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NEUROSCIENCE SERIES NEW RELEASE THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN: AN INTRODUCTION TO AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
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. 33 minutes. $250. View a sample clip from this film.
ISBN: 1-891340-79-4
UPDATE: Our new film with Dr. Brian Knutson has been completed and we are now shipping prints. The film is divided into segments that answer these questions: "What are emotions?" "Why are emotions?" "Where are emotions?" "When are emotions?" and "What are the implications of this knowledge?" The visual content of the film is quite varied: it includes skydiving footage to illustrate fear and daring concepts, brain graphics that highlight the separate roles of such regions as the amygdalae, nucleus accumbens, and insular cortex in emotions. Also included are amusing animations of a scenario involving meeting a snake in the woods, that illustrate the wired-in emotional reaction, and a more cognitively mediated one. There are also live-action shots of students on the Stanford University campus that further illustrate human emotional reactions to everyday occurrences. Dr. Knutson has been a pioneer at using fMRI technology for research into decision making, using shopping and financial judgments as the basis for his work. His research will be filmed in his laboratory.
GIANTS SERIES IN PRODUCTION WILLIAM JAMES: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST Our upcoming film
on William James will reflect his far reaching interests and the
connections he made between them: issues that are still of relevance
today. After the twentieth century's emphasis on specialization, today
there is more William James was one of the very first American psychologists when he began teaching courses in the field at Harvard in the 1870's. His broad interests in the human condition opened psychology to a wide realm of studies. He brought to the United States ideas and methods form the German experimental psychologists like Hermann von Helmholz, studying the physiology of perception. James went on to write about the neuroscience of emotions. But his thinking was intrigued by introspection: he also had an early interest in analytic psychology, writing a review of an early paper of Sigmund Freud's in 1894 and meeting Freud and Karl Jung on their 1909 visit to the United States. His writings on moral and religious issues from a psychological point of view are still actively discussed today. This film will combine an account of James' life and work with current live action footage that highlights the contemporary psychological research and practice. The film's educational consultant will be John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University.
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interest in cross-discipline studies and viewing human behavior with a
variety of lenses, something that James was very comfortable with. The
film will serve as an introduction to the expanse of topics covered in
current psychology courses, including neuroscience, cognition, emotion,
motivation, personality and social psychology.|
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