Journey to the Centres of the Brain (5 Parts)

Synopsis: The 165th Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, in which Dr Susan Greenfield examines the workings of the brain.
1: How what we do, think, feel and experience is related to electrical signals travelling to and from the brain.
2: How people have studied the brain, from the Victorian craze of interpreting the bumps on the skull to the latest images of the brain at work.
3: How the brain handles all the signals streaming in from the body’s sensors.
4: How the brain is shaped and changed from before birth to old age.
5: How children master language.
Series: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, The: Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 60 min.
Year of production: 1994
Availability: Sale; 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) series
Notes: Broadcast on BBC 2 daily from 28 Dec 1994.
Subjects: Medical sciences; Psychology
Keywords: brain; language development; neuropsychology

Producer

Richard Melman; William Woollard

Contributor

Caroline van den Brul

Cast

Susan Greenfield

Title: Electric ape, The
Synopsis: 1: How what we do, think, feel and experience is related to electrical signals travelling to and from the brain.
Title: Through a glass darkly
Synopsis: 2: How people have studied the brain, from the Victorian craze of interpreting the bumps on the skull to the latest images of the brain at work.
Title: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Synopsis: 3: How the brain handles all the signals streaming in from the body's sensors.
Title: Mind’s I, The
Synopsis: 4: How the brain is shaped and changed from before birth to old age.
Title: Seven ages of the brain, The
Synopsis: 5: How children master language.

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