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Finding reliable, current health information can be difficult. This guide will help start your health research with links to authoritative, dependable resources.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this lecture that unpacks the accuracy of your memories, learn how information is encoded, stored, and retrieved in the brain; examine how Alzheimer's disease and amnesia affect the brain's ability to remember; and explore the "Seven Sins of Memory," including absentmindedness, memory blocking, and misattribution.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover how drug companies sometimes develop a drug first, and only then identify a disease the drug can address (think restless legs syndrome or chronic dry eye). Is the media helping us focus on our biggest health challenges, or pulling our attention over to the newest problems, problems potentially driven by pharmaceutical marketing?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You're on an expedition in Antarctica. You're diagnosed with a problem that requires immediate emergency surgery, and there's only one person who can perform it: you. Use this real-life scenario from the Soviet Union's Sixth Antarctic Expedition in 1961 as an intriguing window into how doctors diagnose and treat this problem in less extreme, 21st-century circumstances.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Begin the course by debunking one of the most fundamental myths about the human brain. Along the way, discover how our brains are shaped by evolution and experience, which neurons are responsible for self-awareness and motor coordination, and why the brain is still very much a work in progress.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
We've all been fooled by a magic trick at one point or another. But we rarely stop to think about how magicians are simply manipulating pre-existing shortcomings in our minds. Here, explore some of the neurological principles magicians rely on, including selective attention, inattention blindness, and change blindness.
Publisher
Osborn Sloan and Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lecture four, alongside lectures five and six, focuses on behaviour change after ABI. It commences with understanding ways behaviour may change after ABI, defines challenging behaviour / behaviours of concern, and considers why the presence of challenging behaviour is a key reason for poor long-term outcomes. As workers, we can experience emotional reactions to challenging behaviour, which can lead us to judge the person negatively. However, if we...
67) The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media: Episode 9,We Share Our World with Toxins
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While toxins are around us all the time and require a nuanced, sophisticated approach to understand, short and memorable headlines sell. Follow the fascinating media coverage of baby-food toxins and the new water system in Flint, MI, to discover the reasons for conflicting headlines and stories. Who got it right? And who got it so very wrong?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
These small ectoparasites have emerged in force and have created a new public health crisis. Discover why tick-borne diseases are so easy to contract but difficult to diagnose, and get the facts about Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Benaroch will lead you through the exercise of finding solid, credible answers to a question on all of our minds: What’s the best way to stay young and healthy? He’ll illustrate how the skeptic’s tools you’ve learned to use when reading or viewing media reports will help you answer this or any other health question. You’ll be surprised where the research takes you!
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tina suffers from attacks of dizziness and is certain she has hypoglycemia, but doctors should never fall into the mental trap of starting a diagnosis with a false assumption. In this intriguing lecture, Dr. Benaroch shows you how physicians make expert diagnoses when one specific test isn't available.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In an ideal world, all medications would be available and affordable to those who need them. But the minutiae of prescription drug pricing can create a significant barrier. Learn about the unique role of the pharmacy benefit manager, how pharmaceutical companies work to keep generics out of the marketplace, and how gifts given by drug reps still influence doctors’ prescribing habits.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Focus on the central subject of natural supplements. First, investigate the natural products industry and how to determine the quality and purity of supplements you may use. Then study key supplements, including probiotics, selenium, and vitamin D, and their effectiveness in treatment and prevention of ulcerative colitis, diarrhea, and cancer.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Often grouped together with other mindful practices, Dr. Bauer dedicates an entire lecture to moving meditation, including yoga, tai chi, and qi gong. Although these methods have existed for thousands of years, the scientific benefits of integrating these practices into modern Western healing have just recently begun to emerge. Dr. Bauer reviews this research and provides examples of how these techniques could help you.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dive into the fascinating stories behind three notorious diseases: bubonic plague, malaria, and polio. See how scientists of the time were able to discover the causes of these diseases and develop effective treatments. Also, learn why infectious diseases are still a pressing issue for our society, despite our advances in science and technology..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Diabetes is the result of a continuum that begins with the preconditions of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Learn how all of these conditions are directly linked to lifestyle, and how to prevent and even reverse them through the kinds of foods you eat, healthy sleep patterns, and consistent exercise.
Publisher
reFrame Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This film is an adaptation of the closing Plenary Lecture of McGill University's 2012 International Congress on Palliative Care - delivered by Dr. Balfour Mount, the father of North American Palliative Care. Dr. Mount explores the challenges that define suffering and define our quality of life. He argues for a health care paradigm shift from the existing disease-oriented, science-based medical model to the more comprehensive perspective of WHOLE PERSON...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Discover how a young man's painful calves lead to a surprising diagnosis. As you'll learn, sometimes even the most uncommon of complaints can signify the presence of a fairly common illness. You'll also discover why you should never underestimate the seriousness of this particular diagnosis.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Using your newly acquired infectious disease knowledge, look into the future and discern what the next pandemic might be—one that would reach all continents quickly, be difficult to treat, be extremely deadly, and perhaps threaten the very survival of the human race!.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
More than any other component of health, dieting is the area most prone to myths and misinformation. Here, evaluate the veracity of everything from the benefits of low-carb and low-fat diets to the use of weight-loss supplements and intense workouts to the nature of "good" and "bad" fats.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Consider some of the potential roots (and purposes) of dreams and how neuroscientists study them. While dreams continue to remain mysterious, some theories posit that dreams play a role in consolidating your memory, and that they can be driven by emotional events (including traumatic ones).
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