Biology and Human Behavior : the Neurological Origins of Individuality

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Compact discs.
Course no. 1597.
12 lectures.
Includes lecture notes, outlines, glossary and diagrams.
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.
Lectures delivered by Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University.
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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