Description
Understanding the Brain is a course on how the human brain works, published by The Great Courses Plus online academy. This course provides a clear and engaging exploration of how the human brain works, combining insights from neuroscience, psychology, and biology to explain how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are formed. The course guides students through the structure and function of the brain, showing how neurons communicate, how different regions coordinate complex tasks, and how the brain adapts through learning and experience. The course connects scientific concepts to everyday life and helps students better understand perception, memory, decision-making, and mental health.
“Understanding the Brain,” a 36-session course by award-winning professor Janet Norden of Vanderbilt University, takes you inside this amazing and complex organ and shows you how it works. Combining neuroscience, biology, and psychology, this course will help you understand how we perceive the world through our senses, how we move, how we learn and remember, and how emotions influence our thoughts and actions. Your tour begins with the organization of the central nervous system at the gross, cellular, and molecular levels, then explores in detail how the brain performs a range of tasks—from seeing and sleeping to performing music and creating personal identity. You’ll explore a wide range of exciting topics in neuroscience, and you’ll end up with a deeper understanding of how the brain is organized—and a sense of wonder and appreciation for all it accomplishes.
What you will learn in Understanding the Brain:
- Historical foundations of neuroscience
- Central nervous system – internal organization
- Cerebral cortex – lobes and regions
- Development of the central nervous system
- Pathways and synapses
- Neurotransmitters
- And …
Course specifications
Publisher: The Great Courses Plus
Instructors: Jeanette Norden
Language: English
Level: Introductory to Advanced
Number of Lessons: 36
Duration: 18 hours and 42 minutes
Course topics
Understanding the Brain Prerequisites
None
Pictures
Understanding the Brain introduction video
Installation guide
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Subtitle: None
Quality: 480p
Downloadly link
Rapidgator link
File password (s): www.downloadly.ir
Size
6.8 GB
