Teacher Resources (Audio)
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D Minor - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Virtuoso violinist Keir GoGwilt is the featured soloist in Robert Schumann's vibrant "Violin Concerto in D Minor." Once rescued from an early undeserved obscurity, this piece quickly became one of t…
00:30:33 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Searching for Autism in our Social Brain
Biological anthropologist Katerina Semendeferi describes how the human brain's extraordinary powers of social cognition may predispose only humans to conditions like autism and how she aids the searc…
00:10:05 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier: One Byte at a Time
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) is a special structure in the body that helps to protect the brain from unwanted toxins and germs. Unfortunately, this barrier can also make it extremely difficult for t…
00:53:54 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
Rossini's Overture to William Tell - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
Rossini's 1829 opera "William Tell" is rarely performed today, but its Overture lives on as one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. The Overture is essentially an instrumental sui…
00:13:00 |
Wed 01 Jan 2020
Meet John Doe Discussion with Victoria Riskin
America’s pre-WWII anxieties, Depression-era economic disparity, and the potential for positive social movements arise in this conversation about Frank Capra (director) and Robert Riskin’s (screenwri…
00:39:18 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
Exploring the Earth Under the Sea: Over 50 Years of Scientific Seafloor Drilling
Scientific drill ships allow scientists access to some of Earth's most challenging environments, collecting data and samples of sediment, rock, fluids and living organisms from below the seafloor. Jo…
00:58:26 |
Mon 30 Dec 2019
Price's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major - La Jolla Symphony and Chorus
In the 2018/2019 season the La Jolla Symphony performed Florence Price's "Violin Concerto No. 2," and inaugurates their 2019/20120 season with Price's "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major." Florence Pr…
00:29:46 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Gifts of the Storyteller with Brenda Stevenson - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Because there is not much in the way of documentary evidence of …
00:59:05 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Where is My Mother? Uncovering Mechanisms of Neglect in the Maternal Brain - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Danielle Stolzenberg
In 2017 alone, an estimated 674,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect in the United States and over 1,000 of these children died from maltreatment. Mothers were the perpetrators in 69% of th…
00:17:20 |
Sun 15 Dec 2019
The Effects of Early Psychosocial Deprivation on Brain-Behavioral Development: Findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Charles Nelson
Experience is the engine that drives much of postnatal brain development. When children are deprived of key (i.e., experience-expected) experiences, particularly during critical periods of developmen…
00:19:38 |
Sun 15 Dec 2019
Deprivation of Nutrition as a Factor in Human Cognitive Evolution - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Marcus Pembrey
Adequate vitamins and minerals are essential for normal cognitive development. Marcus Pembrey (University College London) uses iodine as an example. Severe iodine deficiency is a known cause of learn…
00:18:53 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Resilience Processes in Development - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Ann Masten
Ann Masten (University of Minnesota) discusses the meaning of resilience from a developmental perspective, highlighting the significance of findings from studies of extreme adversity in childhood for…
00:20:16 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Developmental Amnesia - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
In modern humans, an exquisite cognitive ability has evolved that enables mental time travel, the ability to mentally travel back in time and re-experience a personal event from the past that is no l…
00:21:49 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Discover Magazine Top Ten Science Achievement for 2019: Discovery of Complex Neural Signals in Brain Organoids
A short summary of one of Discover Magazine's top-ten most significant science achievements of 2019 - the discovery of complex neural signals emerging in brain organoids by Alysson Muotri's lab at UC…
00:07:46 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
The Resilient Brain: Epigenetics Stress and the Lifecourse - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Bruce McEwen
The brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation to stress because it perceives and determines what is threatening, as well as the behavioral and physiological responses to the stressor. The h…
00:24:58 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Feral Children: Two Living Examples and a Little Neurology -- CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Douglas Candland
The question of what is learned, which is innate, and how the two relate is at the heart of 2,000 years and more of the 4,000 reports of feral children. Douglas Candland offers his knowledge of two …
00:19:00 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
Maturational Constraints on Learning - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Elissa Newport
Our ability to learn languages fully and fluently changes over age. Young children are remarkable in learning languages so well – often much better than adults. Elissa Newport (Georgetown University)…
00:23:46 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Charles A. Nelson Faraneh Vargha-Khadem Ann Masten
This CARTA symposium addresses the influences of environment and culture on the emergence of the human mind. Charles Nelson (Boston Childrens Hospital/Harvard Medical School) The Effects of Early Psy…
00:59:17 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
Individual Differences in Language Development and Disorders - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Paula Tallal
Language co-evolved with the human brain throughout the evolution of Homo sapiens. Paula Tallal (Salk Institute) focuses on longitudinal studies that show that the efficiency with which foundational …
00:18:54 |
Thu 05 Dec 2019
CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Danielle Stolzenberg Marcus Pembrey Bruce McEwen
This CARTA symposium addresses the influences of environment and culture on the emergence of the human mind. Danielle Stolzenberg (UC Davis) Where is My Mother? Uncovering Mechanisms of Neglect in th…
00:58:45 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
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