Neuroscience

A working understanding of how the brain actually works at the level of mechanism — neurons firing, chemicals crossing synapses, regions specializing, circuits adapting. The trunk takes you from a single cell's electrical signal up through brain anatomy, sensation, movement, plasticity, memory, sleep, and emotion; clusters dive into molecular signaling, the neurochemical systems, sensory neuroscience, plasticity and repair, the cognitive brain, the diseased brain, and the tools that let us see any of it.

13 lessons

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Unit 1
Neuroscience
A working understanding of how the brain actually works at the level of mechanism — neurons firing, chemicals crossing synapses, regions specializing, circuits adapting. The trunk takes you from a single cell's electrical signal up through brain anatomy, sensation, movement, plasticity, memory, sleep, and emotion; clusters dive into molecular signaling, the neurochemical systems, sensory neuroscience, plasticity and repair, the cognitive brain, the diseased brain, and the tools that let us see any of it.
13 lessons
1. What Neuroscience Studies
2. The Neuron and Its Supporting Cast
3. The Action Potential
4. The Synapse — Where Neurons Talk
5. Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators
6. A Functional Tour of the Brain
7. How the Brain Builds Reality — Sensory Systems
8. The Brain in Motion — The Motor System
9. Neuroplasticity — The Brain That Rewires Itself
10. Memory in the Brain
11. Sleep and the Brain
12. The Emotional and Motivated Brain
13. Neuromyths vs Neuroscience

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1 unit: Neuroscience.

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