Marcia McKinley-Pace wrote:
I'm preparing for next semester and am trying to figure out how I want
to present brain parts and functions. In the past, I have lectured
(briefly) about this and then asked the class to play neuroscientist and
identify damaged brain parts from Sacks' work. The
Marcia Listers,
Scientific American Frontiers also has some excellent videos and segments
illustrating split brain, role of the amgydala, and other brain anatomy and
functioning stuff.
Also, if you like Oliver Sachs, you can show parts of "Awakenings "and "At
First Sight" for further lively
Because this is a phone reference there's probably only a 50-50 chance that
you'll be called.
That being said, I tell the sugar-coated truth, i.e., that this is a
student who does well when she puts her mind to a task and that she has
excellent potential. With that info and with the student's
I agree wholeheartedly with Jeff. The Brain Mind series are fabulous.
I especially recommend "Clive Waring: Life without memory" for discussing
hippocampal function. If students don't get turned on by that they're
brain dead.
Neurological deficits are inherently fascinating. Any prof
Title: TV Special repeat: Is it a Boy or a Girl?
Hi TIPSters,
Several TIPSpersons and I have been anxiously awaiting the repeat of Is it a boy or a girl? It's a Discovery Channel special about children born with ambiguous genitalia. One of my students saw it and remembered that, among other
