Relevant Courses in Neural Science

G80.2205 Behavioral & Cognitive Neural Science
Team-taught intensive course. Lectures, readings, and laboratory exercises cover neuroanatomy, cognitive neuroscience, learning, memory, and emotion.

G80.2207 Mathematical Tools for Neural Science
Team-taught intensive course. Lecture, readings, and homework exercises cover basic mathematical techniques for analysis and modeling of neural systems. Homework sets are based on the MATLAB software package.

G80.3410001 Neuroeconomics Seminar (identical to G31.3001-06 in Economics course listing)
Invited speakers lecture biweekly on current research on decision-making at the boundaries of neuroscience, economics and psychology. On the week prior to each of the seminars by an invited speaker, graduate students and post-docs present background papers relevant to the ensuing invited presentation. In addition, graduate students taking the course for credit write a paper, derived from their presentation, which suggests an original avenue of Neuroeconomic research. See also description for G31.3001-06 in the Economics section of this page.

V55.0306 Brain and Behavior
Introductory look at the relationship of the brain to behavior, beginning with the basic elements that make up the nervous system and how electrical and chemical signals in the brain work to effect behavior. Using this foundation, we examine how the brain learns and how it creates new behaviors together with the brain mechanisms that are involved in sensory experience, movement, hunger and thirst, sexual behaviors, the experience of emotions, perception and cognition, memory and the brain's plasticity.