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The neuroscience of everyday life, Sam Wang

Label
The neuroscience of everyday life
Title
The neuroscience of everyday life
Statement of responsibility
Sam Wang
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce
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Cataloging source
GO3
Characteristic
videorecording
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1967-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Wang, Sam
Dewey number
612.8
LC call number
QP360 W36 2010
PerformerNote
Lecturer: Professor Sam Wang, Princeton University
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Teaching Company
Runtime
http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/unknown
Series statement
The great courses. Science & mathematics. Psychology
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  • Neurosciences
  • Nervous system
  • Nervous system
  • Neurobiology
  • Neural networks (Neurobiology)
  • Developmental neurobiology
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Psychobiology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Brain
  • Brain mapping
  • Brain
  • Brain
  • Brain
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Learning
  • Senses and sensation
  • Memory
Technique
live action
Label
The neuroscience of everyday life, Sam Wang
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "Course no. 1540."
  • The Teaching Company: ID1540A-01 (container), PD1540A (disc surfaces)
  • Thirty-six lectures on 6 videodiscs lasting 30 minutes each
  • Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references
Accompanying material
1 course guidebook (viii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Disc 1. Lectures 1 to 6.
  • What is neuroscience?
  • How do neuroscientists study the brain?
  • Evolution, energetics, and the 10% myth
  • Neurons and synapses
  • Neurotransmitters and drugs
  • Juicing the brain --
  • Disc 2. Lectures 7 to 12.
  • Coming to your senses
  • Perception and your brain's little lies
  • Pain, all in your head?
  • Decisions, your brain's secret ballot
  • Reward, adaptation, and addiction
  • Many forms of memory --
  • Disc 3. Lectures 13 - 18.
  • Quirks of memory
  • Learning, studying, and sleep
  • Willpower and mental Work
  • Work, play, and stress
  • Biological timekeepers and jet lag
  • Hidden talents of infants --
  • Disc 4. Lectures 19- 24.
  • Mozart myth and active learning
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Handedness: sports, speech, and presidents
  • Reaching the top of the mountain: aging
  • "Brain exercise" and real exercise
  • Animal and human personality --
  • Disc 5. Lectures 25 - 30.
  • Intelligence, genes, and environment
  • Weather in your brain: emotions
  • Fear, loathing, and anger
  • From weather to climate: Mood
  • Social brain, empathy, and autism
  • Mars and Venus: Men's and Women's brains --
  • Disc 6. Lectures 31to 36.
  • Sex, love, and bonds for life
  • Math and other evolutionary curiosities
  • Consciousness and free will
  • Near-death and other extreme experiences
  • Spirituality and Religion
  • Happiness and other research opportunities
Control code
875065
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
6 videodiscs (18 hr.)
Form of item
direct electronic
Isbn
9781598036978
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
digital
Publisher number
  • ID1540A-01
  • PD1540A
  • PB1540A
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o690921952
  • (OCoLC)690921952
System details
DVD
Video recording format
DVD
Label
The neuroscience of everyday life, Sam Wang
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "Course no. 1540."
  • The Teaching Company: ID1540A-01 (container), PD1540A (disc surfaces)
  • Thirty-six lectures on 6 videodiscs lasting 30 minutes each
  • Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references
Accompanying material
1 course guidebook (viii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Disc 1. Lectures 1 to 6.
  • What is neuroscience?
  • How do neuroscientists study the brain?
  • Evolution, energetics, and the 10% myth
  • Neurons and synapses
  • Neurotransmitters and drugs
  • Juicing the brain --
  • Disc 2. Lectures 7 to 12.
  • Coming to your senses
  • Perception and your brain's little lies
  • Pain, all in your head?
  • Decisions, your brain's secret ballot
  • Reward, adaptation, and addiction
  • Many forms of memory --
  • Disc 3. Lectures 13 - 18.
  • Quirks of memory
  • Learning, studying, and sleep
  • Willpower and mental Work
  • Work, play, and stress
  • Biological timekeepers and jet lag
  • Hidden talents of infants --
  • Disc 4. Lectures 19- 24.
  • Mozart myth and active learning
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Handedness: sports, speech, and presidents
  • Reaching the top of the mountain: aging
  • "Brain exercise" and real exercise
  • Animal and human personality --
  • Disc 5. Lectures 25 - 30.
  • Intelligence, genes, and environment
  • Weather in your brain: emotions
  • Fear, loathing, and anger
  • From weather to climate: Mood
  • Social brain, empathy, and autism
  • Mars and Venus: Men's and Women's brains --
  • Disc 6. Lectures 31to 36.
  • Sex, love, and bonds for life
  • Math and other evolutionary curiosities
  • Consciousness and free will
  • Near-death and other extreme experiences
  • Spirituality and Religion
  • Happiness and other research opportunities
Control code
875065
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
6 videodiscs (18 hr.)
Form of item
direct electronic
Isbn
9781598036978
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
digital
Publisher number
  • ID1540A-01
  • PD1540A
  • PB1540A
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o690921952
  • (OCoLC)690921952
System details
DVD
Video recording format
DVD

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