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Lecture 7 – Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller) Stefan Heller is trying to create inexpensive ear drops that can cure deafness. In this short talk, Heller describes how his team of researchers at Stanford University is transplanting stem cells into the ear to "regenerate" damaged hearing cells. Watch it on [...] Lecture 6 – Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson) Stanford University’s Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. Knutson’s research sheds new light on how individuals make complex financial decisions, and offers new ways for alleviating schizophrenia. Watch it on Academic Earth Related posts Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: Evolution and Rationality [...] Lecture 5 – Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen) Kwabena Boahen is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient computers. In this short demo, Boahen describes how his Brains in Silicon lab at Stanford University has created computer chips with "synapses" and "neurons" — and how these [...] Lecture 4 – Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth) Karl Deisseroth is pioneering bold new treatments for depression and other psychiatric diseases. By sending pulses of light into the brain, Deisseroth can control neural activity with remarkable precision. In this short talk, Deisseroth gives an thoughtful and awe-inspiring overview of his Stanford University lab’s groundbreaking [...] Lecture 3 – Brain-Computer Interfaces Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. In this short talk, Shenoy describes how his team of Stanford researchers has built a system that achieves typing at 15 words-per-minute, just by "thinking about it". Watch it on [...] Lecture 2 – Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell) Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working together to treat the many dimensions of blindness: retinal imaging, neural connections, and social psychology.
Lecture 1 – Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond) Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University) is building a "wiring diagram" for the brain. By bridging the gap between individual synapses and whole-brain learning & memory, Raymond’s research offers new insights and strategies for medical rehabilitation and K-12 education. Watch it on Academic Earth Related [...] Lecture 10 – Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality This lecture introduces students to the study of psychology from an evolutionary perspective, the idea that like the body, natural selection has shaped the development of the human mind. Prominent arguments for and against the theory of natural selection and its relationship to human psychology are [...] Lecture 7 – Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory This lecture finishes the discussion of language by briefly reviewing two additional topics: communication systems in non-human primates and other animals, and the relationship between language and thought. The majority of this lecture is then spent on introducing students to [...] Lecture: Yale: Paul Bloom: The Development of Thought Lecture 5 – What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children [...]
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