Psychoanalyst.tv

Yawns are contagious (cockatoo)
Yawns are contagious (girl makes horse yawn)
Yawning is truly contagious (puppy)
Mei Lan & Lun Lun on a Lazy Summer Day (pandas make each other yawn)
Parelli - Making Rani yawn(girl makes horse yawn)
Yawning ferrets
Smart horse: Gryphon yawns (horse yawns on command)
(Discussion at Neurological Correlates)

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Meet the Super Cow via NatGeo
Cows bred for large muscle mass and discussion of genetics, including myostatin gene. N.b., myostatin antagonists are being developed by biopharma companies for people.

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Keeping Kids Healthy: Recognizing Borderline Personality Disorder in ChildrenKeeping Kids Healthy: Recognizing Borderline Personality Disorder in Children
Montefiore Medical Center in Association with WNET
26 min 13 sec - Sep 19, 2006
www.keepingkidshealthy.org
Could your child’s explosiveness and impulsive behavior be a sign of “borderline personality disorder?” Are you often confronted with … all » intense rages, hostility, [...]

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Crossword Puzzle Champion Completes Puzzle In Record Time!!!
From: chrisbarrett

 Tyler Hinman, 23, four time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament Champion, completes a Monday New York Times Crossword Puzzle in about 2 minutes. Filmed March 2, 2008
http://www.TylerHinman.com

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FASD: A Family Experience
From: RESphenantic
I made this short documentary in March of 2006 for a school project. We could choose any topic, so I chose my adopted sisters, both of whom have disorders in the FASD spectrum. I hope my film is informative (on a few levels) and I’d like to take [...]

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Eric Schmidt at HIMSS
From: Google
Eric Schmidt gives the keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference in Orlando, on February 28, 2008.
Swivelchair comment: Doctor problems with patients’ use of the internet for health knowledge, and the issue of authority.

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Brain Mind and Behavior: Emotions and Health
From: uctelevision

 Take a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction. On this edition, Jason Satterfiled, director of behavioral medicine at UCSF, explores the emotions and health and the promise of [...]

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
TED 2006:
About this Talk
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that

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In My Language
From: silentmiaow
HT: Wired story:
The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know
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Jim Coan and the Hand Holding Experiment
From: uvamagazine
Coan and others seek to detect and chart how moods and emotions are embodied in the brain, to map the nexus where the cognitive and the affective meet. Emotion, Coan says, is an organized set of physiological and behavioral responses to environmental stimuli. His [...]

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Karie Shutdown

From: TriLevelMan:

My name is John and I have the amazing ability to function at three different levels at the same time!
Name: John
I am Lakota Sioux. I like to play the drums. I work at a native plant nursery. And I help my Mom raise awareness about Fetal Alcohol [...]

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From CIO.com:
How good are you at interpreting facial expressions? Take our test and find out.

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In My Mind
From: olinkalex via Youtube

This Video helps you understand the mind of an Autistic person (I have Aspergers) I show you how I behave through the way I learn by using cartoon pictures I drew on paints. Ths video also won 2nd place in the 2007 East End Student Film Project
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Schizophrenia: Heather
“Heather shows all the signs of class schizophrenia.”
From: Neuroslicer

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Ex-Jehovah’s Witness, Therapist discusses MIND CONTROL
From the description:
Interview with Lee Marsh, T.A.S., BA. Hear the rare perspective of this therapist discuss the dynamics of abuse, cult spiritual abuse and mind control, illustrated with her personal experiences. Fascinating, educational, a must see for understanding Jehovah’s Witnesses.
From: exjwvideos via Youtube

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Towards Defining the Autism Phenotype
From the description:
Joseph Piven is a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has studied personality, language, and cognitive characteristics in non-autistic relatives of autistic individuals. He argues that these characteristics are genetically related to autism and are a qualitatively similar but milder expression [...]

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Defining the Mind and Minding the Brain
Dr. Sophia Vinogradov of the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. From the description:

Take a look into our current understanding of the function of the human brain and some of the important diseases that cause nervous system dysfunction. On this edition, Dr. Sophia Vinogradov of the San Francisco Veterans [...]

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Conversations with History: Psychology, Political Understanding, Judith Herman
UCTV: UC Berkeley
55 min 22 sec - Mar 11, 2002
www.uctv.tv
Expert who studied post traumatic stress disorder incident to coercive control — such as political, religious, domestic violence, gangs (about 25:00 starts to discuss what happens to people and what is post traumatic stress disorder)

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Keeping Love Alive
Neuroscientists are probing why some married couples can maintain the spark for years.
By SAM SCHECHNER
WSJ February 8, 2008; Page W1 “Sam Schechner reports on a study looking at the brains of people who claim to have stayed madly in love for over a decade.”

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Dr. Xavier Amador, author of “I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help”
Podium TV
1 hr 51 min 6 sec - Dec 11, 2006
ssns.ca

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