Biology and human behavior the neurological origins of individuality
(DVD)

Newly recorded and expanded update of course originally produced in 1998.

Attached media. Coursebook.

24 lectures, 30 minutes each.

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.

Lecturer, Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neuroscience, Stanford University.

The Neurological Origins of Individuality, is an interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. In 24 lectures, you will investigate 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, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.

Not rated.

DVD ; full screen.