Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology - Season 1
Season 1
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DatesJan 6, 2015 - Dec 21, 2015
Episodes
Season 1Episode 110 min
Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology
In this episode of Crash Course, Hank introduces you to the complex history and terminology of Anatomy & Physiology.
Jan 6, 2015
Season 1Episode 210 min
Tissues, Part 1
In this episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank gives you a brief history of histology and introduces you to the different types and functions of your body's tissues.
Jan 12, 2015
Season 1Episode 310 min
Tissues, Part 2 - Epithelial Tissue
Today on Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank breaks down the parts and functions of one of your body's unsung heroes: your epithelial tissue.
Jan 19, 2015
Season 1Episode 410 min
Tissues, Part 3 - Connective Tissues
On today's episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank continues our exploration of tissues, with an introduction to your connective tissues.
Jan 26, 2015
Season 1Episode 510 min
Tissues, Part 4 - Types of Connective Tissues
Today Hank wraps up our look at Connective Tissues with a discussion of its various types and a breakdown of what you can and can't easily break down. Also chicken.
Feb 2, 2015
Season 1Episode 610 min
The Integumentary System, Part 1 - Skin Deep
Anatomy & Physiology continues with a look at your biggest organ - your skin.
Feb 9, 2015
Season 1Episode 710 min
The Integumentary System, Part 2 - Skin Deeper
Today Hank wraps up this look at your integumentary system and all the hard work it does protecting you from and helping you interact with the world around you.
Feb 16, 2015
Season 1Episode 810 min
The Nervous System, Part 1
Today Hank kicks off our look around MISSION CONTROL: your nervous system.
Feb 23, 2015
Season 1Episode 910 min
The Nervous System, Part 2 - Action! Potential!
What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Today, Hank explains.
Mar 2, 2015
Season 1Episode 1010 min
The Nervous System, Part 3 - Synapses!
We continue our tour of the nervous system with a look at synapses and the crazy stuff cocaine does to your body.
Mar 10, 2015
Season 1Episode 1110 min
Central Nervous System
Today Hank talks about your central nervous system. In this episode we'll explore how your brain develops and how important location is for each of your brain's many functions.
Mar 23, 2015
Season 1Episode 1210 min
Peripheral Nervous System
It is now time to meet the system that helps your crazy brain stay in touch with the outside world. We follow up last week's tour of the central nervous system with a look at your peripheral nervous system, its afferent and efferent divisions, how it processes information, the reflex arc, and what your brain has to say about pain.
Mar 30, 2015
Season 1Episode 1310 min
Autonomic Nervous System
Hank takes you on a tour of your two-part autonomic nervous system. This episode explains how your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system work together as foils, balancing each other out. Their key anatomical differences - where nerve fibers originate and where their ganglia are located - drive their distinct anatomical functions, making your sympathetic nervous system the "fight or flight" while your parasympathetic nervous system is for "resting and digesting."
Apr 6, 2015
Season 1Episode 1410 min
Sympathetic Nervous System
Hank tries not to stress you out too much as he delves into the functions and terminology of your sympathetic nervous system.
Apr 13, 2015
Season 1Episode 1510 min
Parasympathetic Nervous System
This week we are looking at your parasympathetic division, which is the "resting and digesting" unit. Unfortunately, learning about this de-stressing division also involves a whole lot of memorization. Don't worry, though - we've got some mnemonic devices to help you out!
Apr 20, 2015
Season 1Episode 1610 min
Taste & Smell
Hank resists the urge to devour a slice of pizza so that he can walk you through the way we experience our major special senses. It all boils down to one thing: sensory cells translating chemical, electromagnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potentials that our nervous system can make sense of. Today we're focusing on smell (olfaction) and taste (gustation), which are chemical senses that call on chemoreceptors. As usual, we'll begin with a quick look at how these things can go wrong.
Apr 27, 2015
Season 1Episode 1710 min
Hearing & Balance
Crash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This mechanism not only helps you hear but also helps maintain your equilibrium.
May 4, 2015
Season 1Episode 1810 min
Vision
Next stop in our tour of your sensory systems? VISION. With a little help from an optical illusion, we take a look inside your eyes to try to figure out how your sense of vision works -- and how it can be tricked.
