Damir's Brain World: Functional Systems

Personality refers to all individual characteristics in the regularly recurring expression of a person's behavior and experience. But how does this personality develop? Is it a predisposition or rather an acquired ability? Research clearly shows that both are true. From genetics to epigenetic modulation, which is shaped not least by prenatal and early postnatal development, it is learning and environmental experience that ensure that people develop an increasingly stable personality structure over the course of their lives.

In this video series, Damir del Monte explores the question of how a person's personality becomes anchored in their brain. Based on the assumption that a person's psyche and personality develop in inseparable unity with their brain, he traces this development and looks at the phenomenon of personality from a neurobiological perspective.

The lecture "Neurobiology 1" guides you through the four-level model, which was developed by Roth, Cierpka & Strüber and is presented here in a very special way. In the soon to follow lecture "Neurobiology 2", the six basic psychoneuronal systems (stress processing system, attachment system, self-soothing system, evaluation and reward system, impulse inhibition system, system for sense of reality and risk assessment) are presented and their development, which varies greatly over time, is traced. These two concepts provide a deep insight into the neurobiological foundations of human development and personality.

Course length: 1 hour and 17 minutes.

Further content will soon be added to the course.