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Brain Science

Brain Science

BRAIN TELLS US EVERYTHING, THE!

Envisage that after about six minutes of recording, you can tell clients why they came for treatment! The precision of the ClinicalQ (an EEG assessment calculated on a clinical data base) is quite remarkable in identifying clinical conditions and some neurological as well as experiential causes. Once identified, neurotherapy (including neurofeedback and braindriving) is the treatment of choice for dysregulated brain activity. Therapies appropriate for treating the experiential factors also are discussed.

Fun Facts: Challenging the brain with new skills and ideas increases the low frequency waves in the brain. Some of these predominantly low frequency brain waves may cause depression especially in the left prefrontal cortex.

DVD / 2017 / 66 minutes

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BRAINS IN DANGER

For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders. This international scientific investigation reveals how chemicals in objects surrounding us affect our brain, and especially those of fetuses.

In California, autism cases have increased by 600%. 44% of European children have an iodine deficiency - an element essential to brain development.

Today we are subjected to chemical elements harmful to the brain daily; those "endocrine disruptors" are present in lots of home and beauty products as well as food.

The estimated cost of those obstacles to brain development rises to EUR159 billion per year in Europe.

DVD / 2017 / 52 minutes

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DYSLEXIA: A BEAUTIFUL BRAIN

Dyslexia: A Beautiful Brain is a documentary showing what it is like to have dyslexia, the struggles, the challenges and what it is actually doing inside the brain when a dyslexic tries to read, write, speak, or interpret what they hear. The film weaves in students perspectives from 7 years old to 18, as well as teachers who specialize in educating students who have challenges when reading and writing. Tufts University Neuroscientist, Dr. Maryanne Wolf helps the audience understand the processing problems that dyslexics have. There are wonderful animated illustrates that give a sneak peak into the mind's eye of a dyslexic.

DVD / 2017 / 52 minutes

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LIVING LIFE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR BRAIN!

How can you apply this new science of the brain to make the most out of YOUR life? We'll discuss how you might think about better exploiting this great neurological gift - your 'plastic' brain - to better sustain brain health, and potentially, to grow or rejuvenate your personal brain power.

Fun Facts: Negative learning powerfully contributes to functional decline such as looking down while walking. The goal of a healthy brain is safely knowing that you can deal with the unexpected. Always make your life goals, and make them interesting and useful.

DVD / 2017 / 64 minutes

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MANAGING YOUR BRAIN HEALTH

We now know that the decline in performance abilities in 'normal aging' and in the progression of most neurological and psychiatric maladies is substantially a product of natural, progressive "negative" brain remodeling. New strategies have been developed to index - and, if necessary, improve - organic brain function and health. We'll learn how these strategies are expected to lead to a transformative "managed brain health" era for psychiatric and neurological medicine.

DVD / 2017 / 75 minutes

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MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN: THE LIFE & SCIENCE OF DR. MARIAN DIAMOND

Directed by Catherine Ryan, Gary Weimberg

Looks at the life and work of Dr. Marian Diamond, one of the founders of modern neuroscience, and an inspirational teacher to thousands at UC Berkeley and to millions on YouTube.

Meet Dr. Marian Diamond as she pulls a human brain out of a hatbox and lovingly enumerates its astonishing qualities. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE BRAIN follows this remarkable woman over a 5-year period and introduces the viewer to both her many scientific accomplishments and the warm, funny, and thoroughly charming woman herself, who describes her 60-year career researching the human brain as "pure joy."

As one of the founders of modern neuroscience, Dr. Diamond challenged orthodoxy and changed our understanding of the brain--its plasticity, its response to enrichment and to experiences that shape both development and aging. Her groundbreaking work is all the more remarkable because it began during an era when so few women entered science at all. Shouted at from the back of the conference hall by noteworthy male academics as she presented her research, and disparaged in the scientific journals, Dr. Diamond simply did the work and followed where her curiosity led her, bringing about a paradigm shift in the process. As she points out, in order to get to the answers that matter, you have to start by asking the right questions.

