Understanding the Brain

Understanding the Brain « Series from 2025

Series from 2025

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Genres: Documentary

Understanding the Brain takes you inside the astonishingly complex brain and shows you how it works, from the gross level of its organization to the molecular level of how cells communicate.

With its combination of neurology, biology, and psychology, this course helps you understand how perception, movement, learning and memory, emotion, and so much more.

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Historical Underpinnings of Neuroscience

Central Nervous System—Gross Organization

Central Nervous System—Internal Organization

Central Nervous System—Subdivisions

Cortex—Lobes and Areas

Cortex—Sensory, Motor, and Association Areas

Central Nervous System—Development

Central Nervous System—Cellular Organization

Pathways and Synapses

Neurotransmitters

Stroke

The Visual System—The Eye

The Visual System—The Cortex

The Auditory System

The Somatosensory System

Agnosias

The Motor System—Voluntary Movement

The Motor System—Coordinated Movement

Parkinson's Disease

Language

The Limbic System—Anatomy

The Limbic System—Biochemistry

Depression

The Reward System—Anatomy

The Reward System—Drugs