Online Neuroscience Lectures

·       Irvine Health Foundation: Neuroscience Lectures

(Appropriate for non-scientific audiences)

1.     The Magic of Memory: Peeking Behind the Brain's Curtain - James McGaugh

2.     Educating the Brain: Lessons from Brain Imaging - John Gabrieli

3.     Drug Addiction: Why the Brain Loses Control - Nora Volkow

4.     Why Did Episodic Memory Evolve? - Endel Tulving

5.     Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think -Marc D. Hauser

6.     Making Connections: Memory in the Brain and Spinal Cord - Oswald Steward

7.     Is Alzheimer's Our Reward for Living Longer? - Dennis Selkoe

8.     Learning Retunes the Brain: The Neural Representation of Experience - Norman Weinberger

9.     Language, Brain and Mind: Early Experience Alters the Perception of Speech - Patricia Kuhl

10. The Aging Brain: Distinguishing Normal and Pathological Memory Loss - Jelle Jolles

·       MIT Lectures

1.     Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall Memory – Susumu

2.     The Changing Brain - Mark Bear

3.     Architecture of the Brain - Elly Nedivi

4.     Vision: Challenges and Prospects - Pawan Sinha

5.     2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology Nobel Lecture - Robert Horvitz

6.     Cognitive Control: Understanding the Brain's Executive - Earl K. Miller

7.     Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Steven Pinker

·       Rice University: Neuroscience Lectures

1.     Cortical Dynamics and Visual Perception" - Charles D. Gilbert

2.      "Attention as an Organ System” - Michael I. Posner

3.     "The Cortical Architecture of Speech Perception in Space and Time" - David Poeppel

4.     "Emotional Synapses" - Joseph E. LeDoux

5.     "The Hippocampus and Declarative Memory: Cognitive Mechanisms and Neural Codes" - Howard Eichenbaum

6.     Brain Overview Michael P. Stryker and Huda Zoghbi

·       UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience

·       NIH Video Archive: Understanding Our Selves - The Science of Cognition

1.     "How the Brain Pays Attention" - Robert Desimone

2.     "The Artful Brain: What Neurology Can Tell Us of Human Nature and the Meaning of Art" - V.S. Ramachandran

3.     "A Decade of Research on Autism: From Mystery to Insight and Hope" - Eric Courchesne

·       NIH Video Archive: Neuroscience Seminar Series

1.     Plasticity of the Somatosensory System in Mature and Developing Primates - Jon H. Kaas

2.     Control of Synapse Number and Strength in Developing Cortical Networks - Gina Turrigiano

3.     Postsynaptic Mechanisms of Plasticity - Morgan Sheng

4.     Stability and Plasticity in Primate Visual Development - J. Anthony Movshon

5.     Molecular Control of Cortical Connectivity - Anirvan Ghosh

6.     Functions of Electrical Coupling in Inhibitory Networks of the Neocortex - Barry Connors

7.     Prefrontal Cortex and the Neural Basis of Cognition - Earl Miller

8.     Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar 'Loops' within the Cerebral Cortex: Motor and Cognitive Circuits - Peter Strick

9.     Diversity of GABAergic Neurons and Spike Timing in the Cerebral Cortex - Peter Somogyi

10. Reward Processing in Primate Basal Ganglia and Frontal Cortex - Wolfram Schultz

11. A Thorny Path to Memories: Dendritic Spines, Neurotrophins and their Role in Synaptic Plasticity  - Tobias Bonhoeffer

12. Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring During Development - Carla Shatz

13. Neural Mechanisms of Human Cognition: Insights from Brain Imaging Studies - Leslie G. Ungerleider

14. The Dynamic Brain - Terry Sejnowski

15. Homeostatic Regulation of Synaptic Structure and Function - Graeme Davis

16. Nobel Laureates, 2000 - 1) Molecular Biology of Memory and Its Disorders: Some Societal Implications 2) The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission - Eric R. Kandel and Paul Greengard