May 11, 2015
Season 1Episode 1910 min
The Skeletal System
Today Hank explains the skeletal system and why astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are out in space studying it. He talks about the anatomy of the skeletal system, including the flat, short, and irregular bones, and their individual arrangements of compact and spongy bone. He'll also cover the microanatomy of bones, particularly the osteons and their inner lamella. And finally he will introduce the process of bone remodeling, which is carried out by crews of osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts.
May 18, 2015
Season 1Episode 2010 min
Joints
We continue our look at your bones and skeletal system, skipping over the silly kid's song in favor of a more detailed look at your your axial and appendicular skeleton. This episode also talks about the structural and functional classifications of your joints and the major types of body movement that they facilitate.
May 26, 2015
Season 1Episode 2110 min
Muscles, Part 1 - Muscle Cells
We're kicking off our exploration of muscles with a look at the complex and important relationship between actin and myosin. Your smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles create movement by contracting and releasing in a process called the sliding filament model. Your skeletal muscles are constructed like a rope made of bundles of protein fibers, and that the smallest strands are your actin and myosin myofilaments. Its their use of calcium and ATP that causes the binding and unbinding that makes sarcomeres contract and relax.
Jun 8, 2015
Season 1Episode 2210 min
Muscles, Part 2 - Organismal Level
Hank calls in a friend to do his push ups for him today to explain how skeletal muscles work together to create and reverse movements. Hank and Claire also demonstrate the role size plays in motor units, the three phase cycle of muscle twitches, and how the strength and frequency of an impulse affects the strength and duration of a contraction. This episode also explains twitch summation, tetanus, and isotonic vs. isometric movements.
Jun 15, 2015
Season 1Episode 2310 min
Endocrine System, Part 1 - Glands & Hormones
Hank begins teaching you about your endocrine system by explaining how it uses glands to produce hormones. These hormones are either amino-acid based and water soluble, or steroidal and lipid-soluble, and may target many types of cells or just turn on specific ones. He will also touch on hormone cascades, and how the HPA axis effects your stress response.
Jun 22, 2015
Season 1Episode 2410 min
Endocrine System, Part 2 - Hormone Cascades
In the second half of our look at the endocrine system, Hank discusses chemical homeostasis and hormone cascades. Specifically, he looks at the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis, or HPT axis, and all the ways your body can suffer when that system, or your hormones in general, get out of whack.
Jun 29, 2015
Season 1Episode 2510 min
The Heart, Part 1 - Under Pressure
Your heart gets a lot of attention from poets, songwriters, and storytellers, but today Hank's gonna tell you how it really works. The heart’s ventricles, atria, and valves create a pump that maintains both high and low pressure to circulate blood from the heart to the body through your arteries, and bring it back to the heart through your veins. You'll also learn what your blood pressure measurements mean when we talk about systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Jul 6, 2015
Season 1Episode 2610 min
The Heart, Part 2 - Heart Throbs
Today we're talking the heart and heart throbs -- both literal and those of the televised variety. Hank explains how your heart’s pacemaker cells use leaky membranes to generate their own action potentials, and how the resulting electricity travels through the cardiac conduction pathway from SA Node to Purkinje fibers, allowing your heart to contract. He's also going to make you better able to spot inaccuracies in medical dramas by explaining how defibrillators work to reset the rhythm of your heart.
Jul 13, 2015
Season 1Episode 2710 min
Blood Vessels, Part 1 - Form and Function
Now that we've discussed blood, we're beginning our look at how it gets around your body. Today Hank explains your blood vessels and their basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We're also going over how those structures differ slightly in different types of vessels. We will also follow the flow of blood from your heart to capillaries in your right thumb, and all the way back to your heart again.
Jul 20, 2015
Season 1Episode 2810 min
Blood Vessels, Part 2 - Blood Pressure Kills
And now we return to blood vessels. In this episode, we start discussing what blood pressure is, how it can become "high", and what that means for our health. One of the more interesting points is that your body has ways of dealing with high blood pressure, but they're not ways we want out bodies to operate on a full time basis. And why can't we butter our bacon? WHY!?!?!
