Understanding the Brain (The Great Courses, 1580, DVD)

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2007. DVDs. New. In plastic wrap. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six new DVDs in a new case along with a new 190-page paperback illustrated Course Guidebook.

Understanding the Brain, a 36-lecture course by award-winning Professor Jeanette Norden of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ and shows you how it works, from the gross level of its organization to the molecular level of how cells in the brain communicate. With its combination of neurology, biology, and psychology, this course will help you understand how we perceive the world through our senses, how we move, how we learn and remember, and how emotions affect our thoughts and actions.

Contents:
Lecture 1: Historical Underpinnings of Neuroscience; Lecture 2 Central Nervous System - Gross Organization; Lecture 3 Central Nervous System - Internal Organization; Lecture 4 Central Nervous System - Subdivisions; Lecture 5 Cortex - Lobes and Areas; Lecture 6 Cortex - Sensory/Motor/Association Areas; Lecture 7 Central Nervous System - Development; Lecture 8 Central Nervous System - Cellular Organization; Lecture 9 Pathways and Synapses; Lecture 10 Neurotransmitters; Lecture 11 Stroke; Lecture 12 The Visual System - The Eye; Lecture 13 The Visual System - The Cortex; Lecture 14 The Auditory System; Lecture 15 The Somatosensory System; Lecture 16 Agnosias; Lecture 17 The Motor System - Voluntary Movement; Lecture 18 The Motor System - Coordinated Movement; Lecture 19 Parkinson's Disease; Lecture 20 Language; Lecture 21 the Limbic System - Anatomy; Lecture 22 The Limbic System - Biochemistry; Lecture 23 Depression; Lecture 24 The Reward System - Anatomy; Lecture 25 The Reward System - Drugs; Lecture 26 Brain Plasticity; Lecture 27 Emotion and Executive Function; Lecture 28 Processing of Negative Emotions - Fear; Lecture 29 Music and the Brain; Lecture 30 Sexual Dimorphism of the Brain; Lecture 31 Sleep and Dreaming; Lecture 32 Consciousness and the Self; Lecture 33 Alzheimer's Disease; Lecture 34 Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease; Lecture 35 Wellness and the Brain - Effects of Stress; Lecture 36 Neuroscience - Looking Back and Looking Ahead.