Understanding the Brain

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Free Online Course: Understanding the Brain provided by The Great Courses Plus is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 19 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Understanding the Brain is taught by Jeanette Norden, Ph.D..

Overview
  • 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.

    Topics Covered:

    • 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