Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Understanding the brain / producer, Alisha Reay ; director, Jon Leven.

Edition:

Standard format.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

Summary:

"Designed as a survey course to introduce individuals without a background in science to the modern field of neuroscience. Drawing on everyday experience and popular books, as well as current research, the course seeks to amaze and inform the learner about" the brain -- Course guidebook.

Series:

Great courses. Science & mathematics. Biology

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.

Subjects:

Brain.

Neurophysiology.

Neurosciences.

Brain -- Physiology.

Brain -- Pathophysiology.

Genre:

Instructional films.

Filmed lectures.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Norden, Jeanette.

Reay, Alisha.

Leven, Jon.

Teaching Company.

Notes:

Collective title, part numbers & lecture titles from disc menus. Disc numeration from disc labels.

Course guidebook includes an outline for each lecture, a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (Course guidebook, pages 166-174).

Camera operators, Lonnie Harrell, Alexis Doty, Jim Allen, Nancy Evans.

Taught by Jeanette Norden.

DVD.

Public performance rights included.

In English.

Contents:

Part one: disc 1. Historical underpinnings of neuroscience -- Central nervous system : gross organization -- Central nervous system : internal organization -- Central nervous system : subdivisions -- Cortex : lobes and areas -- Cortex : sensory, motor, and association areas -- disc 2. Central nervous system : development -- Central nervous system : cellular organization -- Pathways and synapses -- Neurotransmitters -- Stroke -- The visual system : the eye.

Part two: disc 3. The visual system : the cortex -- The auditory system -- The somatosensory system -- Agnosias -- The motor system : voluntary movement -- The motor system : coordinated movement -- disc 4. Parkinson's disease -- Language -- The limbic system : anatomy -- The limbic system : biochemistry -- Depression -- The reward system : anatomy.

Part three: disc 5. The reward system : drugs -- Brain plasticity -- Emotion and executive function -- Processing of negative emotions : fear -- Music and the brain -- Sexual dimorphism of the brain -- disc 6. Sleep and dreaming -- Consciousness and the self -- Alzheimer's disease -- Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease -- Wellness and the brain : effects of stress -- Neuroscience : looking back and looking ahead.

ISBN:

1598033638

9781598033632

159803362X

9781598033625

Publisher Number:

1580

PD1580-01

PD1580-02

PD1580-03

Other Number:

179833507

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

208873

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 612.82 Understa