Welcome and Introductory Remarks & Introduction to Brain Disorders

Dean Marc Kastner, MIT School of Science Mriganka Sur, PhD, FRS 2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and ...

Parkinson's Disease: Current State and Hope for the Future

Myriam Heiman, PhD2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and cognitive scientists study the brain and mind ...

New Frontiers in Psychiatric Disorders Research 

Guoping Feng, PhD2011 An Afternoon with MIT's Brains on Brains Symposium MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. Our world-renowned neuroscientists and cognitive scientists study the brain and mind ...

Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs IV

03/29/2011 3:30 PM KresgeKatrin Wehrheim, Associate Professor of Mathematics, MIT; Sallie Chisholm, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Biology, MIT; Nancy Kanwisher, '80, PhD '86, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, ...

An On-Off Switch for Anxiety

In this video, a mouse with a fiberoptic cable implanted into his brain explores a four-arm maze. The animal has been genetically engineered to express light-sensitive proteins in a specific part of the amygdala, a brain region linked to fear. Mice are naturally afraid of open spaces, and at ...

Unsupervised learning for perceptrons

Gradient learning of trajectories

Final Review

Final Exam Review Part II

Self-excitation and global inhibition

REINFORCE algorithms & Hedonistic neurons

Reinforcement learning. Hedonistic synapses

Neural network models of the retina

The capacity of the perceptron

Backpropagation applications