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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Biology and human behavior [videorecording] : the neurological origins of individuality / taught by Robert Sapolsky.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2005.

Description:

4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

An interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, investigating how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors.

Series:

The great courses

Great courses (DVD)

Subjects:

Human behavior -- Evolution.

Biology.

Neurophysiology.

Neurochemistry.

Neuroanatomy.

Brain -- Anatomy.

Educational films.

Other Author:

Sapolsky, Robert M.

Teaching Company.

Other Title:

Neurological origins of individuality

Notes:

Title from container.

"Course no. 1597"--Disc surfaces.

Twenty-four lectures (30 min. each).

Course guidebook includes a course outline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Producer, Alisha Reay ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, Alisha Reay ; academic content supervisor, Pam Greer ; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jim Allen, Tom Dooley, Jared Bourgeois ; graphics, Alisha Reay, Jennifer Gray.

Lecturer, Robert Sapolsky.

DVD videos.

Contents:

pt. 1. disc 1. 1. Biology and behavior--an introduction ; 2. The basic cells of the nervous system ; 3. How two neurons communicate ; 4. Learning and synaptic plasticity ; 5. The dynamics of interacting neurons ; 6. The limbic system -- disc 2. 7. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) ; 8. The regulation of hormones by the brain ; 9. The regulation of the brain by hormones ; 10. The evolution of behavior ; 11. The evolution of behavior--some examples ; 2. Cooperation, competition, and neuroeconomics.

pt. 2. disc 3. 13. What do genes do? microevolution of genes ; 14. What do genes do? macroevolution of genes ; 15. Behavior genetics ; 16. Behavior genetics and prenatal environment ; 17. An introduction to ethology ; 18. Neuroethology -- disc 4. 19. The neurobiology of aggression I ; 20. The neurobiology of aggression II ; 21. Hormones and aggression ; 22. Early experience and evolution ; 23. Evolution, aggression and cooperation ; 24. A summary.

ISBN:

1598030809

9781598030808

149068977X (DVD)

978149068977

Publisher Number:

1597

PD1597-01

PD1597-02

Other Number:

192073046

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

536957

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 573.819 Biology

Medium:

[videorecording]