DVD / 2017 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adults) / 57 minutes

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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO YOUR BRAIN'S PLASTICITY, A

There's been a revolution in brain science that provides us with a new understanding of the basis of origin of our unique individual person-hoods. That science also helps us understand 'what goes wrong' in an accounting for developmental or acquired neurological impairments, loss, and 'disease.' We'll review this science on the path to considering some aspects of its practical importance for you and for human societies. Fun Facts: Plasticity is bi-directional. We can train our brain to improve or degrade our abilities. Remember what wires together fires together, so we want to change our wiring for accuracy and fidelity; power and strength and complexity and richness.

DVD / 2017 / 61 minutes

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INTELLIGENCE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

According to several IQ studies, our intelligence is declining as populations grow. Why should that be? And is IQ an adequate measure of human intelligence - the amazing faculty that has enabled us to achieve dominion over nature? Scientists from many different fields are scrutinizing our intelligence, be it innate (genetic) or acquired through environment, education and learning processes, in an attempt to determine what intelligence really is.

Meanwhile, others are working on ways of boosting our brain power. An experiment in which human brain cells were grafted onto the brains of mice found that their abilities increased tenfold. This and other similar discoveries are sparking new ideas for ways to improve our abilities. Via a fascinating journey through the maze of the human brain, we learn that there are several forms of human intelligence, among which creativity appears to be one of the most unusual and the most uniquely human.

DVD / 2016 / 52 minutes

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KEY TO CONSCIOUSNESS, THE: A JOURNEY INTO THE STUFF OF THOUGHTS

What is consciousness? Where do our thoughts come from? What are the connections between mind and matter? Even today, no one knows the answers. Human consciousness - the small inner voice that says "I", through which we apprehend the world, is one of the greatest mysteries in contemporary science.

Scientists believe that our thoughts and feelings do not spring from a disembodied mind but from the body, and specifically from one particular organ: the brain. As far as they are concerned, our every least whim and all our choices are written into the tangle of neurons in a code that has yet to be deciphered. But that still does not tell us where decisions are made. Is it possible to identify the physical seat of free will? How does our consciousness influence the workings of our brain? From the dawning of consciousness in newborn babies via dreams, states of coma and meditation, this documentary takes us on an exploration of the extraordinary enigma of consciousness.

DVD / 2016 / 52 minutes

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BRAIN POWER

Human consciousness, which is unique in the living world, has remained a mystery of divine origin for thousands of years. But today, recent and spectacular scientific progress (from medical imagery to quantum physics) is starting to shed light on it.

I think therefore I am. But who thinks inside of us? Who are we? This film takes us on a journey beyond our brains. Like conscience, human intelligence has propelled Man to the peak of evolution, giving him the opportunity to dominate the world. And yet today, intelligence would see to have broken down. Average IQ is dropping. Through this investigation into the nature of intelligence and multiple intelligences, we discover the reasons for this breakdown, and how we can give our intelligence another boost, thanks to scientific progress, including brain cell transplants.

2 DVDs / 2015 / 104 minutes

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IS YOUR BRAIN MALE OR FEMALE?

For centuries men and women seem to have baffled each other. Are boys really better at maths and spatial skills? Are girls better at empathy? What makes us have different strengths and weaknesses? And are these innate or are they shaped by cultural influences?

Dr Alice Roberts and Dr Michael Mosley investigate the latest neuroimaging techniques and behavioural studies to determine whether men and women are wired differently. If they are, could this research be harnessed to improve the lives of both men and women?

