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[Worth Neuroscience Videos TOC — Topically Organized]

STUDYING THE BRAIN

Segment 1Touching the Brain: Electrically Stimulating the Speech Regions of the Brain

Segment 2fMRI: Unraveling Brain Structure and Function

Segment 3Undergoing an fMRI

THE ETHICS OF CONDUCTING RESEARCH

Segment 4Gene Therapy Research and Applications: Ethical Concerns

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: BRAIN ORGANIZATION AND BRAIN DAMAGE

Segment 5The Frontal Lobe and Higher-Order Planning

Segment 6Seeing the Brain: Traumatic Brain Injury and the MRI

Segment 7Silent Strokes

Segment 8Prefrontal Lobotomy Procedure, 1942

Segment 9Patients Before and After Prefrontal Lobotomy, 1944

THE GENETIC BASIS OF BEHAVIOR

Segment 10The Human Genome Project

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

Segment 11The Making of the Brain

Segment 12Stem Cells

Segment 13The Formation of Neural Networks

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: EARLY LIFE AND CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT

Segment 14Development, Memory, and Familiarity

Segment 15Development and Shape Recognition: Distinguishing Faces from Other Forms

Segment 16The Teenage Brain

PLASTICITY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Segment 17Hydrocephalus Aftermath: The Left Hemisphere and Brain Plasticity

Segment 18Brain “Neglect”: A Consequence of Strokes

Segment 19Stroke: Motor Effects, Rehabilitation, and Brain Plasticity

COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Segment 20Activity, Exercise, and the Brain

Segment 21Neurotransmitters Spring into Action: Linking Placebo Effects to Endorphins

Segment 22Stress Hormones, Aging, and Memory Loss

Segment 23Observing Electrical Activity in the Brain: The Magnetoencephalogram (MEG)

Segment 24Epilepsy and Brain Imaging

THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS

Segment 25The Addictive Effects of Cocaine: Sinking and Recovering

Segment 26The Biology of “Craving”: Cocaine Addiction

VISION AND THE BRAIN

Segment 27Perception and Recall of Faces

Segment 28Blindsight

Segment 29The Temporal Lobe and Visual Sensory Experiences

HEARING, OTHER SENSES, AND THE BRAIN

Segment 30Does Early Music Training Change the Brain?

Segment 31Listening and the Brain: Gender Differences

Segment 32“Phantom Limb” Sensation

Segment 33Autism: A Clinical Picture

Segment 34Sensory Overstimulation: An Insider’s Look at Autism

Segment 35Autism and Early Brain Development

Segment 36Causes of Autism: The Parents’ View

THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT

Segment 37Brain Pathways Working Together: Vision and Hand Posturing

Segment 38The War Against Parkinson’s Disease

WAKEFULNESS AND SLEEP

Segment 39Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Segment 40Treatments for Insomnia

Segment 41Undergoing a Sleep Study

Segment 42Daydreams

BODILY NEEDS: EATING, DRINKING, SEX

Segment 43Measuring Hunger and Pleasure During Hypothalamic Stimulation

Segment 44Natural Appetite Suppressants in the Brain

Segment 45Disgust and the Brain

Segment 46Love, Relating, and Oxytocin

THE BIOLOGY OF EMOTION AND STRESS

Segment 47Childhood Violence: Nature Versus Nurture

Segment 48Aggression and the Brain

Segment 49Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Roles of the Amygdala and Hippocampus

LANGUAGE

Segment 50Age Versus Learning: Language Acquisition by Children Triggers Shifts in Brain Organization

Segment 51Language Impairment in Stroke Victims

Segment 52Speech Deficits After Removal of the Left Hemisphere: Brain Plasticity

Segment 53Reading and the Brain: Learning to Read

Segment 54Dyslexia and the Brain

Segment 55Dyslexia: Clinical Picture and Treatment

Segment 56Phonemic Awareness: A Key to Better Reading Skills

Segment 57Reading and the Brain: Gender Differences

LATERALIZATION

Segment 58The Split Brain: Implications for Cognitive Functioning and Consciousness

Segment 59Learning to Draw by Using the Right Hemisphere of the Brain

Segment 60Handedness: Lefties Versus Righties

THE BIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Segment 61Aging and Normal Memory Loss

Segment 62Diabetes and Memory Impairment

Segment 63Hippocampal Damage: Living with Memory Impairment

Segment 64Severe Anterograde Amnesia: A Clinical Picture

Segment 65Alzheimer’s Disease: A Clinical Picture

Segment 66The Development of Tangles and Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease

Segment 67Alzheimer’s Disease: Structural Changes in the Brain

Segment 68Can the Immune System Be Used to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease?

AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Segment 69Mental Mapping and Insect Brains

Segment 70Consciousness and the Brain: The Emergence of a Scientific Debate

Segment 71Consciousness, Free Will, and the Brain: The Debate Continues

THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MOOD DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

Segment 72Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder: Mimicking Nature

Segment 73Early Electroconvulsive Therapies

Segment 74Modern Electroconvulsive Therapy

Segment 75Hallucinations: A Clinical Picture

Segment 76Schizophrenia, Brain Structure, and Prenatal Development

Segment 77Single-Photon Emission Scan: Comparison of Schizophrenic and Nonschizophrenic Twins

Segment 78MRI Scan: Comparison of Schizophrenic and Nonschizophrenic Twins

Segment 79The Therapeutic Effect of Antipsychotic Drugs

Segment 80Undesired Effects of Conventional Antipsychotic Drugs

ANIMATIONS

Animation 1From Conception to Neurons

Animation 2Neuron Expansion and Migration

Animation 3Neural Networking/Brain Wiring

Animation 4Evolution of the Human Brain

Animation 5Stem Cell Activity

Animation 6Neural Communication Across Synapses

Animation 7Reading and the Brain

Animation 8Brain Areas for Visual Processing

Animation 9Multiple Visual Pathways in the Brain

Animation 10Language Areas of the Brain

Animation 11Fear Pathways in the Brain: The Amygdala

Animation 12Memory and Neuron Activity in the Hippocampus

Animation 13Neurofibrillary Tangles

Animation 14Plaques