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Sapolsky, Robert M.
Human behavior -- Evolution.
Biology.
Neurophysiology.
Neurochemistry.
Neuroanatomy.
Brain -- Anatomy.
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Biology and human behavior [videorecording (DVD)] : the
neurological
origins
of
individuality
/ Professor Robert Sapolsky.
by
Sapolsky, Robert M.
Teaching Co., 2005.
Call #:
DVD 612.82 S241b
Subjects
Human behavior -- Evolution.
Biology.
Neurophysiology.
Neurochemistry.
Neuroanatomy.
Brain -- Anatomy.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781598030808
1598030809
Alternate title:
Great Courses. Biology and human behavior [videorecording (DVD)] : the
neurological
origins
of
individuality
Neurological
origins
of
individuality
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Edition:
2nd ed.
Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 guidebook (iv, 154 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Notes:
Course guidebook includes a course outline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Course no. 1597.
"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Home use only.
Contents:
Disc 1. Biology and behavior--an introduction -- The basic cells of the nervous system -- How two neurons communicate -- Learning and synaptic plasticity -- The dynamics of interacting neurons -- The limbic system -- Disc 2. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) -- The regulation of hormones by the brain -- The regulation of the brain by hormones -- The evolution of behavior -- The evolution of behavior--some examples -- Cooperation, competition, and neuroeconomicspt -- Disc 3. What do genes do? microevolution of genes -- What do genes do? macroevolution of genes -- Behavior genetics -- Behavior genetics and prenatal environment -- An introduction to ethology -- Neuroethology -- Disc 4. The neurobiology of aggression I -- The neurobiology of aggression II -- Hormones and aggression -- Early experience and evolution -- Evolution, aggression and cooperation -- A summary.
Production:
Producer, Alisha Reay ; director, Jon Leven ; editor, Alisha Reay ; academic content supervisor, Pam Greer ; camera operators, Alexis Doty, Jim Allen, Tom Dooley, Jared Bourgeois ; graphics, Alisha Reay, Jennifer Gray.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University.
Summary:
An interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, investigating 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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Educational films.
DVDs.
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