s not like these people are learning about the neurons and the physicists learning about all the stars.
That’s not the job.
Sharonmxg
April 27, 2023 at 8:59 am
Lobotomies must be one of the most regrettable medical procedures.
NoHero
April 27, 2023 at 9:35 am
The answer for brain surgery vs rocket science really didn’t actually provide an answer.
M.M.
April 27, 2023 at 11:45 am
I would like to know which one is harder: Words in the medical books and stuff or Twitter usernames
neach-giùlain uisge
April 27, 2023 at 7:17 pm
Rocket Surgery…..hardest of all.
Sean Kenny
April 27, 2023 at 10:14 pm
“..but a healthy brain can be touched with very little recourse.”
Duly noted.
KingCupKing
April 28, 2023 at 11:31 am
does a person temper is caused by abnormal electrical patterns activity in the brain?
Shashwat Tripathi
April 28, 2023 at 11:36 am
This man is inspiration behind Mc dreamy character in Grey`s Anatomy
varun saini
April 28, 2023 at 12:48 pm
I am a medical student and i can hear him all DAY…👏👏
J A
April 28, 2023 at 7:13 pm
A lot more stars than 100 billion
Chanse Gierbolini
April 28, 2023 at 8:20 pm
11:33 lmfao
@WinchesterxNL
April 14, 2024 at 9:14 am
As someone with severe anxiety.
I wonder how they would deal with that.
Because I feel like I would have a massive panic attack. With hyperventilation, the works.
Guess it would be easy for them though to see what’s going on. Lol
@tammystratford7079
April 14, 2024 at 11:53 am
My cauterized flesh smelled like burning hair. Disgusting.
@cb7pwn
April 14, 2024 at 6:53 pm
and this everyone, is looking in to the eyes of a psychopath!
@lemsx1
April 14, 2024 at 10:27 pm
What a great video but this didn’t age well we already have NeuroLink
@dcmirk
April 15, 2024 at 12:16 am
Lobotomy is still legal in many states. Technically, legally, a patient can be involuntarily lobotomized by a doctor.
@heatherlyy
April 15, 2024 at 1:52 am
I still can’t believe they make a skull pocket in your abdomen 😮
@NavajoNinja
April 15, 2024 at 10:09 am
How many lumps of sugar does a brain surgeon use?
Two-more
@Familylawgroup
April 15, 2024 at 5:42 pm
I would love to know what he thinks of the conjoined twins joined at the thalamus. One twin can see through the other twin’s eyes. I would love to hear what a neurosurgeon thinks that might teach the medical world.
@josuemelendez4300
April 15, 2024 at 5:56 pm
This amazing guy is actually my neurosurgeon. He is absolutely amazing, as is his entire staff. I’m geeking out watching this video!
@dalestaley5637
April 15, 2024 at 6:41 pm
I’m an anesthetist and have done these cases where our patients are aware. We’ve had guitar playing, all the activities he’s described. It’s an amazing day when you’re assigned for these. I love neurosurgery cases.
@ruiangeles9796
April 15, 2024 at 7:04 pm
This neurosurgeon is not just handsome but also explains well 🥰 is he mcdreamy? Anyway as a nurse who worked sometime in the OR, i agree the smell of burning human flesh is really distinct but its ok for me, what I makes me really squirmish is the cutting of the sternum or mandibles, or skull 😵💫
@raddafiskie
April 15, 2024 at 8:31 pm
The comparison between the number of connections in the human brain and the number of stars in the universe is a popular way to convey the complexity of the neural network in our brains, but it lacks a precise scale for comparison.
The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons. Each neuron can form thousands of synaptic connections with other neurons, leading to an estimated 100 trillion synapses or neural connections. This number, while immensely large, is not quite comparable to current estimates of the number of stars in the observable universe.
The observable universe, according to astronomers, may contain around 100 billion galaxies, each with potentially hundreds of billions of stars. Estimates suggest there could be around 10^22 to 10^24 stars, which is orders of magnitude greater than the number of synapses in the human brain.
So, while the number of synapses in the human brain is astronomical and reflects a vast network of connections, the number of stars in the observable universe is still substantially larger based on current astronomical observations and estimates.
@profjoshtan
April 15, 2024 at 10:40 pm
There are more neural connections (10^14) in the brain than stars in the GALAXY (10^11). There are more stars in the universe than neural connections since there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in our own galaxy (10^11*10^11 = 10^22).
@eldritchyarnbeing3295
April 16, 2024 at 1:13 am
my grandma had surgery for tremors and she was sat up playing sudoku while they poked around her brain, thats just so wild to me
@MusicalBoarder
April 16, 2024 at 5:07 am
There aren’t more neurological connection in the brain than stars in the universe. There are however more neurological question than stars in the galaxy. Quite a big difference.
@majkolsson7192
April 16, 2024 at 5:58 am
Well, the last answer was wrong.
@mrpicky1868
April 16, 2024 at 6:36 am
so are there or are there not ping receptors in the brain?
@akashaabeysundara8454
April 16, 2024 at 7:51 am
i hate when people say one study field is harder than the rest. I think every field is harder, if you don’t have the right skills.
@gedscouserable
April 16, 2024 at 8:28 am
There are 86,000,000,000 (87 Billion) neurons in the brain. There are 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (200 Billion Trillion) stars in the universe. Although rocket science is basically just plumbing.
@cwcarson
April 16, 2024 at 8:46 am
Not sure you want a gamer throwing his controller during brain surgery.
@ricksomething
April 16, 2024 at 10:47 am
I’m a doctor of rocket surgery. Come at me.
@wazlawik
April 16, 2024 at 12:46 pm
100 bilions stars is the total just of the Milky Way, not the Universe
@thehubbleton
April 16, 2024 at 5:36 pm
My tumor definitely was not delicious.
@danielhale1
April 16, 2024 at 7:24 pm
I think a suction tube is more or less how people have imagined curing me of autism since I was a kid. Best they don’t learn about this option. 😀
@flamingmonkeyxii
April 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm
This was cool, but I couldn’t help thinking he looked like Steve Guttenberg in Short Circuit.
@filipealves6295
April 16, 2024 at 11:02 pm
At around 6:24, his name was Egas Moniz (read something like “Ehguj Mooneej” in english) not what he said. ‘Source’: I’m Portuguese and so was he, and yes it is a f’ed up thing
@lornaduwn
April 16, 2024 at 11:17 pm
I’m in healthcare and really appreciated the “then we get lunch” comment. Healthcare worker’s have the uncanny ability to deal with some of the grossest situations without losing their appetite.
@ghostbirdlary
April 16, 2024 at 11:37 pm
1:34 that is not true lol. theres quintillions of stars at least in the universe
@randomexploring541
April 16, 2024 at 11:59 pm
He didn’t explain why lobotomies were a thing! They should have never been a thing! Refer to the movie Sucjer Punch for proof!
@DragonLandlord
April 17, 2024 at 12:35 am
My scent seizures smell like somone mowed rotting plants.
@itsROMPERS...
April 17, 2024 at 2:31 am
BOO! You didn’t answer the question about headaches! You said the “pain receptors are stimulated” but WHAT pain receptors? You said there are nine in the brain itself, so where are the headache pain receptors?
@EfiniX
April 17, 2024 at 2:43 am
Good Lord, are you paying the editor based on number of cuts?!?
@ricardobarakat
April 17, 2024 at 3:10 am
Bro talks like he’s getting brain surgery done rn
@ZorinZato
April 17, 2024 at 3:23 am
His little grin at “RockCock” made me realize that despite him being a neurosurgeon, this guy and I aren’t so different after all lol
@Just1Nora
April 17, 2024 at 4:16 am
I’ve heard of tms, and actually have gone so far as getting everything but insurance coverage, but that was meant to help my depression. If I could get it and improve my depression and adhd? I’d be friggin unstoppable! Oh wait…chronic pain has entered the chat. 😅
@rosmarbal
April 17, 2024 at 5:33 am
He is excellent at explaining. Great communicator
@matthewsmith4075
April 17, 2024 at 5:59 am
Human cooking: smells like pork/ bacon… Electricuted myself and had a patch of skin that smelt really good.. Curiosity got the better of me.
There is a reason cannibal meals are cooked like pork and we are called long pig 👍
@hardboiled7467
April 17, 2024 at 10:15 am
2:00 oh yeah the smell is pretty interesting indeed, it’s more funky rather than delicious…
@thedailywin537
April 17, 2024 at 10:22 am
This fellow, and the funeral director also featured in this series, are easily two of the most engaging individuals I’ve had the pleasure of watching on YouTube, no matter the subject. The choppy editing is part of the landscape now, it would seem, but it also serves to maintain the momentum, or pace at which the subject matter experts answer the viewer questions. Fair enough.
More, please. 🙂
@suecox2308
April 17, 2024 at 10:27 am
As usual, this was another completely fascinating video on a subject I know nothing about and thought I cared less. Watched the whole thing–with thanks to Dr. Kopell.
@rogermiller2159
April 17, 2024 at 12:15 pm
Brain surgery in space?
@Freddyinthesheddy
April 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm
So if you cant blow your nose after the nasal entry, what happens if you sneeze?
@MePeterNicholls
April 17, 2024 at 5:21 pm
13:56 1mm is thicker than I imagined
@BakedPotato13
April 17, 2024 at 5:56 pm
I have a question: Is grey matter just a saying or is the brain really grey or is it pink like in movies?
@gaiusfulmen
April 17, 2024 at 9:52 pm
A living brain is mostly pink. The term “grey matter” refers to those tissues which are composed mostly of neurons, while “‘white matter” is composed mostly of their fibers. You could imagine a server room filled with a lot of computers (neuronal bodies) and all the cables (nerve fibers) connecting those servers to the rest of the building. The reason it’s called white matter is because the fibers filling such tissue are insulated with something called myelin (again, imagine a cable insulated with rubber). Myelin has a pale appearance, hence the term white matter.
@smthnew861
April 17, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Rocket science is eazy compared to anything surgery related
@galileadiaz5417
April 17, 2024 at 6:53 pm
finally a physician who mentions TMS ! It really helped my anxiety and depressive disorder when i first diagnosed a year ago !!! TMS for the win
@allsoulsinapocalypticlilac
April 17, 2024 at 7:47 pm
he absolutely botched that “Egas Moniz” pronunciation
@tojiroh
April 17, 2024 at 7:51 pm
I don’t care how accomplished you are, you do not butcher Dr Egas Moniz’s name like that scott-free! 😂🇵🇹
@nightowl6260
April 17, 2024 at 8:12 pm
FRIABLE.
