What do you do when your body’s built-in mechanism for survival goes into overdrive? Find out in this program that explains recent scientific findings about panic disorder, and shows how one patient deals with the panic attacks he’s experienced for over 20 years.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Beating Bacteria: A User’s Guide
This humorous cross-curricula program shows students how harmful bacteria can hide – and grow – in even the most clean-looking of environments.
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Postpartum Depression
Not all new mothers experience the joys of motherhood ? postpartum depression can affect mother, baby and the entire family. This program presents signs of the disorder, explains treatment, and shows how one mother coped and recovered.
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Binge Drinking
A growing issue among adolescents is binge drinking. What is binge drinking, who is likely to be involved in binge drinking and what are the effects and consequences of this behavior are all questions answered in this program. Geoff Munro, the Director of the Australian Drug Foundation’s Community Alcohol Action Network describes the effects of alcohol in the body and the consequences of alcohol addiction. Also included are views from young people about their attitudes towards binge drinking, some warning signs for detecting alcohol addiction in friends and strategies for reducing alcohol consumption and drinking responsibly.
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Psychosomatic Disorder
The body and mind are so interconnected that they can often work together to make you ill. This program discusses the often misunderstood psychosomatic disorder and how it manifests itself in different ways. It also reveals how one patient and his doctor are treating this mind-body illness.
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Biology Fieldwork One
This program shows students how to complete the practical fieldwork needed to investigate a local inland ecosystem.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
After many distressing years of hiding her disorder, one OCD sufferer explains how behaviour therapy has helped her. This program discusses the signs and symptoms of the obsessive-compulsive disorder and explains some of the brain functions and possible causes.
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Biology Fieldwork Two
We join a group of students as they investigate a rocky shore ecosystem. As well as the collection and interpretation of the data, we also investigate a number of important aspects of the ecosystem.
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
People suffering from this disorder are often referred to as psychopaths, and they can be found in all walks of life. This program illustrates the symptoms of this vicious disorder and details the difficulties of working with people suffering from it. It provides insight into the life of one man as he struggles with anti-social personality disorder.
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Biomechanics
The human body performs a large range of movements every day. Elite sports people perform even more complex movements in the most efficient ways possible with the input from sports scientists known as biomechanists. Biomechanics is the study of how the physical laws of mechanics apply to human movement. This program clearly investigates the basic concepts of movement and applies these to human performance. The program provides strong links with the associated areas of: Velocity, Force, Inertia, Moment of Inertia, Acceleration, Momentum; Conservation of Momentum; Summation of Momentum, Impulse, Elasticity, Accuracy and Flattening the arc, Friction, Levers, Types of motion, Torque, Flight Trajectory, Spin and Balance and Stability.