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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

This lesson builds upon previous lectures in this series, providing an overview of coupled oscillators.

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

In this lesson, you will learn about neuronal models based on their spike rate. 

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

In this lesson, you will learn about neural activity pattern generation in visual system hallucinations.

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

From the retina to the superior colliculus, the lateral geniculate nucleus into primary visual cortex and beyond, this lecture gives a tour of the mammalian visual system highlighting the Nobel-prize winning discoveries of Hubel & Wiesel.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:31
Speaker: : Clay Reid

From Universal Turing Machines to McCulloch-Pitts and Hopfield associative memory networks, this lecture explains what is meant by computation.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 55:27
Speaker: : Christof Koch

In this lesson you will learn about ion channels and the movement of ions across the cell membrane, one of the key mechanisms underlying neuronal communication. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 25:51
Speaker: : Carl Petersen

This lecture covers visualizing extracellular neurotransmitter dynamics

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 23:20

This lesson goes over the basic mechanisms of neural synapses, the space between neurons where signals may be transmitted. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 7:03
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

This lesson discusses a gripping neuroscientific question: why have neurons developed the discrete action potential, or spike, as a principle method of communication? 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 9:34
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

This lecture consists of the second half of the introduction to signal transduction, here focusing on cell receptors and signalling cascades.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 41:38

In this lesson, you will learn about GABAergic interneurons and local inhibition on the circuit level.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 16:27
Speaker: : Carl Petersen

This lecture gives an introduction to the types of glial cells, homeostasis (influence of cerebral blood flow and influence on neurons), insulation and protection of axons (myelin sheath; nodes of Ranvier), microglia and reactions of the CNS to injury.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 40:32

This lecture covers the history of behaviorism and the ultimate challenge to behaviorism. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:19:08

This lecture covers various learning theories.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:00:42