@doubledutchclutch
April 17, 2024 at 8:21 pm
Did he just compare neuroscience to astronomy in an order to argue that brain surgery is harder than rocket science? That doesn’t make sense because that’s not how rocket science works.
@purelightapologetics4930
April 17, 2024 at 10:03 pm
He looks so tired
@kev3d
April 17, 2024 at 11:52 pm
So what was it like starring in the Police Academy movies?
@m3528i
April 18, 2024 at 2:12 am
Regardless the answer to which is harder, I think his answer was ridiculous. Are you manipulating neurons big guy? Why does neuron count matter? An appropriate response would relate to the value of human life, the limited time available in surgery vs the artificially imposed deadlines in rocket science or even the fact that we know much more about rockets and physics than we do about our own brain making the practice of medicine a “practice” compared to being an expert in torque coefficients and velocity etc.
@NeighborhoodOfBlue
April 18, 2024 at 2:35 am
I think I’d accept titanium before I’d accept plastic as a skull replacement.
@peachyla
April 18, 2024 at 3:11 am
se parece a dr. sheppard
@thileepkumars
April 18, 2024 at 5:09 am
nose opening hahahaha
@willrbx
April 18, 2024 at 5:59 am
cool video, helps me as a hobbyist brain surgeon!!
@missmoxie9188
April 18, 2024 at 6:03 am
Well okay, I watched as a surgeon did a craniectomy on a guy who’d crashed his motorcycle. His injuries were SO bad they didn’t even wait for me to pack up and leave.
@bigeclipse718
April 18, 2024 at 6:16 am
Didn’t Elon musk just do the first neural link. Thought you said it was decades away?
@TheOnlyToblin
April 18, 2024 at 12:33 pm
Jesus Christ, fire your editor. What the heck is up with that migraines explanation? Did anyone even watch that and say “yeah, this is fine”
@Lev15157
April 18, 2024 at 1:56 pm
14:51 for question in thumbnail
@joee7626
April 18, 2024 at 2:20 pm
Me being tempted to screw with the Doctor as he operates by ‘forgetting’ how to speak, or suddenly spouting gibberish with a straight face.
@laurakeylon778
April 18, 2024 at 3:32 pm
When I had lasik eye surgery I could smell something like flesh cooking, was that my eyes?
@Arinera
April 18, 2024 at 3:52 pm
“I highly recommend keeping ypur Thalamus” 😂
@williamwolf2844
April 18, 2024 at 4:19 pm
I’m sorry, but you messed up on the whole thing of rocket science versus brain surgery. You talked about the number of neurons, which are nodes. Then you talked about the number of connections among these nodes. But did you compare that to connections among stars in the universe? No. You compared it to the number of stars which are nodes, but simply accepting your comparison. We should look at the number of potential connections among all the stars of the universe, which will be even greater than the number of connections among the neurons.
Yes, it’s true that connections among neurons are not the same thing as gravitational connections among Stars, but that would have been the consistent comparison. So yes, you’re a big old smarty pants, but you completely missed this really basic point.
In other respects, the video is good.
@JX02123
April 18, 2024 at 4:20 pm
Neurolink did the brain google thing a few months ago.
@RyanFox85
April 18, 2024 at 4:43 pm
Cuz its not actually ur brain that hurts during a migraine or headache. Its the skull, and outter tissues and vessels that hurt. If i had to take a stab at why the brain feels no pain, i would guess it has something to do with self preservation. Think of how shock works. Experience a bad enough injury and adrenaline takes over, some people feel mild pain instead of intense pain, and others will feel literally no pain at all, because thats the point. U need to get help for yourself or u could die. Shut off the pain and u can do that. I feel like the brain would be something that would be extremely painful to even SLIGHTLY injure (if the brain felt pain) so, it purposely has no pain receptors. Just a theory though!
@ivandemiguel8607
April 18, 2024 at 8:04 pm
Lobotomy started
with Antonio Egas and he got
the noble prize for it. I do t know why they always mention the american guys but never him.
@stephunnie_NCT
April 18, 2024 at 10:17 pm
Whoever edits these videos should be fired lmao. Cut up most of the answers anyways…
@Raindropsundropgumdrop
April 18, 2024 at 11:17 pm
Imagine doing brain surgery and just being like my brain is operating on this brain. This is me. The thoughts i am having are made by what is in my hands. I’d have to lie down and have an existential crisis for at least a week.
@Waydewilson89
April 18, 2024 at 11:47 pm
The BRAIN isnt the location its the nerves mis fireing
@BaristaWithADog
April 19, 2024 at 12:31 am
I respect this surgeon, but I’m a little weirded out by the American Flag surgery cap ‘cos it doesn’t mean the same thing that it used to.
@TwoGunToast
April 19, 2024 at 1:06 am
1:58 so people have for sure died because some new surgeon had no idea wtf he was doing….cool, good to know.
@jws1948ja
April 19, 2024 at 1:34 am
I am so depressed.
@ZephyrusAsmodeus
April 19, 2024 at 1:47 am
Using focal beams of radioactive lasers is amazing, that’s brilliant
@TangledMind1018
April 19, 2024 at 2:18 am
If I was getting brain surgery, those poor surgeons and nurses would be listening to my veeery in-depth world building efforts for my book XD
@bruhmaster7522
April 19, 2024 at 3:17 am
I got a baaaad headache about 3 minutes into this 😩😂
@GSxxxRGirl
April 19, 2024 at 3:29 am
The doctor said there are 100 billion neurons in the brain, and that the number of connections is greater than the number of stars in the universe. Incorrect! There’s actually about 100 billion stars in OUR GALAXY. There’s quite a bit more in the whole universe lol roughly one septillion, which is just a rough estimate. There’s probably so many more. Just thought I’d throw that out there lol
@connorgrynol9021
April 19, 2024 at 9:58 am
Yeah, I thought that didn’t sound right.
@TheJasonBorn
April 19, 2024 at 8:01 am
If the skull pocket in the abdomen is falling out of favor, what is the preferred alternative now?
@javilorenzana
April 19, 2024 at 9:44 am
It’s absolutely rocket science. This guy is absolutely not as smart as you think he is. Or he thinks he is.
@oioDerricKoio
April 19, 2024 at 9:50 am
Just remeber that cheating /deceiving/ cutting corners is one of the core traits of Chinese culture as a whole.
It is not just sports.
@cymothoe5299
April 19, 2024 at 11:16 am
The vascular theory of migraine is way out of date. Modern theories suggest a defect with the trigeminal nerve.
@rcisneros8567
April 19, 2024 at 11:41 am
There is a reason why they are called surgeons vs doctors.
@lmw716
April 19, 2024 at 12:19 pm
After a surgery where I was awake I smelled burning, and knew they were cauterizing my insides. It was an interesting smell for sure. When they started suction I asked, “Are you vacuuming my insides?” The reply, “No, we’re suctioning them.” Which is all semantics, really. lol.
@connolec
April 19, 2024 at 1:01 pm
How about rocket surgery?
@gc1418
April 19, 2024 at 2:17 pm
No spare. I am out. I once helped a family with a flat in Yosemite. Two lane road, totally backed up. Tow truck probably 90 minutes away. Took us a while to even find the spare in this Cadillac suv.
@boofuls
April 19, 2024 at 2:42 pm
Id rather have a 🍾 in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
@ronizpop9
April 19, 2024 at 4:36 pm
If rocket science is so easy why you don’t come do the exam for me in uni m8……… i don’t appreciate when people think what they do is better than anyone else here … the way he answered the question is so distastful in my opinion … :/
@ksukat87
April 19, 2024 at 4:45 pm
Dude looks tired.
@natalieJe10
April 19, 2024 at 4:51 pm
Had surgery on my left temporal lobe for my epilepsy. (Didn’t stop the seizures lol) Either way my surgeon was AWESOME. I had to get a 2 week internal EEG before surgery. My surgeon got me photos of my brain with and without the electrodes. Neurology in general is amazing, add surgery to it and its a whole other level.
@protozaba
April 19, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Inside our body is sterile…. really?
@ziggelito
April 19, 2024 at 7:03 pm
So if the patient was able to recall a childhood memory in extreme detail, doesnt that mean our brains store tons of data that we cant access?
@KarenButNotThatKind
April 19, 2024 at 9:29 pm
I’ve had 7 brain surgeries due to a rare, benign brain tumour. I found this very interesting.
@Other_People
April 19, 2024 at 11:38 pm
Stars in the galaxy, not the universe.
@modrn_
April 19, 2024 at 11:55 pm
I don’t know why, but I can’t watch this. It makes me feel weird
@BigSkinty91
April 20, 2024 at 1:45 am
14:50 I’m fighting headaches now on top of head
@deskreverse
April 20, 2024 at 3:01 am
Great, informative video. However, the only question to which his answer did not make much sense was the one featured on the video’s thumbnail (about headaches & lack of pain receptors)… 😑
@DenvaProbablyDraws
April 20, 2024 at 3:01 am
1:20 of course brain surgery is harder, you’ve got someone’s life on the line IN the moment. With rocket science you do have lives on the line, but you have like weeks and months to make sure they’re going to be safe lol.
@coconoisette
April 20, 2024 at 3:29 am
3:34 and if you go to a certain type of doctor, they get lunch and THEN they put the bone back!
@Antikyth
April 20, 2024 at 4:58 am
So I watched this whole video to have the thumbnail question answered… and it wasn’t. Migraines occur even though the brain has no pain receptors by… stimulating ‘the pain receptors’. Clearly there’s two options here: the doctor is completely contradicting himself, or simply not mentioning where those pain receptors are and how they cause migraines to feel like they’re in your brain. And if the answer is going to be that devoid of useful information, I don’t see why it was featured in the video in the first place.
@TjallieBrrr
April 20, 2024 at 6:41 am
As far as i know most headaches are caused by the muscles around the skull and the face or around/behind the eyes, where there are also lots of nerve ends/pain receptors.
Massaging your jaw, face and skull and gently around the eyeballls + getting rid of all light sources are a great way to reduce migraines.
I cant really name the exact spots cause it depends on the area that hurts but by doing this you’ll learn what works best for you.
@George32027
April 20, 2024 at 6:59 am
Super interesting and the doctor is super cool! Thanks fro what you do
@brayton1065
April 20, 2024 at 7:07 am
How does someone play guitar when having surgery? Like What if they move?😅
@ruthieemery8798
April 20, 2024 at 8:54 am
It would have been nice to have heard something about cerebral revascularization. Moyamoya disease needs more attention, even in neurosurgery apparently.
