The brain [videorecording] / the Annenberg/CPB Project ; authors/co-producers, Frank J. Vattano, Thomas L. Bennett, Michelle Butler ; produced by the Office of Instructional Services, Colorado State University ; producer/director, Michael Ellis.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publisher:
Worth Publishers,
Copyright Date:
c2002
Description:
32 modules on 3 videodiscs (273 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"Originally edited from Annenberg/CPB's series The Brain--eight one-hour programs that first aired on PBS in 1984. Narrator: George Page.
Contents:
disc 1. Foundations (1. Organization and evaluation of brain function; 2. The effects of hormones and the environment on brain development; 3. Gender development: social influences; 4. Intelligence and culture) -- Cortical organization and specialization (5. The divided brain; 6. Language and speech: broca and wernicke's areas; 7. Brain anomaly and plasticity: hydrocephalus) -- Vision and movement (8. Visual information processing: elementary concepts; 9. Visual information processing: perception; 10. Perception: inverted vision; 11. Sensory-motor integration; 12. Huntington's disease) -- Circadian rhythms, sleep, and dreaming (13. Sleep and circadian rhythms; 14. Sleep: brain functions; 15. REM sleep and dreaming) (106 min.) -- disc 2. Memory and amnesia (16. The locus of learning and memory; 17. Learning as synaptic change; 18. Living with amnesia: the hippocampus and memory; 19. Alzheimer's disease; 20. A super-memorist advises on study strategies) -- Stress and coping (21. Emotions, stress, and health; 22. Stress: locus of control and predictability) -- Personality and aggression (23. Multiple personality; 24. Aggression, violence, and the brain; 25. Frontal lobes and behavior: the story of phineas gage) (89 min.) -- Tape 3. Psychological disorders (26. Schizophrenia: symptoms) -- disc 3. 27. Schizophrenia: etiology; 28. Schizophrenia: pharmacological treatment; 29. Autism) -- Treatment of brain disorders (30. Understanding the brain through epilepsy; 31. Brain transplants in parkinson's patients; 32. Neurorehabilitation) (78 min.).
Summary:
Included in this series on the brain are the latest findings on Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, brain transplants, epilepsy, autism, and many other topics.
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.