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This episode of the Brain Series focuses on two motor disorders: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). ALS is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States.

Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? How can we add years to our lives?

In this intimate and ultimately life-affirming interview, liver surgeon Pauline Chen embraces the subject most doctors try to avoid -- death.

Explores the history of public health, from the plague hospitals of Renaissance Italy to the current and future prospects for global health initiatives, emphasizing the complex biological, cultural and social dimensions of health, sickness and medicine across time and space.

Can lifestyle medicine actually change your health and well-being? In their newest book, UnDo It!, Dean Ornish and his wife Anne present a comprehensive approach to reversing many of the chronic diseases that plague Americans today.

This course will analyze needs of populations, highlighting current major public health problems such as chronic and communicable diseases, environmental hazards of diseases, psychiatric problems and additional diseases…

A discussion with Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine, Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation…

The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918.

This course introduces the concepts of physiological regulation, controlled and integrated by the nervous and endocrine systems. It then examines the muscular, cardiovascular, and renal systems in detail and considers their control through the interaction of nervous activity and hormones.

Dr. Eric Lander, director of genome research at the Whitehead/MIT Institute, talks about the tools of modern genome research that he and his research group have developed…