This program questions some of the long-held stereotypes about aging and the mind. Researchers try to separate normal mood variation from serious or chronic symptoms of depression and offer their explanations of the origins of depression. Delves into the first signs of interaction between innate programming in the mind and reaction to the enviroment. 495 Language is a unique property of the human mind. Focus is on the special human phenomenon of speech.
Scientists prove that linguistic capacity is present even without speech and hearing.
This program studies how and why people become addicted. This program introduces this problem, providing an historical context that ranges from ancient Greece to Freud's first attempts at psychoanalysis. Faced with growing violence in society scientific data raises difficult questions about the punishment of criminals. 496 Scientists now propose that human thought is distinct from the thinking of animals or computers. 675 History of the use and control of electricity.