Summary: Aided by powerful new diagnostic tools, scientists are making dramatic discoveries about how addiction affects the brain. In this program, Moyers goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an "image of desire" in the brain. We actually see images of a cocaine user's brain as the drug takes effect, and a doctor explains how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kessler, David A.
Summary: Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon--capture--is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 KESPeskin, Sara Manning
Summary: "A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 PESMarcus, Erica B.
Summary: "Using mindfulness techniques, this book teaches readers how to intentionally take charge of their technology use"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 153.7 MARKessler, David A.
Summary: Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613 KESFrith, Uta
Summary: "Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 FRISummary: Imagine simulating an entire brain in three-dimensions - complete with memory, perception, even mental illness - and actually functioning in real time! Henry Markram is director of Blue Brain, a supercomputing project that can model components of the mammalian brain in precise cellular detail - and simulate their activity. In this TEDTalk, Markram describes the awe-inspiring feat of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: For decades, IQ tests have been the gold standard for measuring intelligence. But is one standardized test really adequate for every taker? This program advocates a different approach, creating an array of unusual challenges to assess brainpower and positing an argument for the interplay of multiple intelligences. Assisted by the insights of Harvard's Howard Gardner and experts using brain...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Bone, Emily.
Summary: Presents information about trains and railroads, including the history of railroads, different types of trains, and famous trains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BONBethea, Nikole Brooks.
Summary: "This photo-illustrated book introduces early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind trains. Includes glossary and index."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pogo 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 625.2 BETMcDonald, Amy
Summary: "Developed by literacy experts in partnership with educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to trains through simple, predictable text and related photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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Summary: Travel! Learn how trains get the job done through narrative nonfiction, fun facts, infographics, a glossary, and more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaleidoscope 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Transport SchuhSummary: Pawan Sinha researches how our brains interpret what our eyes see - and, equipped with that knowledge, he gives blind children the gift of sight. In this TEDTalk, he details his groundbreaking investigation into the neurology of the human visual system, as well as his insights into engineering, autism, and other subjects. Sinha explains how his vision-restoring treatment can help us better...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved not to think or feel, but to control movement. Wolpert emphasizes the importance of movement by pointing out that all communication - speech, gestures, writing, sign language - is mediated through muscular contraction. In this entertaining, informative TEDTalk, Wolpert provides a glimpse into human motion and how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Prénat, Sophie
Summary: Flaps, pull tabs, and many other moveable parts show young children how these mighty engines have helped people travel and transport goods throughout history. Pull a tab to open train doors, lift flaps to see inside a train car, or turn a wheel to see different types of trains. Chock-full of surprising details and beautiful illustrations, this interactive book is a must-have for young train and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twirl/Bayard Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PREGrim, Patrick.
Contents: Part 1, Lecture 1. The dream, the brain, and the machine -- Lecture 2. The mind-body problem -- Lecture 3. Brains and minds, parts and wholes -- Lecture 4. The inner theater -- Lecture 5. Living in the material world -- Lecture 6. A functional approach to the mind -- Lecture 7. What is it about robots -- Lecture 8. Body image -- Lecture 9. Self-identity and other minds -- Lecture 10....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 100 PHICall number: DVD 100 PHI
Summary: Busting some gender-related beliefs while supporting others, this program shows that brain chemistry doesn't fit neatly into male and female categories. Five men and five women are put through scientific experiments, exploring major sex-related brain functions-including emotional recognition, empathy, competition, communication, and basic cognition. Candid camera sessions reveal male and female...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Study of the brain provides some of the answers that separate cultural and social from physiological distinctions between the sexes. Mammalian brains, including our own, show distinct differences between male and female in the thickness of the cortex and the size of the corpus callosum. The program shows some startling effects of hormone injections on brain structure and raises provocative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Shors, Tracey
Summary: "A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women-and how we can learn to heal ourselves Everyone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echoand etch itself into our brain as we remember it again and again throughout our lives. In Everyday Trauma, neuroscientist Dr. Tracey Shors...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SHOBorgert-Spaniol, Megan
Summary: "Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to the grains group. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.331 BORGibbons, Gail.
Summary: Examines different kinds of trains, past and present, describing their features and functions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1987
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 625.1 GIBMarsico, Katie
Summary: "Grains give you energy to think and play. Learn about the different types of grains farmers grow and how they help you maintain a healthy diet. Content encourages balance and making healthy choices. This level 3 guided reader is based on the U.S. government's diet recommendations. Readers will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about food and where it comes from....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Food MariscoBarton, Byron.
Summary: Brief text and illustrations present a variety of trains and what they do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1986