Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life
| VU Course ID: | PS110 |
| Curriculum: | 10 lectures |
| Fee: | FREE |
| Textbooks: |
None |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Instructor: | Peggy Mason |
| Provider: | University of Chicago |
Recordable:
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Yes / 2 CEUs |
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starts Class starts Feb 23 2015
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Course Description
In this free course from University of Chicago, offered at Coursera, you’ll learn how the nervous system produces behavior, how you use your brain every day, and how neuroscience explains common problems afflicting people today. This 10-week course is aimed at anyone interested in how the nervous system works. It opens by introducing basic neuroanatomy, neurodevelopment and mechanisms of neural communication. You’ll examine how injury and disease of different types and in different locations can alter a person's life. You will then use your understanding of fundamental neuroanatomy and physiology to examine how we perceive the outside world; how we act in the work volitionally or emotionally;; how our nervous system allows us to live; and how cognition operates to make us the human individuals that we are.
| Unit 1 – | Introduction: Neurons, Development and Organization of the Human Brain |
| Unit 2 – | Neural Communication: Information Transfer in the Nervous System |
| Unit 3 – | Neuroanatomy, Strokes, and the Blood-Brain Barrier |
| Unit 4 – | Perception and Vision |
| Unit 5 – | Hearing |
| Unit 6 – | The Vestibular System: Balance and Gaze |
| Unit 7 – | Voluntary Movement: From Stumbling to Simon Says |
| Unit 8 – | Voluntary Movement: Coordination, Chunking and Habit |
| Unit 9 – | Homeostasis: Thermoregulation, Sleep, and Eating |
| Unit 10 – | Executive Function: Memory, Language, Playing Well With Others |
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