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Author Sapolsky, Robert M.

Title Biology and human behavior : the neurological origins of individuality / [Robert M. Sapolsky].

Imprint Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., ℗2005.

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 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  GC 612.82 SAP DISC 1-12    Check Shelf
Edition 2nd ed. ; Library ed.
Description 12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebook (76, 69 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm).
Series Great courses.
Great courses (Compact disc)
Note Compact discs.
Course no. 1597.
12 lectures.
Includes lecture notes, outlines, glossary and diagrams.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Performer Lectures delivered by Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University.
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. Summary.
Summary Interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of 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. Explains how little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.
Subject Neurophysiology.
Neurochemistry.
Biology.
Behaviorism (Psychology)
Behaviorism (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00829955
Biology. (OCoLC)fst00832383
Neurochemistry. (OCoLC)fst01036329
Neurophysiology. (OCoLC)fst01036464
Genre/Form Audiobooks -- Nonfiction.
Added Author Teaching Company.
Added Title Neurological origins of individuality
ISBN 1598030795
9781598030792
Music No. 1597 Teaching Co.
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