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2014 / 50 minutes

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BRAIN DOCTORS: AGAINST THE ODDS

At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, mum Adele has just heard the devastating news from brain surgeon Jay Jayamohan that her three-year-old daughter Cerys has a malignant brain cancer. This film follows Cerys's battle and shows other patients who are battling similar odds.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes

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BRAIN DOCTORS: EMERGENCY

This episode, we meet the families of two patients whose lives are hanging in that balance. Tracey, a midwife and mother of two, lies comatose with massive head injuries suffered in a car crash. Her husband John escaped the crash relatively unscathed and now sits constantly by her bed, willing her to open her eyes.

Across the ward lies Martin, struck down by a mysterious virus which has rendered him unconscious and unable to breathe for himself. Every day, his wife of ten years, Lisa, checks for signs Martin is coming back to life. For doctors and patients, the neurosurgery department is a physically and mentally gruelling place to be.
Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes

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BRAIN DOCTORS: THE DECISION

The parents of two year old Raj face an unimaginable dilemma. Ray has a brain tumour which, untreated, will kill him within months. Doctors at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital can operate but the surgery carries a high risk of paralysis.

At the hospital's Obstetrics Department, a pregnant mother faces a comparable issue. Her unborn baby has serious spinabifida - and now an ultrasound scan shows what might be a tumour on his back. She must decide whether to continue with the pregnancy.

We meet 19-year-old Jack, who Jay has been treating for eight years. Jack was born with Crouzon syndrome, a serious genetic abnormality which affects every cell in his body. He has had, so far, 27 operations. We meet him during yet another hospital stay - this time for 11 weeks - as Jay and his colleagues battle to control a leak of cerebral fluid from the back of Jack's head.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes

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DARA O'BRIAIN'S SCIENCE CLUB 1: BRAIN

A lively look at the science of the brain

This is the place to explore the latest groundbreaking ideas that will change the world we live in. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Dara O Briain's Science Club combines lively studio discussions featuring some of the world's most eminent scientists, with exciting experiments, studio demonstrations and film reports of cutting-edge science stories. Brain explores the ideas that are transforming our lives and our understanding of the world.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2013 / 50 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE ADVANCED - MEDICINE: REVOLUTIONARY BRAIN SURGERY

Medical professionals all over the world are constantly looking for better ways to treat patients and diseases. In this program, doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center treat a patient with a type of cancer that affects the area of the brain that controls function. Glioblastomas are aggressive and often fatal malignant brain tumors. To combat the disease, revolutionary medical treatments are beginning to save lives all over the world. Doctors found that when the procedure called an awake craniotomy was used, they are able to remove the tumor from the brain without damage to the language areas. During an awake craniotomy, surgeons can converse with the patient to hear if the language areas of the brain are being affected before removing the tumor, thus preserving very important parts of the brain as much as possible. In addition, the medical staff is able to create a vaccine from the extracted tumor. After the tumor is harvested during surgery, certain proteins from the cells are purified. These proteins are then concentrated and given back to the patient in simple injections. The purpose of this tumor vaccine is to spark the patient's immune systems to fight the tumor and attack it to keep it from coming back. This issue also goes in depth about how the human brain works, the different regions, and specifically the Wernicke's area, which is one of the two parts that is linked to speech.

DVD / 2013 / (High School or above) / 15 minutes

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PATHS OF READING

How do our brains carry out the process of reading? A professor emeritus guides us through this fascinating exploration of a high-precision neural mechanism.

The film structures itself around a central question we ask as an enigma: how to reconcile the cultural singularity that is reading, developed recently by our single species, with the slow pace of genetic evolution, and therefore with the fixity of brain biology?

Stanislas Dehaene proposed an astonishing scientific hypothesis: neuronal recycling. In other words, our cultural inventions, such as reading, resulting in the diversion of pre-existing brain function.

DVD / 2012 / 52 minutes

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RUPTURE: LIVING WITH MY BROKEN BRAIN

Directed and produced by Hugh Hudson

In 2007, former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo suffered a brain hemorrhage. The experience inspired her to partner with her husband to create a film about survivors of brain injuries, giving a sense of hope to those isolated by the disease. As she guides audiences through her personal journey of recovery, Maryam speaks with others who have suffered brain injury, including Robert McCrum, former literary editor of The Observer, jazz guitarist Pat Martino, and music producer Quincy Jones.

