Online Neuroscience Lectures

· Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins

1. Cortical Self-Organization and Perceptual Learning – Mike Kilgard (PowerPoint slides)

2. Behavioral and neural correlates of semantic processing in rhesus macaques – Yale E. Cohen

3. Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Object Recognition – David Freedman

· McCuistion Program on PBS (Appropriate for non-scientific audiences)

1. Discoveries and Hope for Brain Health DSL/Cable Dial-up

2. A Lifetime of Brain Building DSL/Cable Dial-up

· MIT Lectures (requires Real Player to view)

1. Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall Memory – Susumu

2. The Changing Brain - Mark Bear

3. Architecture of the Brain - Elly Nedivi

4. Vision: Challenges and Prospects - Pawan Sinha

5. 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology Nobel Lecture - Robert Horvitz

6. Cognitive Control: Understanding the Brain's Executive - Earl K. Miller

7. Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Steven Pinker

· Conference on Brain Network Dynamics - 2007

· The Storage and Persistence of Memory – Eric Kandel

· Dana Foundation (Appropriate for non-scientific audiences)

· UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience – Eight years of archived basic and clinical neuroscience talks

1. "Substrates of Rapid Plasticity in Developing Cortex" Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D.

2. "Synaptic Mechanisms for Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Rat Somatosensory Cortex" Dan E. Feldman

· Rice University: Neuroscience Lectures (requires Real Player to view)

1. Cortical Dynamics and Visual Perception" - Charles D. Gilbert

2. "Attention as an Organ System” - Michael I. Posner

3. "The Hippocampus and Declarative Memory: Cognitive Mechanisms and Neural Codes" - Howard Eichenbaum

4. Brain Overview Michael P. Stryker and Huda Zoghbi

· NIH Video Archive: Neuroscience Seminar Series (requires Real Player to view)

1. Plasticity of the Somatosensory System in Mature and Developing Primates - Jon H. Kaas

2. Control of Synapse Number and Strength in Developing Cortical Networks - Gina Turrigiano

3. Postsynaptic Mechanisms of Plasticity - Morgan Sheng

4. Stability and Plasticity in Primate Visual Development - J. Anthony Movshon

5. Molecular Control of Cortical Connectivity - Anirvan Ghosh

6. Functions of Electrical Coupling in Inhibitory Networks of the Neocortex - Barry Connors

7. Prefrontal Cortex and the Neural Basis of Cognition - Earl Miller

8. Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar 'Loops' within the Cerebral Cortex: Motor and Cognitive Circuits - Peter Strick

9. Diversity of GABAergic Neurons and Spike Timing in the Cerebral Cortex - Peter Somogyi

10. Reward Processing in Primate Basal Ganglia and Frontal Cortex - Wolfram Schultz

11. A Thorny Path to Memories: Dendritic Spines, Neurotrophins and their Role in Synaptic Plasticity - Tobias Bonhoeffer

12. Brain Waves and Immune Genes in Brain Wiring During Development - Carla Shatz

13. Neural Mechanisms of Human Cognition: Insights from Brain Imaging Studies - Leslie G. Ungerleider

14. The Dynamic Brain - Terry Sejnowski

15. Homeostatic Regulation of Synaptic Structure and Function - Graeme Davis

16. Nobel Laureates, 2000 - 1) Molecular Biology of Memory and Its Disorders: Some Societal Implications 2) The Neurobiology of Slow Synaptic Transmission - Eric R. Kandel and Paul Greengard

17. The Ingredients of Language - Steven Pinker

18. Know Stroke - Know the Signs - Act in Time

· Others

1. Picower Institute Inaugural Symposium: The Future of the Brain

2. Vega Science Trust

3. Magnetic brain stimulation: what can it tell us about brain function? – Alan Cowey FRS

4. Talk on how brain controls body

5. Royal Society

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