Understanding the brain
By: Jeanette Norden
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses; Science & mathematics; Great courses (DVD); BIO 201 (NU course); ILR 260 (NU course); PSY 655 (NU course)
Publisher: Teaching Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 9781598033625
Subjects: Brain; Neurophysiology; Neurosciences; Nervous system
Description: This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works.  Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does.  Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight; where pressure waves that reach the ear are processed into sound; where fear originates; which nuclei are involved in language and the ability to read; where the ineffable chemistry of love is kindled.
Notes: Course no. 1580.

"36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture"--Container cover.

Course guidebook includes bibliography (p. 166-174).

Course guidebook accompanies parts 1-3, issued in three separate containers.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Part I : Lecture 1. Historical underpinnings of neuroscience; title: Lecture 2. Central nervous system; title: gross organization; title: Lecture 3. Central nervous system... internal organization; title: Lecture 4. Central nervous system... subdivisions; title: Lecture 5. Cortex... lobes and areas; title: Lecture 6. Cortex... sensory, motor, and association areas; title: Lecture 7. Central nervous system... -development; title: Lecture 8.  Central nervous system... cellular organization; title: Lecture 9. Pathways and synapses; title: Lecture 10. Neurotransmitters; title: Lecture 11. Stroke; title: Lecture 12. The visual system; title: the eye; title: Part II : Lecture 13. The visual system... the cortex; title: Lecture 14. The auditory system; title: Lecture 15. The somatosensory system; title: Lecture 16. Agnosias; title: Lecture 17. The motor system... voluntary movement; title: Lecture 18. The motor system... coordinated movement; title: Lecture 19. Parkinson's disease; title: Lecture 20. Language; title: Lecture 21. The limbic system; title: anatomy; title: Lecture 22. The limbic system... biochemistry; title: Lecture 23. Depression; title: Lecture 24. The reward system; title: anatomy; title: Part III : Lecture 25. The reward system; title: drugs; title: Lecture 26. Brain plasticity; title: Lecture 27.  Emotion and executive function; title: Lecture 28.  Processing of negative emotions; title: fear; title: Lecture 29. Music and the brain; title: Lecture 30. Sexual dimorphism of the brain; title: Lecture 31. Sleep and dreaming; title: Lecture 32. Consciousness and the self; title: Lecture 33.  Alzheimer's disease; title: Lecture 34. Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease; title: Lecture 35. Wellness and the brain; title: effects of stress; title: Lecture 36. Neuroscience; title: looking back and looking ahead.