@roejac9905
April 20, 2024 at 9:28 am
“They learn on the job”
Me, some scared of doctors: 🥲
@chispychisp1690
April 20, 2024 at 10:20 am
0:19 as someone who held a real brain I’d say it feels like a really tight bag of spaghetti
@timucinbahsi445
April 20, 2024 at 11:35 am
q: how does my brain hurt if it doesn’t have pain receptors?
a: the pain receptors are stimulated
i think that one’s a point for team rocket science
@sacr3
April 20, 2024 at 11:38 am
Did he just explain a migraine by saying blood cells tense up and relax? It’s not the blood cells, it’s the vessels, arteries and veins lol
@goose9514
April 20, 2024 at 12:06 pm
imagine doing surgery and just see the patient finish a game multiple times within a minute or two
@eriberry6078
April 20, 2024 at 12:48 pm
Have never seen a neurosurg have this much personality before
@fioreariadne
April 20, 2024 at 12:58 pm
These are the people that should be earning millions, not politicians, entertainers or athletes.
@hina9324
April 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm
He is giving MC DREAMY VIBES
@lissakaye610
April 20, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Blood cells constrict?!? Or blood vessels? Ive never heard of blood cells themselves constricting…. Lysing… maybe. This doesn’t sound right.
@chancewebster7953
April 20, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Tofu and jello 🤨🤨
@Yourenotreal7
April 20, 2024 at 10:05 pm
😳
@EdBoi18
April 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm
11:46 just have him talk about parallel universes the whole time. Lol
@dee20221
April 20, 2024 at 10:37 pm
Ope someone should tell this guy about Neuralink. His final predictions in the video show he isn’t aware of the breakthroughs they are having
@drengillespie
April 20, 2024 at 10:37 pm
people smell like wet matches and cheap bacon. The fatter the person, the better it smells like fatty bacon.
@sarahmagden9017
April 20, 2024 at 10:49 pm
I’ve had an ETV for adult onset obstructive hydrophlaous. It was super cool. My surgeon walked me through everything, which made me feel comfortable and confident before I went into his OR , Marc Goldmen is a wonderful neurosurgeon.
@Jwellsuhhuh
April 20, 2024 at 11:14 pm
11:14 screw Alzheimer’s! I need this kind of stimulation device during my exams
@epicwolf3
April 20, 2024 at 11:52 pm
Randomly came across your video and really enjoyed learning more, especially since my sister had deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Myoclonus Dystonia. Such interesting questions and answered! P.S. surgery was a big success for her!
@RustySpoons6490
April 21, 2024 at 12:28 am
14:50 for the thumbnail question
@Shifty_Mist
April 21, 2024 at 3:04 am
“We’re close to having brain computer things, it would take decades though” -a neurosurgeon a year ago
Elon: hold my teslas
*basically implants a fitbit into someone’s skull a few weeks ago*
@GaryKetchum808
April 21, 2024 at 3:35 am
Why do you look like Tom Hardy?
@beardy4831
April 21, 2024 at 3:48 am
Who many gigabytes of information can the brain store usefully?
@chiefschillaxn1781
April 21, 2024 at 7:56 am
Humans smell bad when cooked because we only eat garbage in the modern diet. Same reason cows have no flavor their diet isnt traditional.
@Zeferenthial
April 21, 2024 at 8:55 am
Imagine gamma knifing a guy’s brain vein to give them a stroke
@klenhattMate
April 21, 2024 at 10:00 am
I would also say that surgery is harder because you’re unboxing this man’s head manually on your own. Each cut means a lot. One thing that is common between Rocket, and Surgery is that you have no time to waste. Every second matters. You mess up once, you can’t go back.
@SOU6900
April 21, 2024 at 1:17 pm
I asked this same question to a neurologist that I went to about mine and he didn’t give me an answer, just like this video.😕
@AceneDean
April 21, 2024 at 2:38 pm
Classic god complex of surgeons. My guy just straight-faced answered the rocket science vs. brain surgery as if he knew enough about both to be objective. 😂
@LexyThomas134
April 21, 2024 at 3:37 pm
5:25 someone check up on this person lol
@cheleshows
April 21, 2024 at 4:19 pm
Why is keeping the skull fragment in the abdomen, falling out of favor?
@manuelwie
April 21, 2024 at 4:54 pm
the last answer he gave is huge. being able to learn anything (potentially a lot) quicker could absolutely be one of the most decisive technologies in this era.
imagine being able to learn things two or three times as fast as now. that would be such a huge boost to basically anything. the questions that come up for me, then, are either morality issues or possible side effects (especially in the early stages).
@KhesedBE
April 21, 2024 at 6:52 pm
7:00 is this neurosurgeon really out here defending lobotomies?? I hope he’s never my doctor 😬
@JackStrood
April 21, 2024 at 7:03 pm
Can you video chapter the answers
@FutureAIDev2015
April 21, 2024 at 7:23 pm
That’s something that I’ve never thought of before. Even though I’ve been a patient many many times undergoing surgery, as I’ve been under general anesthesia for every single one of them, I don’t experience the smell of what’s going on during the actual operation. Based on your description, though, it probably is not very fun at all. I do know what burning plastic and burning hair smells like, and I imagine electrocautery makes a vaguely similar smell to singed hair.
@rockaDrock
April 21, 2024 at 8:22 pm
There’s more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone. Keep your day job Doc.
@JayTemple
April 21, 2024 at 11:40 pm
0:43 Have you operated on a Deaf person? If so, were their hands free to sign in the same scenario as when other patients spoke?
@lindaross783
April 22, 2024 at 1:35 am
Informative and entertaining. Way to go Doc!
@chriserony
April 22, 2024 at 1:47 am
Love his answer for the labatomy question. Most of the education we have about the brain was done in the earlier part of the 20 century. They were highly unethical but without knowing what we know now, they couldn’t have known the extent to how unethical they were. Now it is very hard to study regions of the brain, we have to rely on volunteer patients who have unusual developments or freak accidents basically.
@Davichiz
April 22, 2024 at 4:51 am
If they’d see me sign my name they’d swear I had brain damage.
@Sinonymous
April 22, 2024 at 5:13 am
Ok… time to get off the internet for the night…
@Gadzookss
April 22, 2024 at 9:18 am
what i wanna know is there a way to help stim your memory increase for your autism spectrum.
im 35, autistic and my memory has gotten so bad where i feel like im around 80-90, get a few amnesia fits now and then.
@harjitkumar917
April 22, 2024 at 11:01 am
okay, this doctor can easily be in a hospital drama series..
@craigdovebloke
April 22, 2024 at 11:28 am
Rocket science not that complicated, rocket engineering however……😁
@NarutoUzumaki-vc4wy
April 22, 2024 at 11:50 am
15:13 did he mean vessels?
@oliviaakya
April 22, 2024 at 12:05 pm
This man’s name is Brian. That’s perfect.
@gracel320
April 22, 2024 at 2:07 pm
I appreciate the delicacy that you spoke of lobotomies with. Unfortunately with a lot of medical science and how we’ve learned a lot that is arguably important for us to know, the methods have been less than ideal (to put it lightly).
@gracel320
April 22, 2024 at 2:13 pm
Why did you make this neurosurgeon read out the username “rockcock64” 😭😭💀💀 I’m dead
@JoneOfBark
April 22, 2024 at 4:08 pm
This video is was really fascinating but made me feel a bit queasy, think my brain found this uncomfortable! 😕
@infrared561
April 22, 2024 at 5:39 pm
All these cut-ins and close-ups gave me a seizure.
@blackAngel88it
April 22, 2024 at 8:24 pm
1:15 “The brain in of itself has no pain receptors”
14:49 “The brain does not feel pain as it has no pain receptors. If that is the case, why do we experience headaches?”
15:02 “In the case of migraines, the blood cells constrict, and then as the blood cells begin to relax, that physical relaxation stimulates the pain receptors and causes the pain.”
I think you got a bit confused or forgot something…
@walterhartwellwhite7324
April 22, 2024 at 9:45 pm
rick grimes lead singer of coldplay lookin mf
edit: AND TOM HARDY
@gdrdm
April 22, 2024 at 11:14 pm
One of the main hospitals in Lisbon, Portugal, is named after Egas Moniz, the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner for the Lobotomy referenced at 6:25. Also, the Oporto — largest Portuguese city after Lisbon — International Airport is named after Francisco Sá Carneiro, who died in a plane crash.
@taghiabiri3489
April 23, 2024 at 2:05 am
Unclear answer with the migrane question. The question was good, if there are no pain receptors in the brain, why headache? Answer: after contraction of the blood cells follows their relaxation wich stimulates the pain receptors. WICH pain receptors??
@Deathbecomesme3
April 23, 2024 at 3:28 am
Any man who has had a vasectomy is INTIMATELY familiar with what cooking human flesh smells like.
@OakenTome
April 24, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Vasectomies that don’t use cauterization are pretty common.
@Jen-vp7gt
April 23, 2024 at 6:08 am
Me not watching this on an empty stomach: I got this
Me after 2.5 minutes: NOPE
@RobDaKid87
April 23, 2024 at 8:51 am
Since we’ve basically closed mental institutions, crime and mental disorders have gone through the roof. And people on anti-psychotics and anti-depressants are at an all-time high. Clearly, something isn’t working.
@roulejj1342
April 23, 2024 at 1:59 pm
This guy is the king of the hospital and he knows it
@anuruddhakids
April 23, 2024 at 3:11 pm
Thank you
@johndaltrocanto
April 23, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Personally I don’t get the appeal of neurosurgery, sure it sounds cool when you say it, but it’s not any more difficult than other surgical specialties. Me personally I’m going into trauma surgery, which tickles me much better.
@davidpepin3017
April 23, 2024 at 7:13 pm
The question about what’s more complicated, brain surgery or rocket science, he gave the wrong answer.
He answered as if the question was “what is more complicated, a brain or rocket science?”.
A brain surgeon does not know everything about the brain, he knows everything we know about the brain.
So, what is more complicated, learning everything we know about the brain or everything about rocket science?
@Wolfman6743
April 23, 2024 at 9:12 pm
I have Hydrocephalus. Born with it, had 3 brain surgeries by the time I was 2 years old. My Neurosurgeon was (and still is, to the best of my knowledge) toted as one of the best pediatric neurosurgeons in Canada. He put my shunt in (1993 or ’94, somewhere in there) and it kept going strong until December 2018, when it finally just stopped. Dr. Hollenberg has long since retired (he was ancient even when I was a kid lol) but my new neurosurgeon saved my life that day. Apparently my shunt has been in place for so long that it really can’t be removed very easily, so instead of replacing it, my new doctor used a newer technique where he bypassed the need for a shunt by opening up one of the ventricles in my brain, so I guess my hydrocephalus is technically cured?