Jul 27, 2015
Season 1Episode 2910 min
Blood, Part 1 - True Blood
Now that we've talked about your blood vessels, we're going to zoom in a little closer and talk about your blood itself. We'll start by outlining the basic components of blood -- including erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma -- as well as the basic process of hemostasis that stops bleeding, and how antigens are responsible for the blood type that you have. By the end of this episode, you should be totally prepared for your next blood drive.
Aug 3, 2015
Season 1Episode 3010 min
Blood, Part 2 - There Will Be Blood
It's time to start talking about some of the terrible things you can do to your own body, like blood doping. We'll start by explaining the structure and function of your erythrocytes, and of hemoglobin, which they use to carry oxygen. We'll follow the formation and life cycle of a red blood cell, including how their levels are regulated by EPO and their signalling molecules. We'll wrap up by looking at how blood doping works and how it is truly a recipe for disaster.
Aug 11, 2015
Season 1Episode 3110 min
Respiratory System, Part 1 - Bulk Flow vs Simple Diffusion
So we all know that breathing is pretty important, right? Today we're going to talk about how it works, starting with the nameless evolutionary ancestor that we inherited this from, and continuing to the mechanics of both simple diffusion and bulk flow, as well as the physiology of breathing, and finishing with the anatomy of both the conducting zone and the respiratory zone of your respiratory system.
Aug 24, 2015
Season 1Episode 3210 min
Respiratory System, Part 2 - Gas Exchange
Can a paper bag really help you when you are hyperventilating? It turns out that it can. In part 2 of our look at your respiratory system Hank explains how your blood cells exchange oxygen and CO2 to maintain homeostasis. We'll dive into partial pressure gradients, and how they, along with changes in blood temperature, acidity, and CO2 concentrations, change how hemoglobin binds to gases in your blood. (And yes, we'll explain the paper bag thing too!)
Aug 31, 2015
Season 1Episode 3310 min
Digestive System, Part 1 - The 30 Foot Tube
Nachos are delicious. And versatile because today they're also going to help us learn a thing or two about your digestive system. Nachos can provide us with energy and raw materials, by first ingesting something nutritious, propelling it through the alimentary canal where it will be mechanically broken down, and chemically digested by enzymes until my cells can absorb their monomers and use them to make whatever they need. And eventually, there will be pooping.
Sep 7, 2015
Season 1Episode 3410 min
Digestive System, Part 2 - From Mouth to Stomach
Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach. He was saved by local army doctor William Beaumont, but had to live out his remaining years with a gaping hole in the stomach -- allowing Beaumont to learn a lot about how human digestion works. So today we're going to walk you through that process. We'll cover how mechanical and chemical digestion start in the mouth and continues in the stomach, where it’s pummeled by acids and enzymes and turned into chyme. We will also go over the stomach’s cephalic, gastric, and intestinal phases of digestive regulation.
Sep 14, 2015
Season 1Episode 3510 min
Digestive System, Part 3 - Intestines & Accessory Organs
Nachos are great...if you are among the lucky ones whose body can digest them. When digestion goes according to plan, the small intestine performs most of your chemical digestion in the duodenum, while accessory organs including the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas contribute enzymes that all but finish the job. Then your large intestine, which is actually shorter than the small intestine, tries to extract the last bit of nutrition, including the occasional attempt to turn nachos into energy, which for most humans, ends in gassy failure.
Sep 22, 2015
Season 1Episode 3610 min
Metabolism & Nutrition, Part 1 - Making Stuff
Metabolism is a complex process that has a lot more going on than personal trainers and commercials might have you believe. Today we are exploring some of its key parts, including vital nutrients -- such as water, vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats, and proteins -- as well as how anabolic reactions build structures and require energy, while catabolic reactions tear things apart and release energy.
Sep 28, 2015
Season 1Episode 3710 min
Metabolism & Nutrition, Part 2 - Using Energy
If you're like us, you love the sound of a brunch buffet. But not everything you eat at that glorious buffet is going to be turned into energy. Your body has to work with different forms of food in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank takes us through more about our metabolism including cellular respiration, atp, glycogenesis, and how insulin regulates our blood sugar levels.
