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Your Amazing Brain: The Essentials
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(23 ratings)
506 students

Your Amazing Brain: The Essentials

Get to know your most important asset
Created byKevin Wilcoxon
Last updated 6/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Describe the major components of the brain and their function
  • Explain how brain components work together to create thought, feeling, and action
  • Apply what you learn about brain functioning to yourself and others
  • Decide if new brain enhancement methods offer benefits or threats

Course content

10 sections • 10 lectures • 42m total length

  • Introduction1:15

    Say hello to your brain and review course content.

Requirements

  • While there is a vocabulary specific to discussing the brain, it is not necessary to know it in advance, or to memorize it in order to understand course content

Description

In eight richly illustrated presentations, you will move from coarse anatomy into neural networks and all the way down to the genes within your neurons. You will be astounded at how all the parts and processes work together to create mind.

Building a complete picture of the brain, we look at the essential elements of brain function, moving from the comparatively large to the very small. Surprises lurk around every corner. Each presentation begins with a “leading thought” for you to ponder while viewing the video. Afterwards, you can explore additional resources, test and extend your understanding with application questions. 

You will learn about:

  • Anatomy: the major players in brain functioning

  • Blood supply: its intimate interplay with brain cells

  • Neural networks and clusters: the mind comes to life

  • Neurons and glia: the brain's worker bees

  • Brainwaves: Masses of neurons working together

  • Neurotransmitters: Magic molecules that make neuronal communication possible

  • Genetics: An active third level of organization

  • Manipulating the brain: New frontiers of chemical, electrical, magnetic, and optical interventions … plus bio- and neurofeedback to improve brain functioning


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in the details of the human brain without the minute details of textbooks
  • Anyone wishing to understand their most important asset

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