My love affair with the brain : the life and science of Dr. Marian Diamond / Luna Productions in collaboration with The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Scientific American presents ; produced and directed by Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg ; written, photographed, and edited by Gary Weimberg.
Edition:
Film festival version.
Publisher:
Luna Productions,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
"v9.8.6" Documentary. Narrator, Jess Miller. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
How she changed science -- Teacher to the world -- Our bodies -- The woman w/ Einstein's brain -- Your brain on love -- Love & 904-day-old rats -- Che and Indigo -- Fun with anatomy -- Cambodia -- Pie -- Still love the brain -- Retirement -- "Don't you just love the brain".
Summary:
How can you not fall in love with a woman who carries around a preserved human brain inside a giant flowery hat box? Meet Dr. Marian Diamond, renowned academic and research scientist. Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg;s film follows this remarkable woman over a 5-year period and introduces the viewer to both her many scientific accomplishments and the warm, funny, and thoroughly charming woman herself, who describes her 60-year career researching the human brain as "pure joy." As one of the founders of modern neuroscience, it's no exaggeration to say that Dr. Diamond changed science, and society at large, in dramatic ways over the course of her career. Enrichment, plasticity--capabilities of the brain we now take for granted--were the scientific battleground where Dr. Marian Diamond decisively challenged the old view and changed forever our understanding of the brain. Her groundbreaking work is all the more remarkable because it began during an era when so few women entered science at all. Shouted at from the back of the conference hall by noteworthy male academics as she presented her research, and disparaged in the scientific journals of a more conservative era, Dr. Diamond simply did the work and followed where her curiosity led her, bringing about a paradigm shift (or two) in the process. As she points out, in order to get to the answers that matter, you have to start by asking the right questions.--Adapted from publisher website.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)960946994
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
LVOX826 -- Palmer College of Chiropractic (Davenport)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.