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In this lesson, you will learn about the connectome, the collective system of neural pathways in an organism, with a closer look at the neurons, synapses, and connections of particular species. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 6:48
Speaker: : Marcus Ghosh

This lesson delves into the human nervous system and the immense cellular, connectomic, and functional sophistication therein. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 8:41
Speaker: : Marcus Ghosh

This lesson describes spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), a biological process that adjusts the strength of connections between neurons in the brain, and how one can implement or mimic this process in a computational model. You will also find links for practical exercises at the bottom of this page. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:50
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

In this lesson, you will learn more about some of the issues inherent in modeling neural spikes, approaches to ameliorate these problems, and the pros and cons of these approaches. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:31
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

 In this lesson, you will learn about some of the many methods to train spiking neural networks (SNNs) with either no attempt to use gradients, or only use gradients in a limited or constrained way. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:14
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

In this lesson, you will learn how to train spiking neural networks (SNNs) with a surrogate gradient method. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 11:23
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

In this lesson, you will hear about some of the open issues in the field of neuroscience, as well as a discussion about whether neuroscience works, and how can we know?

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 6:54
Speaker: : Marcus Ghosh

This lesson provides an introduction to modeling single neurons, as well as stability analysis of neural models.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:26:06
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson continues a thorough description of the concepts, theories, and methods involved in the modeling of single neurons. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:25:38
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

In this lesson you will learn about fundamental neural phenomena such as oscillations and bursting, and the effects these have on cortical networks. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:24:30
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson continues discussing properties of neural oscillations and networks. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:31:57
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

In this lecture, you will learn about rules governing coupled oscillators, neural synchrony in networks, and theoretical assumptions underlying current understanding.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:26:02
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson provides a continued discussion and characterization of coupled oscillators. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:24:44
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson gives an overview of modeling neurons based on firing rate. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:26:42
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson characterizes the pattern generation observed in visual system hallucinations.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:20:42
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson gives an introduction to stability analysis of neural models.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:26:06
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson continues from the previous lectures, providing introduction to stability analysis of neural models.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:25:38
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

In this lesson, you will learn about phenomena of neural populations such as synchrony, oscillations, and bursting.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:24:30
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson continues from the previous lecture, giving an overview of various neural phenomena such as oscillations and bursting. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:31:57
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout

This lesson provides more context around weakly coupled oscillators.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:26:02
Speaker: : Bard Ermentrout