Includes 4 DVDs of 24 x 30 min. lectures.
Also Includes Course Guidebook.

Includes bibliographical references.

"When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave—from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses. In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are. This course is an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate 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. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Disc 1
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

Disc 2
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

Disc 3
Lecture 13. What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 14. What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 15. Behavior Genetics
Lecture 16. Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
Lecture 17. An Introduction to Ethology
Lecture 18. Neuroethology

Disc 4
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. A Summary

"When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave—from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses. In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are. This course is an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate 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. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work." (Publisher's Website)

DVD CONTENTS:

Disc 1
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

Disc 2
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

Disc 3
Lecture 13. What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 14. What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 15. Behavior Genetics
Lecture 16. Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
Lecture 17. An Introduction to Ethology
Lecture 18. Neuroethology

Disc 4
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. A Summary

GUIDEBOOK CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography
Course Scope

LECTURE GUIDES
Lecture 1: Biology and Behavior - An Introduction
Module I: The Neurobiology of Behavior at the Cellular Level
Lecture 2: The Basic Cells of the Nervous System
Lecture 3: How Two Neurons Communicate
Lecture 4: Learning and Synaptic Plasticity
Module II: The Neurobiology of Behavior at the Systems Level
Lecture 5: The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons
Lecture 6: The Limbic System
Lecture 7: The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Module III: The Neuroendocrinology of Behavior
Lecture 8: The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain
Lecture 9: The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones
Module IV: Evolution and the Neurobiology of Behavior
Lecture 10: The Evolution of Behavior
Lecture 11: The Evolution of Behavior - Some Examples
Lecture 12: Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics
Module V: Molecular Biology, Genetics, and the Neurobiology of Behavior
Lecture 13: What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 14: What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
Lecture 15: Behavior Genetics
Lecture 16: Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
Module VI: The Ethological Context of Brain and Behavior
Lecture 17: An Introduction to Ethology
Lecture 18: Neuroethology
Module VII: Integrating Approaches in Studying the Behavioral Neurobiology of Aggression
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: A Summary

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Glossary
Biographical Notes
Bibliography

DVD.