The Good Side of Nightmares
The Good Side of Nightmares
The average person dreams several hundred times a week. Most are about relatives, friends, colleagues and loved ones. Most of the time, nothing special happens - and we tend to forget most dreams. However, once in a while people wake up screaming or sweating from dreams so frightening that ...
The Changing Brain
The Changing Brain
06/13/2003 9:00 AM 3-170Mark Bear, Director, Picower Institute,Picower Professor of Neuroscience; The Picower Center for Learning and Memory; Description: How do our right and left eyes take in two separate streams of visual information and end up with a single view of the world? This ...
The Brain Basis of Human Vision
The Brain Basis of Human Vision
04/26/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Kanwisher, '80, PhD '86, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT; Edmund Bertschinger, Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, MITDescription: Nancy Kanwisher's breakthrough scanning research reveals "a teeny part of an answer to the big question ...
The Brain and Mind
The Brain and Mind
06/12/2003 8:00 AM 3-170Mriganka Sur, Newton Professor in Neuroscience; Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive SciencesDescription: In his kickoff lecture for this series on neuroscience, Sur provides both a current overview of brain models and function, and a peek at his own research. From ...
The Basics of Neurophysiology
The Basics of Neurophysiology
In this lecture we begin reviewing the basics of neurophysiology: ion channels, the passive electrical properties of neurons, equivalent circuit diagrams, and the Nernst equation.
The Art of Science Communication
The Art of Science Communication
10/14/2010 5:30 PM 46Alan Alda, Actor and WriterDescription: You wouldn't know that Alan Alda felt nervous in advance of addressing this audience of neuroscientists. In his trademark style, Alda chats up the crowd like an old friend, sharing anecdotes involving one of his great pursuits: "I ...
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
The Aging Brain: Learning, Memory, and Wisdom
McGovern Institute investigator John Gabrieli discusses the capacity of the human brain to change over the course of a lifetime.
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does
Synapses
Synapses
In this lecture we continue into Neurophysiology focusing on the synaptic connection.
Spring 2012 Picower Lecture
Spring 2012 Picower Lecture with Dr. Eve Marder of Brandeis University
Post Connectome Analyses of Circuit Dynamics: Variability, Modulation and Compensation in a Rhythmic Neuronal Circuit
Sex Battles in the Brain
Sex Battles in the Brain
05/07/2010 10:30 AM 46"3002Catherine Dulac, Harvard UniversityDescription: The expression of certain genes depends on whether they were inherited from the mother or the father, a phenomenon known as imprinting. Catherine Dulac of Harvard University has discovered that a surprisingly large ...