The film features the testimony of eminent neurosurgeons and neuroscientists including Professor V.S. Ramachandran and Baroness Susan Greenfield along with firsthand stories that celebrate human life force and the will to survive.

DVD / 2012 / 70 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE - PHYSIOLOGY: THE MEDICAL SERIES - BRAIN, MEMORY & SIGHT

We can remember the smell of an apple or a math formula. All these memories are stored in the three-pound organ inside our skull called the brain. This program looks at how memories are made - how we remember things and how the human brain makes sense of all the information constantly flowing into it and stored in it. Scientists believe that memories are broken up and stored in complex networks of brain cells and put back together when they are recalled. Discover how learning is linked to memory and how the sense of smell may enhance learning.

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 4-9) / 13 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE - PHYSIOLOGY: THE MEDICAL SERIES - THE BRAIN: THE FIRST COMPUTER

The human brain is often compared to a computer. Both receive input, process information and produce output. However the three-pound organ inside your head is far more complex, powerful and capable than even the most advanced computer. This program makes the comparison to show students what is known - and what researchers have yet to discover - about how our brains process and store information. Students will learn how the brain uses chemical messengers to control the body and some ways scientists are learning more about our amazing brains!

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 4-9) / 12 minutes

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SHOW ME SCIENCE - PHYSIOLOGY: THE MEDICAL SERIES - THE HISTORY OF THE BRAIN

The extraordinary complexity and power of the human brain gives each of us the capability to do things other creatures cannot, such as read and write. This program introduces brain physiology and function and explains what makes the human brain so exceptional. It shows how brains have advanced in complexity from the arrangement of a few nerve cells in the earliest and simplest creatures to the complexity of the mammalian brain.

DVD / 2012 / (Grades 4-9) / 12 minutes

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THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW: ABOUT BRAINS

about Brains takes a look at how the brain works.

Discover the inner workings of your brain, Einstein's biggest mistake, nature's mutations, the birth of the world's strongest material and the future of travel. Fast moving with a strong entertainment slant, each programme poses - and answers - the key questions that you need to know the answers to. Each question and answer has the potential to live as a stand-alone online clip - for example on YouTube - enabling viral marketing for the television entity.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2012 / 45 minutes

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INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY: BUILDING YOUR BRAIN

In Building Your Brain, discover the beautiful, alien world within us all

Revealing the workings of the human body on a scale never seen before, this is the most comprehensive story yet of how our unique and amazing bodies make us who we are. In Building Your Brain, breathtaking CGI takes viewers inside the body to show how different parts of our anatomy have evolved and why. Extraordinary scientific images of the body reveal its most unusual and bizarre workings in minute detail.

Human behaviour is shown in super-slow motion, revealing elements of ourselves that we are completely unaware of, while footage of people around the world illustrates the universality of our experiences and how some can do amazing things, live in incredible places and push their physiology to the limits, all thanks to the highly evolved machine that makes we humans the world's most successful animal.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2011 / 50 minutes

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INTO THE MIND: BROKEN BRAINS

Dr Michael Mosley concludes his documentary series with Broken Brains, exploring the brutal history of experimental psychology by looking at how experiments on abnormal brains have revealed the workings of the normal brain.

He meets remarkable individuals like Karen, who suffered from a rare condition - alien hand syndrome - which meant that one of her hands constantly attacked her. And Julia, who seems to have recovered from her stroke - until experiments reveal she is unable to recall the name of any object.