Oct 5, 2015
Season 1Episode 3810 min
Urinary System, Part 1 - The Kidneys!
Even though you probably don't choose to spend a lot of time thinking about it, your pee is kind of a big deal. Today we're talking about the anatomy of your urinary system, and how your kidneys filter metabolic waste and balance salt and water concentrations in the blood. We'll cover how nephrons use glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion to reabsorb water and nutrients back into the blood, and make urine with the leftovers.
Oct 12, 2015
Season 1Episode 3910 min
Urinary System, Part 2 - Urine!
As we promised last week, we're not quite done talking about your pee yet. Today Hank explains how the urinary system regulates the production of urine, by maintaining a study glomerular flow rate. He'll also cover the anatomy of storing and excreting urine -- from the ureters to the urethra -- and the nervous system’s role in controlling the act of urination.
Oct 19, 2015
Season 1Episode 4010 min
Reproductive System, Part 1 - Female Reproductive System
Human reproduction is complicated an important, and it's going to take a four part series for us to cover it. Today, we're kicking that off with the female reproductive system, starting with how sex hormones affect oogenesis and ovulation, continuing through how the ovarian and menstrual cycles mature and release oocytes, and create a comfy uterine environment for a fertilized egg.
Oct 26, 2015
Season 1Episode 4110 min
Reproductive System, Part 2 - Male Reproductive System
Our month-long exploration of human reproduction continues with a look at testicular anatomy, the steps of sperm production, and how it’s influenced by gonadotropin and testosterone. Hank also explains how sperm mature, and how they leave the body on a tide of glandular secretions during ejaculation.
Nov 9, 2015
Season 1Episode 4210 min
Reproductive System, Part 3 - Sex & Fertilization
After weeks of discussion of human reproduction, today we arrive at the main event: THE SEX. Hank explains the four phases of the human sexual response, how a sperm finds and fertilizes an egg, creating a zygote, and how different types of contraception work to prevent that from happening.
Nov 16, 2015
Season 1Episode 4310 min
Reproductive System, Part 4 - Pregnancy & Development
We've reached the grand finale of our four part series on human reproduction: BABIES! Today Hank walks you through the stages of pregnancy, beginning with how a zygote develops into blastomeres to a morula to a blastocyst and finally to an embryo and a fetus. He also explains some of the amazing anatomical changes that take place in the mother, and the hormonal sequence of events that lead to labor.
Nov 23, 2015
Season 1Episode 4410 min
Lymphatic System
Today Hank explains your unsung lymphatic system and how it supports cardiovascular function by collecting, filtering, and returning interstitial fluid back into the bloodstream via a system of lymphatic vessels. He also explains the system’s major role in fighting off infection, and how lymph nodes, and other lymphoid organs, and MALT areas house antigen-attacking lymphocytes that provide crucial support to the immune system.
Nov 30, 2015
Season 1Episode 4510 min
Immune System, Part 1 - Innate Defenses
Our final episodes of Anatomy & Physiology explore the way your body keeps all that complex, intricate stuff alive and healthy -- your immune system. The immune system’s responses begin with physical barriers like skin and mucous membranes, and when they’re not enough, there are phagocytes -- the neutrophils and macrophages. It also features the awesomely named natural killer cells and the inflammatory response, and we'll explain how all of these elements work together to save the day if you happen to slip on a banana peel.
Dec 8, 2015
Season 1Episode 4610 min
Immune System, Part 2 - Adaptive Defenses
In the penultimate episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank explains your adaptive immune system. The adaptive immune system's humoral response guards extracellular terrain against pathogens. Hank also explains B cells, antibodies, and how vaccines work.
Dec 14, 2015
Season 1Episode 4710 min
Immune System, Part 3 - The Cell-Mediated Response
THE FINAL SHOWDOWN! This is the last episode on the immune system and also the very last episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology. In it, Hank explains how the cellular immune response uses helper, cytotoxic, and regulatory T cells to attack body cells compromised by pathogens. He also explores how cytokines activate B and T cells, and what happens if your immune system goes rogue and starts causing autoimmune trouble.
Dec 21, 2015
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