@TurboWindex
April 23, 2024 at 9:40 pm
14:55 for the answer
@jessicapalhares8436
April 24, 2024 at 2:41 am
“[…] in essence what you’re doing is cooking flesh and human being have a very particular smell when they are being cooked”
“Finally someone who understands me!” Lecter, Hannibal.
@Wadelmaz
April 24, 2024 at 6:13 am
I’m a traditional tanner, and my favourite varietee, buckskin, is tanned with (deer/pig) brains. It definitely has its own unique smell – I cook the brains in order to minimize risk of prion diseases, so I think I know what you’re talking about! To me the smell reminds me of a really fatty sauce, there’s almost a nutty tinge to it. Definitely weird!
@TheSpookiestSkeleton
April 24, 2024 at 9:36 am
“Very rudimentary” you can say it was dogshit, it’s okay, the profanity is justified
@couththememer
April 24, 2024 at 9:57 am
Only a brain can think of ways to perform surgeries on other brains
@ayshashahid2398
April 24, 2024 at 11:20 am
Wow, you have lot of patience 😊
@bigyang5847
April 24, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Bro doing BioSQL
@liana4952
April 24, 2024 at 3:07 pm
this was amazing 😮 ty
@JayM928
April 24, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Clicked this vid for the headache question, and it’s the one Q that wasn’t answered.
Q: if the brain has no pain receptors, why does a migraine make my head feel like it has an ax in it?
A: the blood vessels activate pain receptors.
So there are pain receptors?
@Tuxon86
April 24, 2024 at 9:25 pm
If the brain is a vital organ, how come so many young people in college can live without one?
@alexcrawford5350
April 25, 2024 at 5:31 am
1:16 Huh, that’s interesting.
@tattycakes2k2
April 25, 2024 at 5:54 am
How do you sterilise a musical instrument for the operating theatre?
@asialsky
April 25, 2024 at 5:55 am
“Which is harder?”
Well, if you make a mistake in surgery, you usually only lose one person. Rockets are a weeeee bit easier to send several people to a fiery grave; it only takes one loose bolt.
@boingyboop4960
April 25, 2024 at 8:48 am
What’s grey matter?
@teresamateus
April 25, 2024 at 12:38 pm
He meant *Egaz Monis at 6:25
@denisdubovik228
April 25, 2024 at 12:51 pm
1:31 This is false. The amount of connections between neurons isn’t even close to the amount of stars.
@lemmings1892
April 25, 2024 at 5:27 pm
8:13 Of course I’ll check my friends brains during the sleepover
@lisasallery7860
April 25, 2024 at 7:49 pm
I have the same question about other organs! I have a stomach x2 and can actually touch my intestines. You can’t feel the touch. I could put a knife across it, it would bleed but wouldn’t hurt. So why do we get tummy ache? Same for kidneys. If no nerves why does a kidney infection hurt?
@zackattack5803
April 25, 2024 at 9:15 pm
“Brain has no pain receptors” but “blood cells relaxing trigger pain receptors”. Im sure its partly due to the shotty editing on the program’s part, but this literally makes no sense taken out of context, and the ‘tweet’ doesnt really explain it that well at all.
@furiusstiles3214
April 26, 2024 at 1:19 am
@3:52 it’s time for him to stand up
@scottjurrjens8954
April 26, 2024 at 2:18 am
Idk where he got 100 billion estimated stars in the universe. It’s more like an estimated 200 billion galaxies wich could contain upto 20 quadrillion stars in the visible universe.
@unifiedhorizons2663
April 26, 2024 at 3:12 am
I have a question. what happens if the skull of a patient is destroyed but he still has brain function. so like the top half of his brain completely destroyed.
And how hard is the plastic replacement.
@JoeMazzolaTheFirstPersonCook
April 26, 2024 at 9:28 am
I’ve wanted to ask the 15:15 question for tgat, autism and depression for a while. Somebody hit me up when they can cut those parts of me out 😅
@rynic
April 26, 2024 at 1:28 pm
Maybe change the thumbnail?
@milktruckdriver
April 26, 2024 at 6:28 pm
16:45 ahem, Neuralink patient playing Civilization all night disagrees!
@MortalVildhjart
April 26, 2024 at 7:57 pm
its so weird to me that we figured out how to use Gamma Rays to make perfectly placed miniature procedures inside of our Bodies, but can’t be nice to eachother on a greater spectrum.
@danmarvin8714
April 26, 2024 at 8:42 pm
Harder than rocket science because of the number of connections between neurons in the brain?…. what an ignorant egotistical answer. It’s like saying that rocket science is harder because of the number of molecules reacting per second to generate the thrust. it’s an impressive stat, and introduce challenges, but in no way is it a good way to answer that question. Can’t afford any more credibility to this guy and moving on
@nadinekore6308
April 27, 2024 at 4:19 am
I think I want my Son to become a Neuroscientist.
@hrwstudio4104
April 27, 2024 at 7:24 am
He looks like Tom Hardy
@hotsaucebeliever
April 27, 2024 at 9:47 am
Asking a neurosurgeon if some other job is harder than theirs and expecting any other answer than no is hilarious. Neurosurgeons are famous for having a God complex like its part of their oath or something. But maybe they need to it to do the difficult things they do
@Robynhoodlum
April 27, 2024 at 1:22 pm
OMG! This explains why I don’t get migraines while I’m stressed but just after! After every finals period I would get migraines!😅
@jakobullmann7586
April 27, 2024 at 2:49 pm
I don’t know how hard neurosurgery is, but 1:25 definitely was an incredibly stupid answer.
@yukikitsune7366
April 27, 2024 at 3:01 pm
I would absolutely not suggest a gamer play Mario 64 for brain surgery. Gamer rage would not end well with a knife in their brain.
@NevTheDeranged
April 27, 2024 at 3:40 pm
Another great episode. I imagine it’s not easy to find experts who are both fully qualified in their field, and charismatic enough to do well on camera. We appreciate all the effort the Wired team goes to making such a huge variety of interesting topics accessible!
@MaritesGuillena
April 27, 2024 at 7:34 pm
Is it true the brain it’s floating in water. I was confused
@KimJongPhil
April 27, 2024 at 8:05 pm
4:07 i think they meant if the SURGEON has to sneeze… i dont imagine its common knowledge to know your brain swells a bit momentarily when u sneeze to have prompted that question(anyone who knows that likely knew more and hance didnt need to ask) i, for example, had no idea ur brain swells when u sneeze(coughing too? Coughing makes migraines worse for me at least so i wonder…) i just assumed OP asked abt the surgeon and was very confuzed by your answer…. you drill a dime sized hoel in u lr head pre surgery to help with sneezing? Im sorry what? XD took my a solid 2 minutes to realize doc meant the patient sneezing xD
@HenryJasonVarga
April 28, 2024 at 5:39 am
He didn’t even have time to change clothes
@HarmonyEdge
April 28, 2024 at 6:18 am
He looks like a drunk Dr Mike…
@phrogcasey
April 28, 2024 at 11:58 am
Due to my epilepsy i had the option to try out a (at the time) new medication to control the amount of seizures, or essentially have a lobotomy, my seizures are located in my left frontal lobe all throughout, they told me that having the surgery would’ve been quite high risk and possibly leave me unable to do most things i can now
@RubyCheetahCub
April 28, 2024 at 12:52 pm
I find it astounding that a simple unintended yet harmless side effect led to a whole treatment for something else. Absolutely wild.
@ManyaSoboleva
April 28, 2024 at 4:47 pm
Aerospace Engineering major here! There’s a reason I didn’t go into medical school. Brain surgery, I’d assume, requires a level of technical precision, detail, and knowledge that “rocket science” doesn’t encompass.
@MacLevistein
April 28, 2024 at 7:56 pm
World War 2 joke @2:04
@beaker8111
April 28, 2024 at 8:44 pm
I used to respect neuro surgeons. Then Ben Carsen came along… now I’m terrified of ever needing one.
@Liveloudexplore
April 28, 2024 at 9:18 pm
Oh wow never knew that about brain surgery. That’s pretty interesting.
@fornello123
April 28, 2024 at 10:29 pm
15:03 blood cells?? I assume you mean blood vessels 😅
@calebj1442
April 28, 2024 at 10:31 pm
This is the most pro-lobotomy take I’ve ever seen someone in neuroscience have 0_0
@anonymousanonymous924
April 28, 2024 at 11:59 pm
Had a brain tumor. Had an awesome doctor to remove it. I live with seizures though as a permanent reminder of the tumor. It wasn’t the doctors fault. Trust me I’ve thought it over thoroughly.
@TravanRed
April 29, 2024 at 5:45 am
5:28
The “i mea- dear lord! really ?”
Had me worried too
@ododa763
April 29, 2024 at 6:08 am
bro I did not expect rockcock to show up in this video wtf lmao
@hiimpercy
April 29, 2024 at 10:06 am
Man I’m sure I’m not the only one, but *friable. Not fryable. Ew.
@Amradye
April 29, 2024 at 10:10 am
10:50 in the vid excited me so much. I’m so happy to hear that we’re making so many awesome discoveries. 🎉
@manta894
April 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Boy does he have a god complex😂😂
@NatalieHarrisonLim
April 30, 2024 at 12:02 am
I would wanna play Tetris if I was on the operating table. I used to play competitively and I think it would be funny to see a photo of me having my brain operated on and I’m just playing Tetris
@paolobalbontin498
April 30, 2024 at 1:09 am
*lobotomy is a thing* this guy: but look at the bright side 😀
@jacobsnodgrass1888
April 30, 2024 at 1:11 am
I like how lobotomies are favored over deep brain stimulation in Nobel Prize smh
@Eris_Strife
April 30, 2024 at 1:17 am
As a rocket surgeon, I’m offended…
@hehedgehohog
April 30, 2024 at 12:23 pm
Eating while watching this video was a bad idea
@dustinbragg1921
April 30, 2024 at 12:58 pm
Autistic person here, are there any special considerations that broadly apply across various kinds of neurodivergent brains (autism, ADD/HD, dyslexia, synesthesia, etc…) that normally don’t in procedures on neurotypical brains? If so what are some of the neatest or most alarming ones you’re familiar with?
@kyrareneeLOA
April 30, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Instead of a lobotomy if they could have done an amygdalectomy (right side) all symptoms would have gone away. That is our intense irrational recurring fear center of our brain that blocks reason and decisions.. and those that went through extreme trauma could greatly benefit. Like CPTSD survivors.
