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Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Neuroscience Courses Critical Thinking Courses Human Nature Courses Human Behavior Courses Scientific Research Courses

Course Description

Overview

<p>Join an acclaimed neurobiologist and award-winning professor for a surprising, amusing, and undeniably fascinating study of what makes you YOU by going to the front lines of scientific research to provide a new perspective on the supposedly quirky nature of being ourselves.</p>

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: What's So Special about Being Human?
  • 02: Junk-Food Monkeys
  • 03: The Burden of Being Burden-Free
  • 04: Bugs in the Brain
  • 05: Poverty's Remains
  • 06: Why Are Dreams Dreamlike?
  • 07: The Pleasures and Pains of "Maybe"
  • 08: How the Other Half Heals
  • 09: Why We Want the Bodies Back
  • 10: Anatomy of a Bad Mood
  • 11: This Is Your Brain on Metaphors
  • 12: Sushi and Middle Age

Taught by

Robert Sapolsky

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