The neurological basis of reward
digital file Black & White Sound 1975 24:51
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Summary: Here, T.J. Crow, from the Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park Hospital, talks from a neurological perspective, about how both biological and psychological rewards affect the brain. 5 segments.
Title number: 18373
LSA ID: LSA/21530
Description: Segment 1 Crow discusses the theories of philosopher Jeremy Bentham which leads him into an introduction to his lecture on the neurological basis of reward. A short film is shown in which a rat, with electrodes implanted in its brain is shown to receive a reward when it presses a lever. Crow explains how this works, using a diagram of the rat's brain. He then talks about drugs which have an effect on the neuronal reward mechanisms. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:47:00 Length: 00:05:47:00 Segment 2 Crow talks about the Falck-Hillarp technique which studies reward systems in the rat's brain. Further diagrams show sections through the brain to reveal the dopamine neurones. Time start: 00:05:47:00 Time end: 00:10:21:00 Length: 00:04:34:00 Segment 3 Crow continues to look at cross sections of the brain in diagrams. He then discusses an experiment on electrically stimulated rats, comparing levels of noradrenaline. Time start: 00:10:21:00 Time end: 00:16:05:00 Length: 00:05:54:00 Segment 4 A further film clip is shown of a rat with electrodes implanted in its brain, again, stimulating reward when it presses a lever. The rat has electrodes first in its dopamine centres, then in the locus coeruleus. Time start: 00:16:05:00 Time end: 00:21:19:00 Length: 00:05:14:00
Credits: Presented by Dr TJ Crow, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital. Produced by Trevor A Scott.
Further information: This video is one of more than 120 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.
Keywords: Neurology; Psychology; Reward
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; University of London
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