@Maatkara1000
April 30, 2024 at 6:56 pm
Yeah, I don’t think removing the fear center would go very well for so many people with psychiatric conditions…
@kyrareneeLOA
April 30, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Instead of a lobotomy if they could have done an amygdalectomy (right side) all symptoms would have gone away. That is our intense irrational recurring fear center of our brain that blocks reason and decisions.. and those that went through extreme trauma could greatly benefit. Like high risk PTSD survivors, or those with extreme mental illness.
@ARM0RP0WER
April 30, 2024 at 1:55 pm
Not gonna lie i might legit want to just die then be awake while getting my brain fixed even if it doesnt hurt i cant imagine not feeling it somehow and ya no just no
@Gytax0
April 30, 2024 at 2:35 pm
‘blood cells begin to relax’ – sorry wtf does that even mean?
@rivanrn9079
May 1, 2024 at 12:42 am
How it’s harder if you do it with a “brute force” to know if it safe to go forward and you never give a guarantee or even 90 percent chance of success) our rockets with same ways will never even take off)
@henrique88t
May 1, 2024 at 7:03 am
This video is being much more uncomfortable than i thought it would be
@scotmcpherson
May 1, 2024 at 9:51 am
Is your own body considered sterile?!? I would thing it’s more like you own body won’t have foreign agents, but is that the same thing as sterile?
@FLuluMist
May 1, 2024 at 1:55 pm
Watching this after starting Baldur’s gate 3, don’t mind me
@sashariaboshapka8706
May 1, 2024 at 2:57 pm
Can you expand on the topic of neural interfaces? you said that it’s gonna take decades upon decades till such things are possible, but if we look at what progres do we have now, neurolink managed to make a chimp play a game via such a thing, as far as I understand by learning how his brain activity looks when he wants to move platform either left or right, how difficult it would be to calibrate a similar interface so it knows what word I think about for example
@NightridingDoom
May 1, 2024 at 3:01 pm
yhea but in case of headaches, where are the receptors that cause the headaches?
@jonash6070
May 1, 2024 at 8:57 pm
Speaking of migraines, I wish those videos would have a black background instead of white, it’s hard to watch this as a migraine sufferer.
@LorenaDyck
May 1, 2024 at 9:12 pm
This guys lips are the exact shape of the actor in once upon a time
@quantumfluffyflapjack
May 1, 2024 at 10:17 pm
I’m glad there are people like Brian out there but this was absolutely the wrong thing to watch before bed! Total horror show going on up there.
@plushieangela
May 2, 2024 at 9:27 am
I’ve had moles burnt off my nose (done by a specialising doctor) it smelt like sticky roast pork.
@robertairvin2310
May 2, 2024 at 11:36 am
Nope, the lobotomy was horrific and based on the results of one chimpanzee and doctors claiming it worked wonders just because they didn’t want any of their decisions to be wrong. Just because it got a Nobel prize doesn’t mean it was good, and there are plenty of other ways we know about a biological basis of psychiatric illness. At least in my education, we use the lobotomy as a warning, and I don’t trust the education of anyone who thinks it was a good thing
@Ilkanar
May 2, 2024 at 12:19 pm
i bet last one is gonna age rly fast
@Shade01982
May 2, 2024 at 12:20 pm
Never thought I’d hear ‘therapeutic’ and ‘radiation’ in the same sentence…
Also… STOP…EDITING…LIKE…THIS…
@WarrenPeace158
May 2, 2024 at 12:48 pm
I thought that was Steve Guttenberg
@scottrichards3587
May 2, 2024 at 12:59 pm
If I ever need brain surgery I hope my surgeon as good enough eye hand coordination to properly shave himself😮
@luisvelasquezjr
May 2, 2024 at 1:22 pm
The smell he us talking about is the first thing I noticed when I started working as a circulator nurse. Yeah that smell is very particular
@Isusia
May 2, 2024 at 6:34 pm
3:42
More interesting what if a neurosurgeon need to sneeze? Do they stop operation and doctor leave a room before sneeze to prevent contamination? 🤔
@THEREALBLU13
May 2, 2024 at 9:13 pm
There is a certain level of irony to my brain learning about this
@TheRedLipstickMJ
May 2, 2024 at 9:39 pm
This is real life Derek Sheperd
@LordVandor1
May 2, 2024 at 10:17 pm
Well this will be useful support if I ever find myself doing brain surgery
@zombieblaster5754
May 3, 2024 at 2:52 am
“it will stimulate the pain receptors” so what pain receptors if the brain has none? that was a horrible answer.
@SirsasthNigam.
May 3, 2024 at 4:34 am
I am Doctor David Doctor
@sareenfatima6114
May 3, 2024 at 5:04 am
Is it just me or does the respected surgeon resemble Tom Hiddleston somewhat? especially when he frowns.
@aquibmohd
May 3, 2024 at 12:37 pm
15:03 how does blood cells constrict or relax ?? What ?
@bradbradford8576
May 3, 2024 at 2:22 pm
The answer to the thumbnail question is “the blood vessels relax and that stimulates the pain receptors”
…what pain receptors? Did you even read the question?
@Giraffinator
May 3, 2024 at 4:11 pm
I wonder if he lucky brain surgery underwear
@pamelajaye
May 3, 2024 at 6:26 pm
Stimulates the pain receptors
You just said there weren’t any.
It’s not just you – I have also heard in many places that there are not any
Did you leave out an adjective somewhere? Because I don’t feel the question was completely answered and I’m still confused. And my sinus headaches they hurt a lot
@nemo-x
May 3, 2024 at 6:59 pm
1:40 Yeah brain surgery is harder. But he is an idiot for saying that. There are 60 trillion connections in the brain. There are 2 hexillion stars estimated.
60 000 000 000 000 vs
2 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
And the connections between neurons have nothing to do with brain surgery, nor the amount of stars with rocket science.
@evandarling699
May 3, 2024 at 11:40 pm
As a person who gets migraines, I didn’t understand the answer. In the beginning of the video he says the brain has no pain receptors. In the migraine question he says the relaxation of the blood cells cause the pain receptors to transmit pain…not following it! As the person asking the question says, it feels like an axe in the middle of the brain.
@camilascatonebedin3002
May 4, 2024 at 12:52 am
I find this video and the information in it SO fascinating, but I have to stop middway because it is making me feel queasy and making my breath get weird 😅 I am a bit impressionable
@camilascatonebedin3002
May 4, 2024 at 12:58 am
Sometimes the surgical procedure he describes is so fascinating and unthinkable to a person not in the field that I end up suddenly laughing
@kittyjuneo2218
May 4, 2024 at 1:06 am
10:20 If this was an average person and not a neurosurgeon saying this procedure is truly done, I wouldn’t believe it.
@FoodNerds
May 4, 2024 at 1:17 am
My guy used to be an aerospace engineer aka rocket scientist and he says that all that math is a waste because they only use 3 equations and they are all algebraic. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@TimM-kz1vl
May 4, 2024 at 2:32 am
Engineers get another chance, brain surgeons don’t.
@clperez3
May 4, 2024 at 2:36 am
WOW, this guy is sharp! Well spoken, bravo!
@Craigeek
May 4, 2024 at 2:41 am
I want a brain implant that artificially inserts augmented reality into my perceived vision. No glasses or contacts required. It happens all in the brain.
@segaiuolo
May 4, 2024 at 3:23 am
(patient plays guitar during brain surgery)
“wow… that was an overwhelming piece of flamenco”
“thanks. It was the first time I played guitar”
@angelalicea7871
May 4, 2024 at 6:19 am
I hate doctors like him. The answer is no. The brain has no pain receptors. Explain why!!!!!!!! You went to all that school to not tell us. He was also asked about Surgeons sneezing in the OR, and he replied with if the patient was going to sneeze …..
@31redorange08
May 4, 2024 at 9:40 am
He didn’t answer the migraine question properly.
@ArveEriksson
May 4, 2024 at 1:53 pm
TL;DR – “I highly recommend keeping your thalamus.”
Heh! Oh, internet… Noted. Will try not to lose it.
@Psyco913
May 4, 2024 at 1:55 pm
“Even the best simulation technology isn’t the same as the operating room itself.”
Clearly this guy has never played Surgeon Simulator.
@jarnMod
May 4, 2024 at 4:37 pm
Well, I guess mathematics is the most difficult subject in the universe then, because there’re more numbers than all of our braincells combined
@Feimicha
May 4, 2024 at 5:23 pm
Probably a question for a psychologist (I’m not asking my therapist), but would deep brain stimulation have the same effects on someone with PTSD? As far as I know, the immediate recall isn’t something I’d imagine happening if the brain sort of “blocks out” traumatic memories as a defense response. (For context, I am someone who is eligible for a PTSD diagnosis, but my therapist insists that I have to be an adult to be officially diagnosed)
Edit: The ADHD questioner is me
@carolynv8979
May 4, 2024 at 6:23 pm
This guy is seriously… defending lobotomy. Wtf
@benjaminmcelwain162
May 4, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Is this Andy Sambergs cousin?
@samedipek3696
May 4, 2024 at 9:09 pm
I did not think i would see such a interesting question in a video.
@bicivelo
May 4, 2024 at 9:16 pm
He made it sound like lobotomy were a good thing. He even said a Nobel prize was awarded to that. And truth, it was a medieval method of pacifying people.
@random832
May 4, 2024 at 10:22 pm
the answer of how to fill the hole only really answers the hole in the skull itself, how do you make up the volume if a significant amount of brain tissue had to be removed? just saline?
@Yes-nf4jc
May 4, 2024 at 11:04 pm
He didn’t explain what he would do if someone was about to sneeze T-T
@movingforwardLDTH
May 4, 2024 at 11:23 pm
When I was in my mid twenties, I was diagnosed with a micro-adenoma of the pituitary gland. My regular doctor told me that a neurosurgeon would have to go in through the roof of my mouth to remove it. Needless to say, I was more than a bit freaked out during the 3 weeks it took me to get to in to see the neurosurgeon.
The neurosurgeon took one look at my scans, shook his head, tossed the scans down on his desk and said, “You don’t need surgery, you need to take some medication to get rid of it” and proceeded to write the Rx for me.
Thank goodness that neurosurgeon had a sense of ethics, because he could have easily taken my (& my insurance company’s) money and I never would have known the truth.
No, I never went back to that Primary Care physician.
@GIRGHGH
May 5, 2024 at 12:16 am
Why was the thumbnail question answer so short? I feel like I didn’t learn anything
@thunderatigervideo
May 5, 2024 at 12:25 am
I had a student once who was out skateboarding and got into a really bad wreck. Hit his head, lots of swelling, and part of his skull was placed in his abdomen while they waited for the brain swelling to go down. It was scary at the time but also weirdly fascinating to learn about what could and couldn’t be done around the brain. He made a full recovery, by the way.
