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Learning More About Our Brain
In this DVD, physical activity and quality sleep are both vital for healthy bodies. A stoplight is used as a symbol to represent activity, boredom, and sleep.
1. Green Light = Go! Physical activity turns your brain on to learn. Our bodies need movement to stay healthy, but so do our brains!
2. Red Light = Stop! Sleep is vital for your child. How much do they need and why?
3. Yellow Light = Slow down! Doing "nothing", and even being bored, is actually very important to how we process the world around us, and studies suggest, it is vital to creativity! So how can you give your kids good boredom? And why doesn't watching TV count as this "down time"?
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Grades 7-Adult) / 20 minutes
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Our brains are wired to perceive patterns and structure in the world around us. Young children especially need structure to feel secure and be ready to learn. Yet our brains also are continually seeking something new! Too much of the same things causes our brains to get bored - and too many new things can cause confusion or chaos! Discover how to give young children the structure that they need to set up a strong foundation for learning, and how to add new activities and ideas in ways that nurture their hunger for learning.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Grades 7-Adult.) / 20 minutes
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The human brain is fascinating - every movement we make, everything conscious or unconscious stems from our brains. The most critical time for brain development is from birth to age five. What can parents and caregivers of children do to help give those developing brains the best chance for success? Discover how the basic workings of the brain influence our memory and how we learn and what can be done to encourage healthy brain development in children.
The Brain: Developing Memory in Developing Brains includes:
Review main parts of the brain: medulla, cerebellum, thalamus, and amygdala and their functions
Explore the difference between short and long term memory
Discuss practical things parents and caregivers can do to promote learning, such as finger plays, action songs, baby massage, and more
Examine the importance of multi-sensory learning and repetition
Encourage a child's self-confidence through positive affirmations, secure environments, and more
Create a joy of learning by making learning fun
DVD / 2010 / 21 minutes
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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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What defines humans: self-interest and self-focus, or empathy and compassion? While "exogenous" sciences like economy and sociology have alone failed to give an exhaustive definition of human nature, producing partial concepts like the "homo economicus," the answer might still come from an "inside-out" approach. Taking the neurons as the starting point of a journey through psychology, economics, philosophy, and evolutionary anthropology, Tania Singer is one of the few scientists in the world with the right titles to take neurosciences beyond their commonalities. Singer, whose work has received many awards and distinctions, has used drama, film, music, and dance to organize a conference on altruism in economic systems with the Dalai Lama. In this 2010 Falling Walls lecture video, Singer explores the possible trainability and cultivation of empathy and compassion, encouraging us to rediscover and instill important but forgotten human capacities.
DVD / 2009 / 16 minutes
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In the brain and spinal cord, regrowth of injured nerve fibers happens only to a very limited extent. Previously this meant recovery after injury was impossible-but new experimental therapy has allowed regeneration of injured nerve fibers in rats with broken backs, leading to significant recovery of function. In this video from the 2009 Falling Walls Conference, Martin E. Schwab lectures on his discovery that the spinal cord and brain contain the protein Nogo-A, which has a strong inhibitory effect on the growth of nerve fibers. Schwab first purified Nogo-A and then produced function-blocking antibodies which defeat this growth-inhibiting signal. The functions that the rats, mice, and monkeys had lost after spinal cord or brain injuries, such as locomotion, swimming, climbing, and fine hand-reaching movements all returned, indicating that these antibodies could help reduce severe disability in human patients.
DVD / 2009 / 16 minutes
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With Brian Knutson, Ph.D.
Emotions color our everyday individual existence and shape all aspects of our interpersonal and intellectual experiences. In this film, animations and fMRI images introduce students to what we now know about the sub-cortical emotional circuits in the brain and chemical processes that produce our emotional responses and contribute to our decision making and mental health. Live action sequences, both in laboratory and real life situations, illustrate Dr. Knutson's research on risk taking and provide intriguing examples of the factors involved in the interplay of affect and reason in making choices.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 33 minutes
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With Dale Purves, Ph.D.
For thousands of years, humans have asked if we perceive the world accurately through our senses. Because seeing is so important for our functioning in the world, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on current research in cognitive neuroscience, this film explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The production includes an overview of the human visual system, illustrated with animated graphics and live action footage, and it describes, using a series of engaging optical demonstrations, the profound technical and philosophical challenges scientists face in attempting to explain perception. The film ends with a thought provoking discussion of the essential role of human experience in determining what we perceive.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / 37 minutes
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With Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D.
Using the resources of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, this film illustrates the development of neuroscience from its classical reliance on information from brain injuries and autopsies through the new insights discovered with electronic microscopes, EEG equipment, PET scans and MRI machines. Examples of current research that utilize these tools are presented including a study on the role of mirror neurons in autism and the mapping of a woman's several language centers before surgery for a brain tumor. Animations and graphics review the gross anatomy of the brain and the actions of its neurons.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 29 minutes
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With Helen Neville, Ph.D.
