The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
Jeanette Norden, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Emerita, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, explores how the brain learns and remembers. This video focuses on a discussion of how the brain is organized in general.
These lectures will provide the foundation information necessary to the understanding of the lectures which will follow. A special emphasis will be given to systems in the brain that underlie learning and memory, attention and awareness.
These introductory lectures will be followed by a lecture on how different areas of the brain encode different, specific types of information - from the phone number we need only remember for a few minutes or less to the childhood memories we retain for a lifetime.
We will also address the "mistakes of memory" which give insight as to how the brain actually encodes our life experiences. The last group of lectures in this series will focus on the many clinical conditions that can affect different types of learning and memory.
Lastly, we will focus our discussion on the accumulating evidence that aging need not be associated with significant memory loss. We will discuss advancements in neuroscience that indicate ways to keep your brain healthy as you age.
| 1. Vocabulary and General Concepts of Brain Organization |
| 2. Cellular and Molecular Organization of the Brain |
| 3. Brain Areas Involved in Different Types of Memory |
| 4. What Modern Neuroscience Reveals about What Memory is and isn't |
| 5. Disorders that Affect Memory |
| 6. How to Keep your Memory - and Brain - Healthy and Happy |
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| Brain Story This is a BBC documentary series presented by Susan Greenfield, revealing the basic brain processes that lie behind all aspects of human experience. |
| The Brain Using simple analogies, real-life case studies, and state-of-the-art CGI, this film shows how the brain works, explains the frequent battle between instinct and reason, and unravels the mysteries of memory and decision-making. |
| Brain Power and Brain Health Neuroscience research over the past several decades has revolutionized our understanding of the change processes in the brain that underlie the development and elaboration of our skills and abilities in younger life, and that account for their predictable, progressive decline at an older age. |
| Mapping Memory in the Brain Eric R. Kandel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, probes into the mind to demonstrate how it is much more complex than just a series of processes carried out by the brain. |
| The Neuroscience of Memory Eleanor Maguire draws on evidence from virtual reality, brain imaging and studies of amnesia to show that the consequences of hippocampal damage are even more far-reaching than suspected, robbing us of our past, our imagination and altering our perception of the world. |
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