Summary: This program opens in the emergency room of a large hospital where head injuries are an all-too-common problem. The importance of the brain is evident from the skill and technology employed in ensuring that any damage to it is minimized. Using combinations of computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and advanced surgical techniques, the program shows why the brain is so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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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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Summary: In this program, Dr. Susan Greenfield expresses her belief that all aspects of human experience will eventually be explained in terms of the physical processes of the brain. Cases drawn from the history of brain research-from the earliest and crudest studies of the effects of brain injury to the latest data derived from brain surgery on patients who are awake and alert-offer insights both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This documentary takes viewers on a tour of the world's most prolific manufacturer and user of drugs-the human brain. The biochemistry of the brain is responsible for joggers' highs, for the compulsion of some people to seek thrills, for certain kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior, even for the drive to achieve power and dominance. The program explores developments in the biochemistry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program explains research on the brain's processes: how individual parts of the brain work, how the brain uses pattern recognition rather than logic to interpret reality, which experiments with computer analogs have been successful and which have failed, and why. The program also provides interviews with some of the foremost researchers in the field, including neuroscientist John Hopfield,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Professor of applied neurobiology Susan Standring conducts a basic anatomical examination of the human brain and its connections in the skull using museum specimens. During the process, Standring identifies the cerebral lobes, optic nerves, arachnoid granulations, and blood vessels. Examining the cranial cavity with the brain removed, she points out the frontal bones, orbital plates, crista...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Davidson, Richard J.
Summary: A pioneer in brain research outlines a blueprint for human emotions while sharing strategies for correcting unhealthy emotional styles, providing recommendations for areas ranging from everyday well-being to the treatment of specific conditions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As far as Dr. Susan Greenfield is concerned, learning, memory, and even the process of individuation should be understood as a restless brain adapting moment by moment to the environment it encounters. This program charts the changes in the human brain as it develops from infancy to adulthood. The brain's extraordinary adaptability, as demonstrated by its ability to reorganize its neural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Amen, Daniel G.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" and "Magnificent Mind at Any Age" explains how to harness brain power to improve overall health and body function.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 AMESummary: One patient cannot recognize a single face, including his own. Another cannot see anything that is moving. And a third can watch and understand a soccer game, but cannot recognize the black-and-white object they are kicking. Drawing on the experiences of people with rare forms of brain damage, this program featuring Dr. Susan Greenfield reveals the tricks and shortcuts used by the brain to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Nunez, Paul L.
Summary: This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership. The new science goes well beyond traditional cognitive science and simple neural networks, which are often the focus in artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 NUNSummary: How well do we understand the neurology of learning? Why does the brain's ability to learn diminish as we age? Can science find a way to extend brain "fitness," even for the very old? This program addresses those questions as it describes important medical experiments and studies. Topics include the central role of nerve cell connections in learning and cognitive development; cerebral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The human nerve center never rests-even during sleep, it works diligently to process and build on the information gathered by our senses. Of course, healthy sleep is only one of many vital ingredients the brain needs to develop and thrive, as this film illustrates in detail. Other factors discussed in the program include ongoing contact with negative (deterring) and positive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: Neuropathologist Dr. Marco Rossi dissects and examines a normal human brain. Using three methods of dissection-coronal plane, CT-MRI plane, and sagittal plane-Dr. Rossi separates the hindbrain from the midbrain, and removes a portion of the brain containing the substantia nigra. The anterior and posterior of the forebrain are dissected, and each section is examined, along with the left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Amen, Daniel G.
Summary: "Dr. Amen will show you how the health of your relationships is directly tied to the health of your brain, and that understanding the brain is the missing link to helping couples and families who struggle"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Chopra, Deepak.
Summary: In this manual for relating to the brain in a revolutionary new way, the authors show readers how to use the brain as a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth. The authors are two pioneers: one a bestselling author and physician, and the other a Harvard Medical School professor and one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's disease. They have merged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.82 CHOPrat, Chantel Spring
Summary: "From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what's average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.8 PRASummary: The human brain is made up of the same biological building blocks as the rest of the body, and yet somehow it manages to generate consciousness. In this program, Dr. Susan Greenfield seeks to understand the human body's most remarkable phenomenon-and explains why the existence of each mind's private world of experiences and feelings is actually more incredible than the fact that life on Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Amen, Daniel G.
Summary: "How to supercharge your brain for better health, energy, mood, focus and sex"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Neuropathologist Dr. Marco Rossi examines different human brain specimens and presents evidence of trauma or disease. Brains examined include those of a 59-year-old woman with dementia; an 82-year-old man who suffered a road accident; a young man with a shunting tube for hydrocephalus; an elderly man with Parkinson's disease; an elderly female stroke victim; and a middle-aged woman with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Abramovitz, Melissa
Summary: "Thrilling new discoveries in science and technology are announced almost daily. Cutting-Edge Science and Technology keeps readers at the forefront of new research. Brain Science covers fascinating cutting-edge neuroscience topics, from brain-to-brain communication systems to thought-controlled limbs and brain-mapping technologies. High-impact photos and explanatory graphics and charts bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 610 ABRSummary: What is it about the human brain that has allowed Homo sapiens to take charge of the planet? Is it a question of brain size, cognitive abilities, speech, or perhaps something else? Bringing together diverse elements ranging from the first-ever brain scan of a chimpanzee performing a comprehension test to a case study of a brain injury caused by a hand grenade, this program featuring Dr. Susan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This series explores the startling new map of the brain that has emerged from the past decade of neuroscience and shares a revelatory view of this most complicated organ, which now contradicts much of what we previously believed. Narrated by actress Blair Brown, the series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary and cutting-edge animation. Viewers will not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECAmen, Daniel G.
Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life," one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, comes a practical, prescriptive step-by-step program that reveals ho to boost one's brain in order to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011