The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this film produced at the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon. Three profiles of plasticity are depicted with compelling film sequences of behavioral, MRI and EEG research into the development of visual perception and language acquisition from infancy through old age. A congenitally deaf young woman, hearing university students and lively preschool children participate in controlled studies that illustrate both how neuroscience research is conducted and also how all brains change over time and circumstance. Practical advice for the utilization of sensitive periods and optimal specialization of brain areas make the learning of these concepts meaningful to students
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 27 minutes
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Of all the topics in psychology, there is none more vigorously debated than consciousness. In this program, researchers in neuroscience debate the mystery of consciousness and investigate the dimensions of awareness, circadian rhythms, as well as sleep and dreams. Sleep disorders are also discussed, including recent discoveries about narcolepsy, and the canines that suffer from this mysterious disorder.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 30 minutes
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"Everything psychological, is ultimately biological," says author and researcher David Myers. This lesson plunges into the expanding field of neuroscience and the biology behind behavior, exploring how areas of the brain and brain chemistry can alter mood and cognition. Pioneering researchers discuss their role in the first split-brain surgeries, and a 20 year-old stroke survivor receives a breakthrough treatment to regain use of his affected arm.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 30 minutes
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Recent laboratory research indicates that emotional neglect of children during their first few years of life can have long -term biochemical consequences. In this outstanding documentary, anthropologists from Cornell and Emory Universities and other experts share their findings on the subtle biochemical link between parental attentiveness and the proper development of a child's brain regions that control responses to stress. The program also investigates approaches to care -giving from the perspective of social science and evolutionary biology. Some language may be objectionable.
DVD / 1999 / 47 minutes
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By John Arden
Recent advances in the neurosciences have increased our knowledge of how and why people change. Brain-based therapy synthesizes neuroscience, evidence-based treatment, and attachment theory into a hybrid therapeutic model. Using this model, Arden demonstrates treatment strategies for an African American woman who presents with anxiety. Viewers will develop a new way of conceptualizing the therapeutic process and move beyond the traditional theoretical school approach.
DVD / 60 minutes
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By John Arden
Relying on research in developmental neurobiology, neuroscience, temperament, and attachment studies as well as evidence-based psychotherapeutic practices, Brain-based Therapy with Adolescents addresses the importance of understanding how the brain develops and functions during the actual work of child and adolescent psychotherapy. It offers tips on helping children and adolescents re-regulate such neurodynamically important processes as sleep and the mind-body relationship. Arden works with a teenage boy struggling with social anxiety; he uses his knowledge of the brain to skillfully help the teen understand his emotions and the way the brain works.
DVD / 60 minutes
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By Allen Ivey
Dr. Ivey presents brain basics to a class of counselors and therapists. Those who teach the skills course will find this video's attention attention to microskill implications for neural plasticity and the impact of a positive approach on neurons and neurotransmitters. Social justice implications such as the poisoning of the brain from poverty and abuse are stressed. Counseling using the microskills wellness approach can actually help the client develop new neural networks.
DVD (With Leader Guide) / Approx. 60 minutes
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By Marie-Nathalie Boudoin
How can we make insightful conversations, moments of wisdom, and people's experiences of competency stick in their memories and become usable in their everyday lives? Using playful explanations of brain structures, funny demonstrations of their implications, and live interviews with adults and children, this video offers critical ideas on how to empower people to live to their fullest potential while dealing with the intricacies of their unique lives.
Boudoin works with a female client struggling with anxiety over her workload. She also counsels a young Asian American women dealing with strict family cultural expectations. Applicable to a wide range of issues, the unique ideas in this lively video will assist professionals in accomplishing the original goal of our profession: increasing well-being, optimism, and agency.
DVD / 60 minutes
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By John J. Ratey
Designated as one of America's Best Physicians for seven years, Dr. Ratey takes us through the basics of neuroscience and the brain. You will learn the importance of brain plasticity and how clients learn new thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in the session and develop new neural networks. Perceptual, attentional, and motor systems are basic to memory and emotion. Ratey describes the "social brain" that is deeply impacted by learning and environmental conditions. He presents specifics for improving the brain functioning of our clients. Essential for professionals and students who wish to be on the cutting edge.
DVD / 2 hours
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By Theodore Chapin, Lori Russell-Chapin
Neurofeedback is a therapeutic intervention that uses EEG biofeedback and computer technology. This noninvasive intervention re-regulates neuronal activity through operant conditioning. There are three main NF goals: normalize brain functioning, restore brain efficiency and optimize daily brain performance.
Neurofeedback has shown to be an effective approach in working with a variety of disorders including anxiety, ADHD, migraines and more.
In this video, Drs. Chapin and Russell-Chapin provide an overview of neurofeedback - its definition and uses in the treatment process. They then show how the process works with a client who has entered therapy with a diagnosis of a bi-polar disorder and symptoms of anxiety, poor concentration and forgetfulness.
This is an excellent overview and demonstration of an increasingly popular form of treatment.
DVD / 43 minutes
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