Michael explores the case of an amnesiac known for years only by his initials, HM, who became the most studied individual in the history of psychology and whose extraordinary case opened a window on how our memory works. He visits the multi-million dollar centre which has been set up since HM died to map his unique brain down to the level of an individual neuron.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2011 / 50 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND MEMORY

Professor Joel Benington focuses on Brain Development and Memory, discussing how memory is created and stored.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Neuron Competition; 3 - Memory.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - HIGHER ORDER SENSORY PROCESSING

Professor Joel Benington discusses pathways of information: how the brain feels, hears and sees; plus higher order sensory processing. Lecture topics include: neuronatomy, somatosensory processing, auditory and visual processing.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Color & Vision; 3 - Neuro-Transmitters.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - HOW NEURONS COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER

Professor Joel Benington delves into the fascinating and intriguing process of the brain turning reality into perception.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Sodium & Potassium Ion Channels; 3 - Glia Brain Cells.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - HOW NEURONS WORK

Professor Joel Benington helps clarify the complex role that neurons and chemicals play in the structure and function of the human brain.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Periodic Table of Elements; 3 - Proteins.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - HOW WE SEE AND HEAR

Professor Joel Benington expands on his in-depth investigation of the brain and human senses. In this program his focus is on how the brain functions in helping humans see and hear.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Vision; 3 - Color Blindness.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - LANGUAGE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Professor Joel Benington concludes his 10-part telecourse by observing how we communicate, with a specific focus on spoken language; plus a discussion on consciousness and the brain.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Schizophrenia; 3 - Enigma.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION TO BASIC BRAIN FUNCTIONS

Professor Joel Benington introduces the brain and provides viewers with an in-depth overview to basic brain functions.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Demystifying Science; 3 - Lamettrie.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - SLEEP AND WAKING; PLEASURE AND PAIN

Professor Joel Benington discusses sleep, waking and the biological clock; then vigilance, arousal and attention to detail; lastly, pleasure and pain, motivation, Parkinsonism, schizophrenia and addiction.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Unconsciousness; 3 - Dopamine; 4 - Reward; 5 - Alcohol; 6 - Emotion.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - THE AGING BRAIN: LEFT-BRAIN/RIGHT BRAIN DIFFERENCES

Professor Joel Benington explores how the human brain ages and the left-brain/right-brain dichotomy.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Memory; 3 - Left-Brain/Right-Brain.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BRAIN, THE: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - TOUCH, TASTE AND SMELL

Professor Joel Benington "comes to his senses," focusing on how the brain affects a human's touch, taste and smell.

CHAPTERS: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Senses; 3 - Smell.

DVD / 2010 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 90 minutes

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BREAKING THE WALL OF BLINDNESS: HOW NEUROENGINEERING CAN RELINK BRAIN AND BODY

This 2010 Falling Walls video lecture features Professor Yael Hanein, who is "on her way to building a nanotechnology model of the human brain that could reveal the essence of thought processes" (Tel Aviv University). Hanein's research focuses on the restoration of vision affected by retinal degeneration. Named Outstanding Young Scientist at Summer Davos of the InterAcademy Panel/World Economic Forum in 2009, Hanein is not only the vice president at Nano Retina, an Israeli start-up company developing a retinal implant, but she also codirects the Tel Aviv University nano- and micro-central characterization and fabrication facility, servicing over 30 Tel Aviv University research groups and over 20 companies. Her work "may give sight to blind eyes merging retinal nerves with electrodes to stimulate cell growth" (ScienceDaily).

DVD / 2010 / 14 minutes

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BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF, THE: THE PLASTICITY OF THE BRAIN

Directed by Mike Sheerin

For centuries the human brain has been thought of as incapable of fundamental change. People suffering from neurological defects, brain damage or strokes were usually written-off as hopeless cases. But recent and continuing research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery.The human brain, as we are now quickly learning, has a remarkable ability to change itself - in fact, even to rewire itself.