@tbcfrankee
May 5, 2024 at 12:46 am
I’ll never forget going to a neurosurgery conference as a medical student. There was a training and we went into a lab room with like 15 heads on top of each table. I asked the neurosurgeons how they made such realistic head models. They laughed at me and started sawing.
@ChantelStays
May 5, 2024 at 1:31 am
A disservice to migraine sufferers
@thejuggernautofspades9453
May 5, 2024 at 5:56 am
The brain is a wonderful thing. it’s too bad it’s encased in an annoying bone container
@karenfromfinasse8430
May 5, 2024 at 8:19 am
Idk why I watched this, now I’m convinced I have a brain tumor
@motomono
May 5, 2024 at 4:34 pm
You just said that the brain has no pain receptors. Then you said that in migraine when the blood cells are relaxed it stimulates the pain receptors.
I’m a bit lost here. How can something which not exist be stimulated and cause the pain?
@rvalent9366
May 5, 2024 at 5:02 pm
14:50 for the question in the thumbnail
@matthias2622
May 5, 2024 at 5:31 pm
Obviously, rocket science is much more complicated with all the math and physics. The surgery itself is just crafting a bit inside the brain. It’s the brain itself that is complicated.
@lapetitecuillereetlepaindo3005
May 5, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Man, Steve Guttenberg looks good.
@sarahnunez318
May 5, 2024 at 8:12 pm
I’m convinced Wired just hunts down the best looking professionals they can find bc why are the men here always such a HIT
@AleASanti-mw5wv
May 5, 2024 at 11:19 pm
Could dystonia be fixed with neurosurgery? mine affects the hand for two decades now…
@patusoro4781
May 5, 2024 at 11:28 pm
Answer to the thumbnail @15:00
… . problem is, he says the brain DOES have pain receptors? Now I’m more confused than when I started.
@Unethical.Dodgson
May 6, 2024 at 12:04 am
People: “You are awake for brain surgery”
Me: “I’ll live with the tumour.”
People: “No. You’ll die with the tumour.”
Me: “Fair enough. I’ll die with the tumour.”
@Suddenly-Eggs
May 6, 2024 at 12:35 am
Why the v neck?
@lucasr8276
May 6, 2024 at 5:04 am
It’s a bit naive to think lobotomy/leucotomy was used just as a treatment for psychiatric disease. Egas Moniz and others performed it in homosexuals and misfits just because they understood their condition as a “social disease”. Yes, it helped us understand psycology as we do today, but just because they did experiments on the most vulnerable population.
@abdsalamelkhamlichi6677
May 6, 2024 at 5:11 am
This is a common misconception. The number of stars in the universe is bigger in the univers than the number of synaptic connection in the human brain.
@greenhowie
May 6, 2024 at 6:34 am
Oof, that was a weirdly strong defence of lobotomies there. It’s okay to admit that modern medical science is based on morally reprehensible experiments in the past – it’s a bit like how NASA wouldn’t have made such great technological leaps without German scientists who were granted amnesty. We don’t like it but we have to make do with what we have now.
@agabe_8989
May 6, 2024 at 7:22 am
1:36
That is probably the single most ridiculous answer to a question i have ever heard.
@alex-rw2yg
May 6, 2024 at 4:02 pm
Are you a neurosurgeon or astronomer?
@andyollom3831
May 6, 2024 at 9:03 am
Sick, with a headache that gets worse when I cough: “Then we get lunch.” That hurt, and was hilarious.
@TheAlethian
May 6, 2024 at 11:34 am
itd be stupid that the only thing i’d be good at enough for brain surgery is fuckin rocket league lmfao
@TheAlethian
May 6, 2024 at 11:34 am
This isn’t Rocket Surgery
@haengihorsetheonewhocancoo8855
May 6, 2024 at 12:11 pm
I like this mans face
@Vertutame
May 6, 2024 at 12:42 pm
“so… Payday is Brain surgery simulator in some way…”
Someone on twitter, probably.
@Vertutame
May 6, 2024 at 12:52 pm
ADHD can be super power if you use it the right way
@Erabior_
May 6, 2024 at 2:03 pm
We have estimated somewhere near 100 Billion stars in the Milky Way. Lowest estimates indicate there an additional 200 Billion galaxys in the known universe. That would mean there may be at least 2×10^22 stars in the known universe or to put it plainly, twenty thousand-billion-billion stars. Astrophysics is harder.
@jasper265
May 6, 2024 at 2:41 pm
So, considering that there are also more grains of sand than there are stars, walking on sand must be harder than rocket science as well…
@Blankult
May 6, 2024 at 4:58 pm
11:32 Found the simpleflips fan
@el6605
May 6, 2024 at 9:48 pm
I still don’t understand the headache part 😢
@walksinrain
May 7, 2024 at 6:01 am
Man, everything was going so well. Then this man pulls out a stars and stripes surgical cap? Nah, I’m out 😆
@fadingbeleifs
May 7, 2024 at 6:41 am
What about “Rocket Surgery”?
@nadiamagdalena2712
May 7, 2024 at 10:55 am
I always wondered all this well after brain surgery but i was asleep 🙂
@matthewscott7198
May 7, 2024 at 11:46 am
It’s so strange to hear such knowledge and brilliance delivered with an accent that I associate with comic stereotypes.
“EYYY! I’M TREPANNIN’ HERE!!”
@muddyarsonist7090
May 7, 2024 at 11:48 am
this man just said that 100 billion is more then every star in the universe……um no, also the universe may actually be infinite, so super wrong their buddy, but keep that energy
@GlobalOutcast
May 7, 2024 at 2:29 pm
I always been told you gotta be awake for brain surgery to make sure they dont damage your brain/make you a vegetable
@malanamarie5206
May 7, 2024 at 5:01 pm
How did my phone know that I have a migraine 🧍🏻♀️
@princecuddle
May 7, 2024 at 9:25 pm
11:30 im kinda interested in this with assisted devices to expand and improve a human memory. The biggest draw back for us humans is the ability to remember things in perfect detail. If we could do such a feat then we could be making amazing improvements in rnd
@melleydee
May 7, 2024 at 9:39 pm
his hands literally look so clean
@jeremypreston5009
May 7, 2024 at 10:30 pm
Apparently i need a daniectomy to not get the Jurassic Park theme song stuck in my head
@BearBeatzu
May 7, 2024 at 10:55 pm
I have no interest in anything medical but I’m watching this anyway.
@Wanttofanta
May 7, 2024 at 11:02 pm
Had to stop at the “100 billion stars on the universe” answer. I’m sorry man, there’s even more galaxies than that, and each galaxy has, at the very minimum, billions of stars. What I do agree with is the risk involved. Brain surgery can kill. Sending a rocket into space just costs money (obviously simplifying things here)
@WingsOfOuroboros
May 8, 2024 at 12:09 am
What is wrong with the chapters on this video? Why would you let them auto-generate like that?
@clutch2315
May 8, 2024 at 12:53 am
14:50 is when the migraine question starts
@strogonoffcore
May 8, 2024 at 1:37 am
4:08 I was in a car crash once and my brain swelled a lot, I almost had to have a drain performed, but it was not needed. I don’t know the size it would have been tho, and given how I recovered pretty well even without the drain, I don’t think it would have to be permanent
@MegaKellyschannel
May 8, 2024 at 6:02 am
Oh cool. Thanks. Now the jurassic park theme song is stuck in my head too 🦕🦖 way to share the pain 😅
@saltiestsiren
May 8, 2024 at 12:07 pm
5:26 Dude just explained a lobotomy and there’s a reason we stopped doing those 😂
@The_Magic_System
May 8, 2024 at 12:17 pm
As someone with both OCD and depression I find it hilarious that they’re both caused by my brain being electric in the wrong font lol
@kevincaruthers5412
May 8, 2024 at 12:28 pm
Just a wild guess, but I would assume it is because you have more than just your brain in your head.
🙂
@anxia-tea5846
May 8, 2024 at 12:35 pm
how do you get *into* the brain without hurting any neurons?
@thylange
May 8, 2024 at 2:33 pm
I dont understand where the pain receptors are located. He mentioned blood vessels expanding and then contracting. Are the pain receptors located in the blood vessels?
@DavidCurryFilms
May 8, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Cerebral Gortex 🤣
@johnosbornmusic
May 8, 2024 at 5:49 pm
I think that star comment might be wrong
@limalicious
May 8, 2024 at 8:08 pm
I want to know why impending rain gives me migraines. Because my migraine moved into cluster headache territory today, making my eye feel like it was being surrounded completely around the back and stabbed by dozens of needles. x_o
@koala7254
May 8, 2024 at 8:33 pm
6:26 da horror. right there.
@koala7254
May 8, 2024 at 8:41 pm
6:59 what is “a psychiatric disease” ???
stay with surgery. stop talking about things you don’t understand.
lobotomy. for christs sake.
@koala7254
May 8, 2024 at 8:55 pm
13:21 again. stay out of psychiatry. u r not trained.
@iankay4219
May 8, 2024 at 10:00 pm
I’d argue the part of the brain that grabs attention is the posterior parietal cortex, not the thalamus 🫤
@k3tchup687
May 8, 2024 at 10:29 pm
1:20 as an aspiring aerospace engineer, i agree
@Ternalin
May 9, 2024 at 2:50 am
Will there ever be a cure for Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism… asking for myself.
@user-ft3fj3kh8r
May 9, 2024 at 4:04 am
14:10…
“dude have’nt you played FNAF 4, you dont let robots near people’s brains, they’re gonna bite a kids frontal off.”😔🤚
@Purrfect_Werecat
May 9, 2024 at 10:12 am
“touching a healthy brain” having no real affect is interesting knowledge for brain surgeons to know. how’d they test that i wonder.
@friedec3622
May 9, 2024 at 11:49 am
Brain operation.
Doctor: Did you feel pain?
Patient: No, it’s feel a bit windy.
@foobar1735
May 9, 2024 at 1:15 pm
dude completely contradicts himself about migraines – “there’s no pain receptors” becomes “the vasculature stimulates the pain receptors”… just goes to show that these people have no idea what migraines are or what to do about them…
@springbloom5940
May 9, 2024 at 3:32 pm
The Milky Way alone has more than 100 billion stars. Hes no rocket surgeon.
@RealCadde
May 9, 2024 at 5:05 pm
“What is harder, rocket science or brain surgery”
-Hurr durr number of neurons exceeds the number of stars in the unvers
That’s the most stupid answer i could possibly imagine to such a question.
The real answer is that it really depends. If you are making solid rocket boosters, it’s pretty much as easy as launching hobby rockets at a very grand scale. Most people can do it.
