Classes

Designer Neurons – How Cell Types are Generated in the Nervous System and the Laboratory

Year offered: 2013

Laura Magnotti / Medical School / magnotti@fas.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfp, Thursdays 7 – 8:30 p.m., Robinson 106 The derivation of stem cells from a human embryo ten years ago ignited an explosion of scientific and public interest. This tutorial will explore the current...

Dopamine

Year offered: 2013

S. Barak Caine / Medical School / barak@mclean.harvard.edu & Morgane Thomsen / Medical School *Neurobiology 95hfh, Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., Sever 105 A Parkinson’s victim regains control of her body with l-dopa. A schizophrenic man paralyzed by fear & hallucinations is freed...

The Neural Basis of Working Memory

Year offered: 2013

Kaushik Ghose / Medical School / Kaushik_Ghose@hms.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfw, Tuesdays 7 – 8:30 p.m., Lamont 240 / first week meeting Wednesday, September 5th, 7-8:30 p.m., BioLabs 1058 Many daily tasks, such as taking lecture notes, require us to quickly store...

Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression

Year offered: 2013

Kyle Gobrogge / Medical School / Kyle_Gobrogge@hms.harvard.edu & Olga Aleksenko / Medical School *Neurobiology 95hfx, Mondays 4-5:30 p.m., Northwest Building B-104 Have you ever wondered why animals are attracted to the opposite sex, why they attack other animals, or how...

Novel Therapeutics in the Central Nervous System

Year offered: 2013

Catherine Dubreuil / Medical School / catherine_dubreuil@hms.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfd, Wednesdays 4:30 - 6 p.m., Bio Labs 2062/2064 Recent advances have elucidated new non-traditional molecular signaling pathways involved in many disorders and injury paradigms in the...

Perception and Imagination

Year offered: 2013

Justin Junge / Psychology / justinjunge@gmail.com *Psychology 980o, Mondays 4-6 p.m., William James Hall 950 Perception is required to have a mind like yours. How does perceiving work? How are streams of sensory input processed into rich and useful models of the world around...

Seeing Time in the Brain

Year offered: 2013

Patrick Mayo / Medical School / patrick_mayo@hms.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfy, Thursdays 7 – 8:30 p.m., Robinson 107 Time critically shapes our perceptual experience, yet how the brain represents time is poorly understood. This course investigates the experience of time...

Sensation and Perception: Mapping the Touch, Sight, and Sound of Things

Year offered: 2013

Heather Sternshein / Medical School / heather_sternshein@hms.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfs, Tuesdays 7-8:30 p.m., Lamont 230 / first week meeting Tuesday, September 4th, 7:45 – 8:30 p.m., Lamont 230) Our perceptions of the feel, sight, and sound of things relies upon how...

The Visual Sense – Illusions and Reality

Year offered: 2013

Till Hartmann / Medical School / Till@hms.harvard.edu *Neurobiology 95hfv, Tuesdays, 7 – 8:30 p.m., Barker Center 024 / first week meeting Tuesdays, September 4th, 7 – 7:45 p.m., Barker Center 024 Vision is arguably our most dominant sense, but sometimes what we see is not...

Addiction, Choice, and Motivation

Semester: Fall

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Year offered: 2013

Gene M. Heyman / Medical School / gheyman@fas.harvard.edu *Mind, Brain, and Behavior 95, Thursdays 4-6 p.m., Barker Center 024 (McFadden Room) Seeks a comprehensive understanding of addiction and why it has been such a contentious topic. Readings and discussion address (1)...

Conscious States: Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming

Semester: Fall

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Year offered: 2013

Robert S. Stickgold / Medical School / rstickgo@bidmc.harvard.edu and Erin Wamsley / Medical School / ewamsley@bidmc.harvard.edu *Mind, Brain, and Behavior 93 (formerly Psychology 987f), Tuesdays 3-5 p.m. (first meeting September 7th), William James Hall 4 Focuses on waking...

Creativity Research: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students

Semester: Fall

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Year offered: 2013

Shelley Carson / Psychology, carson@wjh.harvard.edu *Mind, Brain, and Behavior 99z, Tuesdays 1-3 p.m., William James Hall 474 Examines human creativity from three perspectives: a) empirical research sources, b) case studies of eminent creative achievers, and c) ourselves as...