Neuroscience

Featured Neuroscience Resources

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  Lecture

  Decoding the Autism Puzzle

  (58 min 05 sec) Over the past decade, the application of advanced DNA sequencing techniques has greatly increased our understanding of the genetic basis of autism.
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  Lecture

  Sizing Up the Brain Gene By Gene

  (59 min 32 sec) Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology have led to a better understanding of the many genes that play a role in brain development.
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  Lecture

  Making Your Mind: Molecules, Motion, and Memory

  What is mind? Can molecular biology help us understand mental function?
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  Click & Learn

  Electrical Activity of Neurons

  Measuring neuronal activity, generating action potentials, and recording the firing of individual neurons.
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  Click & Learn

  Neural Control of Walking and Running

  Different gaits employed by animals and how the nervous system is able to switch between them.
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  Animation

  Molecular Mechanism of Synaptic Function

  (01 min 09 sec) Electrical and chemical signals are used by neurons to communicate with one another at contact points called synapses.
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  Animation

  Blocking motor neuron synapses

  (03 min 28 sec) Multiple cone snail toxins attack different molecules of the nervous system and cause paralysis.
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  Virtual Lab

  Neurophysiology Virtual Lab

  In this virtual lab, you will record electrical activities of individual neurons, identify by response to stimuli, and use dyes to visualize their morphology.
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  Lecture

  Mapping Memory in the Brain

  (58 min 29 sec) The history of localization of function in the brain, and research that led to the understanding of localization of memory.