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Biology and human behavior : the neurological origins of individuality / Robert Sapolsky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2005.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (iv, 154 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)ISBN:
  • 9781598030808 (set)
  • 1598030809
Other title:
  • The neurological origins of individuality
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 S241b 2005
Contents:
Disc 1: Lecture 1. Biology and behavior -- an introduction -- lecture 2. The basic cells of the nervous system -- lecture 3. How. two neurons communicate -- lecture 4. Learning and synaptic plasticity -- lecture 5. The dynamics of interacting neurons -- lecture 6. The limbic system -- lecture 7. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) -- lecture 8. The regulation of hormones by the brain -- lecture 9. The regulation of the brain by hormones -- lecture 10. The evolution of behavior -- lecture 11. The evolution of behavior -- some examples -- lecture 12. Cooperation, competition and neuroeconomics -- Disc 2: lecture 13. What do genes do? Microevolution of genes -- lecture 14. What do genes do? Macroevolution of genes -- lecture 15. Behavior genetics -- lecture 16. Behavior Genetics and prenatal environment -- lecture 17. An introduction to ethology -- lecture 18. Neuroethology -- lecture 19. The neurobiology of aggression I -- lecture 20. The neurobiology of aggression II -- lecture 21. Hormones and aggression -- lecture 22. Early experience and aggression -- lecture 23. Evolution, aggression, and cooperation -- lecture 24. A summary.
Summary: Investigates 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.
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Course no. 1597.
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.

"Science & mathematics"--Container

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

Investigates 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.

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