If however you are making cutting edge rocket engines using fuels and materials never tried before, you simply cannot do it all on your own. You need a large team of rocket engineers, physicists, material science professors, systems engineers, electrical engineers and overall many different experts in many different fields. Not to mention people capable of working with and handling exotic liquids/gases and a substantial infrastructure to support it all.
In comparison, as a brain surgeon, you are working on the same organ as everyone before you. What makes it hard is all the literature you have to go through and be able to recite in your sleep.
As with any medical doctors degree, there’s a whole lot of “if X then Y” scenarios you must know by heart. And as a surgeon you need a steady hand and a flatline mental and body state to operate.
One could compare it to a Formula One driver who has to answer “who wants to be a millionaire” questions while staying ahead of the pack in racing.
In any case, one is about designing mechanical systems that are dead/offline and the other is about working on dynamic biological systems which are very much alive.
One can make a mistake early on and not catch it, leading to the death of a whole crew.
The other are generally not allowed to make mistakes ever, and could easily lead to the death or at least vegetable state of the patient. And you can’t really have a team of surgeons all working on the patient at the same time and predicting or simulating what effects a certain action will have, they just have to go by experience and the literature on the subject.
They are both highly qualified and impressively difficult professions. Neither is easier or harder than the other, they are just different.
@avd-wd9581
May 9, 2024 at 8:13 pm
@6:25
If I didn’t know that guy was a doctor/scientist, I would’ve assumed he was one of the psychiatric patients (probably a serial killer).
@itsRobbie_
May 10, 2024 at 3:45 am
The brain is so cool. Great speaker too, very informative. Being a brain surgeon would be cool but I cannot handle blood and seeing things that are inside the body lol
@MichaelCharlesAubrey-jv8kj
May 10, 2024 at 4:07 am
The migraine question is answered at 14:53
@serhiizinkivskyi3464
May 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm
How to fight migraines?
@u12uNiiGuNx
May 10, 2024 at 7:20 pm
The brain surgery and rocket science question is easy. Rocket science is formulaic, we know the math and physics for how it works. The tricky bit is the engineering of materials and components to get the desired results in a cost effective manner. If money and resources was no issue we could colonise the solar system.
Relatively speaking we still know hardly anything about the brain
@ethanstoltzman8421
May 10, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Lol I’m watching YouTube with a concussion
@scottwilliams846
May 10, 2024 at 11:57 pm
Ok. Now I have a question. Now that I have been told the procedure for accessing the pituitary gland, is it possible to stimulate it and give a patient gigantism? Could this help be a cure for dwarfism?
@sammiejdesuperman1
May 11, 2024 at 4:03 am
No as much Stars as in our Galaxy.
@peaveyst7
May 11, 2024 at 4:38 am
kinda funny if you think about this. you sit in front of your pc and your brain gets explained by a professional how it works. yet our brain doesnt know exactly how it works.
@notquiteordinary
May 11, 2024 at 7:07 am
He didn’t even answer the migraine question
@raghavarora1106
May 13, 2024 at 12:14 am
He answered it perfectly
@notquiteordinary
May 13, 2024 at 1:12 pm
@@raghavarora1106 he didn’t specify if the pain was caused by the receptors in the blood vessels or in the brain.
The answer he gives implies it’s the blood vessels that cause the pain, so are there no pain receptors in the brain but there are on the vessels within it?
The answer doesn’t satisfy the question. He merely explained the mechanism of action
@Velo-vl3qj
May 11, 2024 at 8:00 am
should not have started watching while eating
@YouTube_user3333
May 11, 2024 at 8:31 am
I like how, when talking about barbarian tortuous treatments, that had zero positive outcomes, you actually seemed to try to defend it. Show me one case where a frontal lobotomy actually worked.
@seeker816
May 11, 2024 at 2:36 pm
Why stupid video editing
@iGlimmyr
May 11, 2024 at 7:20 pm
hey dont knock gamers. We have a something called “E sports” which is competitive gaming!
@verity3616
May 11, 2024 at 8:11 pm
His answer at 15:14 doesn’t make sense. What does he mean blood CELLS constrict? Isn’t it blood *vessels* that constrict and relax in headache? Isn’t the whole point of migraine that it is a VACULAR headache?
@raghavarora1106
May 13, 2024 at 12:13 am
Man he says totally right, maybe you are not a biology major , but don’t say like this is doesn’t make sense , we have to study for years to be a neurosurgeon
@verity3616
May 13, 2024 at 2:49 am
@@raghavarora1106 Your comment is completely incoherent. Are you a bot?
I don’t care how long he or anyone studied to become a neurosurgeon. What does it mean to say blood *cells* are constricting in this context? Migraines are not the result of blood clots. This isn’t a stroke. White blood cells, red blood cells, and/or platelets are ‘constricting’ to cause migraine? That sounds both incoherent and inaccurate.
Migraines can involve vascular inflammation and activation of the nerves. But that is NOT the content of the blood. I don’t understand what he meant here and if you do, then explain it, don’t just mock my comment.
@Raven17729
May 11, 2024 at 10:13 pm
4:41
I had no idea 3d printing could be used in medical settings. That’s so cool!
@darayoo5677
May 11, 2024 at 11:19 pm
Do patients gag at the smell of their own brain or not? Why’s that?
@alex_davis_11
May 12, 2024 at 7:43 am
2:36 Inconveniently? It’s pretty convenient to have your brain protected like that 😅
@essentia.innominata
May 12, 2024 at 2:36 pm
This on 1:47 cannot be true. That’s a joke, right? Or, actually, you have someone very experienced accompanying you. I must be missing some elements of logic here…
@BarthiArgento
May 12, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Ahh this bright background destroys my melatonin
@raghavarora1106
May 13, 2024 at 12:11 am
Lol
@mxandrew
May 12, 2024 at 9:55 pm
not the lobotomy ruining the nobel prize for all of neurosurgery forever
@Notalizardspy
May 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Rick Grimes?
@sose6255
May 13, 2024 at 7:45 am
The Doctor gave a wrong statement when he said the brain has more neurons than stars in the universe. 100 Billion stars are just within our own galaxy. there are 100-200 billion galaxies estimated within the observable universe, each galaxy containing hundrets of billions of stars. which means there are estimated to be 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe.
@cburn-YT
May 13, 2024 at 12:39 pm
so you have to be awake, they cook your brain, and they learn on the go, dude just let me die instead
@YuBeace
May 13, 2024 at 4:33 pm
I thought he’d say “Rocket Science is harder because I didn’t study for that one.” That’s what my answer would be, at least. Always acknowledge your bias!
@YuBeace
May 13, 2024 at 4:50 pm
WAIT WAIT WAIT HOLD UP. You got pacemakers for OCD???
@chrisamon5762
May 13, 2024 at 5:19 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone put the words, “video game athlete” together in a sentence!!! Lmao!!! That’s just funny sounding!!!
@arsonne
May 13, 2024 at 5:42 pm
Bro been waiting for years to drop the line about brain surgery being harder than rocket science. That or he tells everyone he meets.
@notNajimi
May 13, 2024 at 5:50 pm
I had a teacher in middle school whose husband had a brain tumor, she some of the details with the class and mentioned the suction thing. I believe the tumor was benign and luckily not in too sensitive of an area, but because of where it was they basically had to go in through the side of his face. I am likely misremembering that here but it’ll stick with me for a long time anyway
@Ubernewb111
May 13, 2024 at 5:50 pm
I’d never want to be a brain surgeons first patient
@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890
May 13, 2024 at 9:55 pm
2:34 inconveniently? Would you rather have just a layer of skin protecting your brain 😭?
@tvviewer4500
May 13, 2024 at 9:56 pm
Because the migraines aren’t in your brain
@SeraphimKnight
May 13, 2024 at 10:23 pm
imagine someone break a speerun wr while under brain surgery 😂 no one would believe them
@ztowanda
May 14, 2024 at 4:34 am
I watched his whole thing for the migraine bit. That was one terrible answer. 😒
@jman1989
May 14, 2024 at 5:05 am
If my son is dying of brain cancer what do I do to help him?
@Vousie
May 14, 2024 at 6:53 am
I find it *disgusting* that he speaks about lobotomies as if it’s this important stepping stone to all these other things, without even mentioning the many patients who were essentially turned into vegetables by these surgeries. Like, sure, your patient is apparently no longer depressed but that’s just because they can no longer speak or think much… It’s like suggesting suicide as a solution. Can’t feel depressed if you’re dead.
Of course, I have heard it said that a large number of neurosurgeons are actually psychopaths, so perhaps this all makes sense…
@NemesorZahndrekh
May 14, 2024 at 9:03 am
Hmm, more connections than all the stars in the universe? I don’t think so…
100 billion stars in the Milky Way… but there are millions if not trillions of galaxies in the universe right?
He must’ve said universe when he meant galaxy.
@emilymaria9312
May 14, 2024 at 11:31 am
This guy creeps me out. Seems like the kind to end up on the news for unaliving his wife and kids.
@FarrakhanWolcott
May 14, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Lol rocket science is just math
@TE11500
May 14, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Cant wait to try this on grandma
@Dreamlink91
May 14, 2024 at 4:31 pm
All questions and answers are according to brain btw 😮😂
@marne-leerossouw5639
May 14, 2024 at 11:59 pm
I have a question. For people who have an attention deficit disorder, do the medications we take to treat that act on the thalamus and will the meds alter the thalamus if taken over long periods of time? Should we be concerned?
@gauravchauhan6655
May 15, 2024 at 8:21 am
Someone’s brain made this video to understand how it works. It’s amazing that my brain is learning about itself.
@LenaFerrari
May 15, 2024 at 9:48 am
Omg, as a med student, the smell of burning flesh is really something
@ShadowCammando24
May 15, 2024 at 11:11 am
I love these videos, very informative.
@TheStupidcomment
May 15, 2024 at 4:10 pm
My god the pop zooms make this unwatchable.
@Torguish
May 15, 2024 at 9:40 pm
“We learn on the job” is not what i was expecting IN BRAIN SURGERY.
@baonkang5990
May 15, 2024 at 10:46 pm
1:47
Right lemme just open up a tutorial.
@evelynlewis122
May 16, 2024 at 12:03 am
I’m sure that lobotomy does have an important place in the history of neurosurgery but man that’s a lot like saying the Stanford Prison Experiment has an important place in science. It does, but no participant benefited X(
@Yessica2002
May 16, 2024 at 12:47 am
15:00 for question in title about migraines, doesn’t even really answer it.