Psychiatrist and author, Dr. Norman Doidge travels across North America to meet some of the pioneering researchers who made revolutionary discoveries about the plasticity of the human brain. He also visits with people, once thought of as incurable, who are now living normal lives. Known in scientific circles as "neuroplasticity," this radical new approach to the brain provides an incredible way to bring the human brain back to life. The impact is just beginning to be felt in research, medical and rehabilitation circles.

DVD / 2009 / 44 minutes

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BLOOD & GUTS: A HISTORY OF SURGERY - INTO THE BRAIN

Lunchtime lobotomies, microchips implanted inside bulls' brains, presidential daughters, a lifesaving piece of household wire and CIA-funded research

Into the Brain is the story of brain surgery. More than any other surgery, operating on the brain, from misguided psychosurgery to pioneering neurosurgery, has taught us who we are. But the most complex organ in the body hides its secrets well, and surgeons have ended up travelling some dark roads on their extraordinary journey to map the human mind.

The brain is our most complex organ. One hundred years ago, cutting into the brain was a terrifying prospect for both patient and surgeon. Harvey Cushing, the so-called "father of neurosurgery", revolutionised brain surgery. Before him, it was little more than bloody butchery which killed around 70% of patients.

Michael travels to Yale University to see Cushing's archive: a collection of over 1,000 perfectly preserved human brains. The infamous Walter Freeman was responsible for the lobotomisation of thousands of individuals. His brutal operations - often using ice picks driven into the brain through the eye socket - left many patients with life-long psychiatric problems.

Michael meets one of Freeman's victims, 59-year-old Howard Dully, who was lobotomised at the age of 12. Michael also takes part in a "mind control" experiment at University College London to help surgeons map the brain. Using "transcranial magnetic stimulation" or TMS, the experiment asks how it will affect Michael's ability to perform even the most simple of tasks.

Finally, Into the Brain shows an extraordinary operation on 28-year-old florist Kathryn, who has a malformed blood vessel in her brain. Incredibly, Kathryn must remain fully conscious as her brain is operated on to ensure no damage is caused. This remarkable operation would have been impossible without some of the pioneering surgeons of the past.

Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.

DVD / 2008 / 50 minutes

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MIND IN MOTION

Our exploration will lead us into the depths of the brain and to the very sources of consciousness, for a fascinating glimpse into the process of thought.

How can we decide whether a person in a coma is likely to return to consciousness? How can a person see with the tongue? Why do amputees experience phantom sensations in missing limbs? What do we have in common with the fruit fly? What are the effects of meditation on the brain?

Scientific answers to these questions and others are now within our reach, thanks to stunning new research in the neurosciences. It focuses on the brain, our mental mechanisms, the connection between body and mind. Why we need to represent ourselves and others consciously in order to survive?

In our quest for answers, we have met some remarkable scientists - high-ranking pioneers who are innovative yet modest. They share their discoveries and questions with us while stressing that it is vitally importance for our society to try and understand why we have conscious brains. The story of their search, across North America and Europe, will be vividly told through evocative visuals and original imagery from new brain exploration technology.

DVD / 2008 / 52 minutes

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NERVOUS SYSTEM, THE: NEURONS, NETWORKS, AND THE HUMAN BRAIN

Nervous System DVD begins by examining the structure and function of neurons; resting, action and post-synaptic potentials; and reflexes and neural networks. The peripheral, somatic, autonomic, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are introduced before looking at the central nervous system. After describing spinal cord structure and function the program then examines the human brain including the medulla, pons, and cerebellum of the hindbrain; the reticular formation of the midbrain; and the thalamus, limbic system and cerebral cortex of the forebrain.

DVD / 2008 / 39 minutes

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BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM: YOUR INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

This program explores the brain and nervous system, using the analogy of computers and the Internet. Topics discussed include electrical impulses and how nerve messages travel; parts of the brain and their functions; how the brain and spinal cord are protected; the senses; and diseases, drugs, and their effects on the brain and nervous system.

DVD / 1998 / 31 minutes

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