Understanding the Brain

Go inside the most astonishingly complex organ that has ever existed and learn how it works in this engrossing and surprising course on the human brain.

• By This Professor
• 01: Historical Underpinnings of Neuroscience
• 02: Central Nervous System-Gross Organization
• 03: Central Nervous System-Internal Organization
• 04: Central Nervous System-Subdivisions
• 05: Cortex-Lobes and Areas
• 06: Cortex-Sensory, Motor, and Association Areas
• 07: Central Nervous System-Development
• 08: Central Nervous System-Cellular Organization
• 09: Pathways and Synapses
• 10: Neurotransmitters
• 11: Stroke
• 12: The Visual System-The Eye
• 13: The Visual System-The Cortex
• 14: The Auditory System
• 15: The Somatosensory System
• 16: Agnosias
• 17: The Motor System-Voluntary Movement
• 18: The Motor System-Coordinated Movement
• 19: Parkinson's Disease
• 20: Language
• 21: The Limbic System-Anatomy
• 22: The Limbic System-Biochemistry
• 23: Depression
• 24: The Reward System-Anatomy
• 25: The Reward System-Drugs
• 26: Brain Plasticity
• 27: Emotion and Executive Function
• 28: Processing of Negative Emotions-Fear
• 29: Music and the Brain
• 30: Sexual Dimorphism of the Brain
• 31: Sleep and Dreaming
• 32: Consciousness and the Self
• 33: Alzheimer's Disease
• 34: Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
• 35: Wellness and the Brain-Effects of Stress
• 36: Neuroscience-Looking Back and Looking Ahead