Good Brain, Bad Brain: Basics

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Английский
9 h
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  • From www.futurelearn.com
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  • Free Access
  • Бесплатный сертификат
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  • 3 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on 26 марта 2017
  • Ends on 22 апреля 2017

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Course details

Syllabus

This free online course is an introduction to the key concepts of the human brain and is designed for the non-specialist. It gives you basic information and explanations, so that you may better understand your own amazing brain. Understand your own amazing brain We will look at what your brain is made of, how these components are organised and how they function.

This information is helping neuroscientists across the globe understand the brain - and how it is able to do everything from stopping you falling off your bike, to making you feel sad that your football team lost their game, to helping you learn how your brain works. Understand the terminology of neuroscience Like all specialist areas, the field of neuroscience has its own terminology, and often a single word or short phrase can carry a whole paragraph’s meaning.

This course is designed to introduce you to this specialist lexicon and the key biological processes underpinning brain function. The Good Brain, Bad Brain series This course is the first of three in the Good Brain, Bad Brain series. It will help you become familiar and confident with the basics, so you can go on to join: Good Brain, Bad Brain: Parkinson’s Disease Good Brain, Bad Brain: Drug Origins

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

  • Alison Cooper

Platform

FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)

Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.

Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.

FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.

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