Filmakers - Physiological Psychology

Physiological Psychology

17 film(s) found

	Anger: The Emotional Brain This program examines anger, from its primordial roots in self-defense to its expression in modern violence. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	The Brain That Changes Itself Recent research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Doidge meets pioneering scientists who are proving that our brains can be "rewired" so that stroke victims and other brain-injured patients can regain their lost skills. more »
	The Enigma of Sleep This fascinating documentary brings viewers to laboratories in Italy, France, Israel,and Switzerland where researchers are trying to untangle the mysterious working of the brain in order to help those who suffer from these disorders. more »
	Face Value This documentary on facial kinetics begins with a brief history of the field and then reports on current research. more »
	The Family of Chimps This film documents the studies of Dr. Frans de Waal, the internationally known ethologist who based his spectacular book "Chimpanzee Politics" on his unique study at the Arnhem Zoo in Holland. more »
	Fear: The Emotional Brain Fear is the most primal and powerful emotion, from its evolutionary origins in the involuntary fight-or-flight survival instinct, to its essential function as a learning tool today. Part of a four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	Happiness: The Emotional Brain Drawing a distinction between the lasting state of happiness and the pursuit of instant pleasure, the program explores the evolutionary role of happiness, and asks what happens in the brain, and possibly in the genes, that makes some people happy and others sad. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	I Talk to Animals: A Portrait of Samantha Khury Samantha Khury has made a profession of being an animal therapist. She seems to communicate with race horses, goats, dogs and cats whose owners want to discover what is troubling their animals. more »
	In Search of Sleep The insomniac-filmmaker, hasn’t slept like a baby since he was one. He has spent thousands of nights thinking about sleep when he should be sleeping. He decides to get help, meeting with the world’s top sleep doctors and scientists. more »
	Intuition This fascinating program investigates the historical, cultural and modern scientific approach to confirming the existence of our pre-cognitive abilities. Scientific researchers are pushing the science of parapsychology forward and are proving that a correlation exists between physical science and parapsychology. more »
	Left Brain, Right Brain Dr. Norman Geschwind of the Harvard Medical School introduces this fascinating film on hemispheric brain research. more »
	Love: The Emotional Brain This program examines the complexity of the emotion we call love, from the burning desire that can strike suddenly, to the giddy euphoria of falling in love. Part of the four-part series, Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain. more »
	Me, My Brain and I Neuroscientists such as Donald Stuss are now learning about the once-misunderstood frontal lobes of the brain from studying brain-injury patients in depth. more »
	Memory: The Past Imperfect This Nature of Things documentary explores many aspects of memory, such as long and short term memory, hypnosis and amnesia. more »
	Monks in the Laboratory Western researchers are turning to Eastern spiritual practitioners for illumination on the workings of the mind. They want to learn how meditation affects attention and consciousness, and how it controls the emotions. more »
	Passion and Fury: The Emotional Brain Series This four-part series looks at the primal emotions that are generated in the brain and examines how nature and nurture combine to make humans feel and react the way they do. Featured emotions include Anger, Fear, Love, and Happiness. more »
	Sleep and Its Secrets Gives a clear explanation of what happens to us during the unconscious hours of sleep, and how our sleep patterns affect productiveness. more »