Learn the steps you can take to optimize your health before you become pregnant. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34247]

Find out what tests your provider will order and why when you are pregnant. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34364]

Erik Jorgensen discusses breakthroughs in imaging the process of chemical signaling that occurs at synapses. Series: "Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind" [Science] [Show ID: 33288]

Getting ready for labor is both exciting and intimidating. Find out what to expect as you prepare to meet your baby. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34365]

Jamie Ward examines the relationship between autism and synaesthesia, and the characteristics shared by these two cognitive anomalies. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 32444]

We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel's Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making this performance of a holiday favorite an often-heard rarity. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34406]

Dr. Chambers is a professor of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and Director of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD and Rady Children's Hospital. She is a perinatal epidemiologist, whose research is focused on environmental exposures in pregnancy and child health outcomes, including birth defects. In this talk she explores the need for better data on medication safety for pregnancy and breast-feeding. Series: "Wellbeing " [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 33937]

Chinese-American composer Qingqing Wang celebrates this nation of immigrants in her stunning composition, the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34405]

Olivier George researches addiction at the Scripps Research Institute. He describes the effects of drugs on the brain, including alcohol, nicotine, cocaine and opioids; why some people, but not others, develop an addiction; and highlights new therapeutic strategies to fight addiction. Series: "Saturday Science at Scripps Research " [Science] [Show ID: 34070]

The December 2018 concert teases our sense of memory. We know Messiah very well, but few know that Mozart re-scored Handel's Messiah for a much larger orchestra, making this performance an often-heard rarity. Co-concertmaster David Buckley is soloist in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific African-American composer that made her long career in Chicago, where her music was championed by the Chicago Symphony in the 1930s. Our collective musical memory is intimately combined with African-American music. Let's always remember that. And let's remember that we are a nation of immigrants, as we celebrate with the stunning music of Chinese-American composer Qingqing Wang in the 2018 Thomas Nee Commission. Series: "La Jolla Symphony & Chorus" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 34003]