Biology and Human Behavior : The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition (The Great Courses, 1597, DVD)

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2005. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 120-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Not from a library. From the estate of Amato Giaccia, MD. Suitable for gifting.

An interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. 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.

Contents:
Lecture 1 Biology and Behavior—An Introduction ;
Lecture 2 The Basic Cells of the Nervous System ;
Lecture 3 How Two Neurons Communicate ;
Lecture 4 Learning and Synaptic Plasticity ;
Lecture 5 The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons ;
Lecture 6 The Limbic System ;
Lecture 7 The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) ;
Lecture 8 The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain ;
Lecture 9 The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones ;
Lecture 10 The Evolution of Behavior ;
Lecture 11 The Evolution of Behavior—Some Examples ;
Lecture 12 Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics ;
Lecture 13 What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes ;
Lecture 14 What Do Genes Do? Macroevolution of Genes ;
Lecture 15 Behavior Genetics ;
Lecture 16 Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment ;
Lecture 17 An Introduction to Ethology ;
Lecture 18 Neuroethology ;
Lecture 19 The Neurobiology of Aggression I ;
Lecture 20 The Neurobiology of Aggression II ;
Lecture 21 Hormones and Aggression ;
Lecture 22 Early Experience and Aggression ;
Lecture 23 Evolution, Aggression, and Cooperation ;
Lecture 24 A Summary.