Understanding the brain. Parts 1-3 course guidebook

Summary: This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight; where pressure waves that reach the ear are processed into sound; where fear originates; which nuclei are involved in language and the ability to read; where the ineffable chemistry of love is kindled.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598033625 (set) :
ISBN: 159803362X (set) :
Physical Description: videorecording
optical disc
videodisc
6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 174 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Course no. 1580. "36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture"--Container cover. Course guidebook includes bibliography (p. 166-174). Course guidebook accompanies parts 1-3, issued in three separate containers.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I : Lecture 1. Historical underpinnings of neuroscience -- Lecture 2. Central nervouse 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, and 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 --
Participant or Performer Note:	Taught by: Professor Jeanette Norden, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
System Details Note:	DVD.