Biology and human behavior
Subtitle: the neurological origins of individuality
By: the Teaching Company
Contributors: Teaching Company
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Great courses; Great Courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598030815
Subjects: Human behavior; Evolution; Biology; Neurophysiology; Neurochemistry; Neuroanatomy; Brain; Anatomy; Nervous system; Individuality; Nervous System; Behavior; Biologie; Neurophysiologie; Neurochimie; Neuroanatomie; Système nerveux; Comportement humain; Individualité
Other titles: Neurological origins of individuality
Description: Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, is an interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. In 24 lectures, you will investigate 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, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Lecture transcripts cover twenty-four lectures by Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neuroscience, Stanford University.

Newly recorded and expanded update of course originally produced in 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Lecture 1.; title: Biology and behavior-an introduction ; -- Lecture 2.; title: The basic cells of the nervous system ; -- Lecture 3.; title: How two neurons communicate ; -- Lecture 4.; title: Learning and synaptic plasticity ; -- Lecture 5.; title: The dynamics of interacting neurons ; -- Lecture 6.; title: The limbic system ; -- Lecture 7.; title: The autonomic nervous system (ANS) ; -- Lecture 8.; title: The regulation of hormones by the brain ; -- Lecture 9.; title: The regulation of the brain by hormones ; -- Lecture 10.; title: The evolution of behavior ; -- Lecture 11.; title: The evolution of behavior-some examples ; -- Lecture 12.; title: Cooperation, competition, and neuroeconomics.; title: Part II: Lecture 13.; title: What do genes do? microevolution of genes ; -- Lecture 14.; title: What do genes do? macroevolution of genes ; -- Lecture 15.; title: Behavior genetics ; -- Lecture 16.; title: Behavior Genetics and prenatal environment ; -- Lecture 17.; title: An introduction to ethology ; -- Lecture 18.; title: Neuroethology ; -- Lecture 19.; title: The neurobiology of aggression I ; -- Lecture 20.; title: The neurobiology of aggression II ; -- Lecture 21. Hormones and aggression ; -- Lecture 22.; title: Early experience and evolution ; -- Lecture 23.; title: Evolution, aggression and cooperation ; -- Lecture 24.; title: A summary.