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Biology and human behavior. the neurological origins of individuality Part 1 of 2

Sapolsky, Robert M. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

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.

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ISBN: 9781598030792
ISBN: 1598030795
Physical Description: 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (76 p. : ill ; 22 cm.)
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Edition: 2nd ed. ; Library ed.
Publisher: Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., c2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Compact discs. Part 1 of 2. Contains lectures 1-12 of 24 lectures on biology and human behavior. Course no. 1597. 12 lectures. Includes lecture notes, outlines, glossary and diagrams. Lectures delivered by Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibilographical references
Formatted Contents Note:	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.