NOVA - Season 6 Episode 10
NOVA - Season 6 Episode 10 - Documentary TV Shows 55:14. story about Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would least expect to find them. Endorphins and their component enkephalins are manufactured in the brain, and perform the same painkilling function as analgesics like morphine. NOVA explores some physiological mysteries, such as why acupuncture works, and how placebos can relieve symptoms, and shows how endorphins could revolutionize the treatment of pain, depression, and even schizophrenia.
- 1. Black Tide1979-01-04
- 2. Long Walk Of Fred Young1979-01-11
- 3. A World Of Difference1979-01-18
- 4. Cashing In On The Ocean1979-02-01
- 5. Patterns From The Past1979-02-08
- 6. The Invisible Flame1979-02-22
- 7. The End Of The Rainbow1979-03-01
- 8. The Beersheva Experiment1979-03-08
- 9. Einstein1979-03-15
- 10. The Keys Of Paradise1979-03-29
- 11. A Plague on our Children1979-10-02
- 12. Life on a Silken Thread1979-10-09
- 13. Sweet Solutions1979-10-16
- 14. Race for the Gold1979-10-30
- 15. All Part of the Game1979-11-06
- 16. India: Machinery of Hope1979-11-20
- 17. The Bridge that Spanned the World1979-12-04
- 18. Termites to Telescopes1979-12-11
- 19. Blindness: Five Points of Views1979-12-18
