The neuroscience of everyday life /
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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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
Ã2010.
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| Series: | Great courses. Science & mathematics. Psychology
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Table of Contents:
- Disc 1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.