@vineeygamer
May 16, 2024 at 4:01 am
Looks like our doctor himself needs lasik surgery 😂
@oAshyBashyo
May 16, 2024 at 4:18 am
THIS GUY IS A FREAKING BRAIN surgeon! This guy is god tier
@cedertrees2425
May 16, 2024 at 4:35 am
There is not more neurons in the brain than stars in the universe, that’s a ridiculous claim.
There are 100 billion stars in our **galaxy** alone. Some galaxies can house up to trillions of stars (which is an order of magnitude larger than a billion)
If each neuron in the brain represented a single galaxy’s worth of stars, the universe would be a brain filled with 100 billion brains worth of neurons, and that’s a very conservative estimate that only accounts for the *observable* universe.
The number of stars in the galaxy or universe is also completely and utterly irrelevant to the practical applications of rocket science, by the way… Almost makes me concerned that he’s a neurosurgeon.
@hellokitty4me
May 16, 2024 at 4:38 am
So like silk tofu!?
@britney901
May 16, 2024 at 10:14 am
Who would win in a fight: Ang Lee or Bruce Lee?
@Maxim.Nazarenko
May 16, 2024 at 11:01 am
Thanks.
@user-ev4ew9my9b
May 16, 2024 at 2:51 pm
There’s not only 100 billion stars in the universe. I can tell you that there is more than just 100 billion stars in the milky way alone.
@taliagreen8020
May 16, 2024 at 4:06 pm
Not me being familiar with all the terms because of Grey’s Anatomy
@user-wg2eh3iy5r
May 17, 2024 at 1:38 am
Now I want to know how people using twitter can get back the brain cells they lost…
@mr.cauliflower3536
May 17, 2024 at 6:16 am
Now I imagine a stream “speedrunning SM64 while having a brain surgery”
@justingraves1291
May 17, 2024 at 11:51 am
video…game…athlete.. what a world we live in lmao
@CarlyRivers_91
May 17, 2024 at 3:45 pm
While I’m sure it might have it’s good will use, I personally don’t want to be around and or forced to have always online Bluetooth or Wi-Fi brain implants
@katefox7692
May 17, 2024 at 4:05 pm
I hope this accent never dies out, I love it
@xervislane770
May 17, 2024 at 4:32 pm
2024. here. Bluetooth stuff happened with Neuralink. Well, something to that effect.
@quite1enough
May 17, 2024 at 6:28 pm
14:50 migraine question
@masterchuck8772
May 17, 2024 at 7:01 pm
The way he talked about cooked human flesh… no wonder surgeons are right at the top of the list of professional psychopaths
@ILIK3HATERZ
May 17, 2024 at 9:39 pm
I could put these types of people out of business!
@Astraeus..
May 17, 2024 at 11:40 pm
So this just reinforces what I already thought, that if/when the time comes that we can fully control the electrical activity in a brain we’ll essentially control everything it can do. Theoretically there would be a day where a simple implant would let you have a perfect memory, or selectively forget things you don’t want to know, let us think faster, process faster, ignore or eliminate pain, induce pleasure, etc… It’s the biological CPU, and if you can control the CPU you can control everything.
@PowerScissor
May 18, 2024 at 4:45 am
How many zoom cuts are needed in the middle of every sentence?
All of them apparently.
@naimmohamad2152
May 18, 2024 at 4:58 am
I hear Meredith Gray’s “bur holes” every time I hear someone say bur holes lol
@bliss.9714
May 18, 2024 at 6:42 am
question in thumbnail is at 14:50
@pmangano
May 18, 2024 at 10:57 am
Ah… yes the smell of the electrocautery is unmistakable, and also i’ve never felt it anywhere else.
I mean… kinda… it sticks to your nose for a long time so you smell it everywhere after surgery but that’s not what i mean.
@oam8374
May 18, 2024 at 11:39 am
Man said nature put that brain in the skull smh🤦♂️🤦♂️
All that knowledge to be an athiest
@terobals
May 18, 2024 at 5:08 pm
Is he like the real life McDreamy?
@NexusSomnia
August 1, 2024 at 3:59 am
The characterization of the lobotomy as an “overall good” is uh
It’s something
@ephemerisone74
August 1, 2024 at 5:51 am
this guy would be a great super villain
@TRENKROM
August 1, 2024 at 6:55 am
Gamma knife cuts was the craziest thing Ive heard in a long time. Being able to cut the inside of something without cutting the outside through sounds like an oxymoron
@nannerz1994
August 1, 2024 at 10:19 am
“Did you mess up on my brain?”
“I don’t know play wonderwall let’s see”
@Lebrobro
August 1, 2024 at 7:50 pm
The Rocket Science/Brain Surgeon question answer was laughably false, the number of stars in the universe is nearly 100 billion times the number of neural connections, could potentially be more
@mollyfernlund8743
August 1, 2024 at 10:24 pm
This is awesome
@mollyfernlund8743
August 1, 2024 at 10:28 pm
How did the very first lobotomy go, just a really frustrated guy stab a pick into a guy’s eye and was like “wow, he is way more tolerable now…”?
@mollyfernlund8743
August 1, 2024 at 10:38 pm
15:13 wait, so are migraines at all similar to raynods in the sense pain comes when blood returns?
@pixxienix
August 1, 2024 at 11:21 pm
The migraines question is at 14:50
@tristantipton3641
August 2, 2024 at 12:55 am
The thought that I would be awake while someone is physically interacting with my brain is perhaps the most fear and anxiety inducing experience I can imagine. I would not be able to sit there and cooperate. Guess I’ll die if I ever need it.
@XxMidnightRain18xX
August 2, 2024 at 1:51 am
I want to see this guy explain chiari decompression and a c1 and c2 laminectomy
@dominicayazo561
August 2, 2024 at 5:34 am
1:18 “the brain has no pain receptors” 14:53 “no pain receptors”… Why do migraines hurt? 15:11 “stimulates the pain receptors” like what the actual f🤬??? Did I really watched the whole video for that answer???
@dominicayazo561
August 2, 2024 at 5:39 am
Great answer for something “harder than rocket science” 💆🏻♂️🚀
@snaggiz
August 2, 2024 at 6:38 am
I think some people may be disappointed with his answer to the last question, but the ability to use a computer to artificially influence neuroplasticity would have unbelievable implications for a wide range of uses. Keen to see where all that goes. I’ve already got a brain prosthetic in my pocket all day anyways so I’m not necessarily looking forward to having an Spotify app in my brain.
@Pattooters
August 2, 2024 at 9:47 am
1:38, there is 100-400billion stars estimated to be in our galaxy ALONE, in the OBSERVABLE universe it is estimated to be billion trillions of stars whereas the average adult brain only has approximately 60 trillion neuron connections…
@christinesloat
August 2, 2024 at 11:09 am
Perfect plastic replacement
Say that three times fast
@FaithConteh-pr2di
August 2, 2024 at 12:55 pm
What’s a dura?
@eggtortilla
August 2, 2024 at 4:12 pm
Rockcock64 lol
@JustaMuteCat
August 2, 2024 at 5:06 pm
The thing about recent WIRED videos is that they finally going out of their ways to get someone that can communicate their area of expertise properly in a way that is attractive to the public. Still, the pain receptors x brain question and answer wasn’t that clear, really wish Dr Kopell had elaborated more on that.
@NiaJustNia
August 2, 2024 at 8:57 pm
The blood flow being the issue makes a lot of sense to me, as my migraines are part of my Raynaud’s
@18emdy
August 2, 2024 at 10:51 pm
“Flesh Cooking”
Hannibal – “Hmmm Tasty”
@godrickstockwell1505
August 2, 2024 at 11:38 pm
I learned so much here. Thank you for the engaging and funny expert
@Michellejhhs13
August 2, 2024 at 11:41 pm
I had TMS therapy done for my depression and it help with my migraine 🎉great side effect
@Tito-sq1kb
August 3, 2024 at 5:26 pm
@1:37 there are trillions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of stars. Still, brain surgery is harder
@senpaimanda5173
August 3, 2024 at 5:41 pm
He really looks like mc. dreamy
@feynthefallen
August 3, 2024 at 7:05 pm
A neurosurgeon almost defending lobotomies is really hard to watch. Trepanations done ny witch doctors in the African outback are less barbaric and done with more skill and care than many, if not most, lobotomies were.
@LinguisticMirage
August 4, 2024 at 4:08 pm
This video made me very unconvertable 😔
@JackOfAllRAIDs
August 4, 2024 at 7:48 pm
I’m confused. There was talk about there being no pain receptors in the brain, but then the topic of migraines comes up and you answer with pain receptors. Are there pain receptors in the brain or not?
@Pumpkin_Adam
August 4, 2024 at 8:56 pm
4:24 oh yeah one of my friends has a hole in her skull. It’s so weird to touch it.
@rosieglows
August 5, 2024 at 12:34 am
Nah, when a dr says, do this, it’s safe and THOUSANDS of people suffer, it’s not ethical. That’s like saying Tuskegee was beneficial. They didn’t need to let thousands of black men, unknowingly and unwillingly die of syphilis, even though we have an effective treatment, just cos we want to observe it is disgusting. Lobotomies may have assisted in the understanding of mental illness, but he could’ve at least said, however, it wasn’t effective, it had no real benefit for individuals and therefore we should not be parading it as something it wasn’t.
@user-ox6nc6ly7f
August 5, 2024 at 4:34 am
2:00 how does it smell on beef? like or different than BBQ?
@i_like_lemons
August 5, 2024 at 6:51 am
Small nitpick, the amount of stars in the universe is estimated to be one septillion, which is one followed by 24 zeros according to NASA. So it is much much more than 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
@pspd-alitakhainurrofilah5452
August 5, 2024 at 12:17 pm
He is derek shaperd in real life… look at he’s hair ohh god
@meydintorki
August 5, 2024 at 12:51 pm
He misunderstood the sneeze question but great overall
@meltyberryashley
August 5, 2024 at 1:24 pm
8:30 So you’re saying that the pituitary gland is the brain’s clitoris?
@In_one_nose_out_the_other
August 5, 2024 at 6:58 pm
Free lazer gun lobotomy!
@ghost5631
August 5, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Murdered the first name
@toasty00000
August 5, 2024 at 9:36 pm
A brain surgeon would say it’s harder…
@arianaalioth
August 6, 2024 at 1:21 pm
I watched this to get the answer about migraines.
Still no answer. Its the only question he gave an incomplete halfassed answer. Sigh.
@jaxmanhattan8998
August 6, 2024 at 5:07 pm
15:06
*Blood vessels actually
@jaykay1223
August 6, 2024 at 7:02 pm
The doctors told me that aneurysms don’t cause anything until they break…
I had headaches, migraines, vertigo for years until I had surgery. Almost everything is gone now