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Hello everyone! Welcome to advanced neurobiology!

Neuroscience is a wonderful branch of science on how our

brain perceives the external world, how our brain thinks,
how our brain responds to the outside of the world, and
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how during disease or aging the neuronal connections
deteriorate. We’re trying to understand the molecular,
cellular nature and the circuitry
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Outcomes of how
nervous system works.

Through this course, you'll have a comprehensive

understanding of basic neuroanatomy, electral signal
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transduction, movement and several diseases in the nervous
system. Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

This advanced neurobiology course is composed of 2 parts

Flexible deadlines
(AdvancedReset
neurobiology I and
deadlines Advanced neurobiology
in accordance Il).
to your schedule.
They are related to each other on the content but not on
scoring or certi cation, so you can choose either or both. It’s

Intermediate
recommended Level
that you take them sequentially and it’s great
if you’ve already acquired a basic understanding of biology.

Thank you for joining us!

Approx. 11 hours to complete
Suggested: 6 hours/week

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WEEK

1
4 hours to complete

Perception: Vision

18 videos (Total 209 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes SEE ALL

18 videos

Welcome to Advanced Neurobiology! 1m

WEEK

1.1.1 Ways to sense the environment-I 10m

1.1.2 Ways to sense the environment-II 11m 2

1.1.3 Ways to sense the environment-III 8m
3 hours to complete

1.1.4 Sensory transduction-I 9m

Perception: Auditory
1.1.5 Sensory transduction-II 9m

1.1.6 Sensory processing 9m

14 videos (Total 146 min), 2 quizzes SEE ALL

1.1.7 Sensory representation in the brain 4m

1.1.8 Vision 15m

14 videos

1.1.9 Single-photon detection 16m

2.1.1 Center-Surround Receptive Field 11m
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1.1.10 Second messengers 8m
2.2.2 The LGN 6m

1.2.1 Review 20m

2.2.3 LGN and the visual pathway 10m 3
1.2.2 Phototransduction-I 15m
2.2.4 Simple and complex cells-I 7m
4 hours to complete

1.2.3 Phototransduction-II 10m

2.2.5 Simple and complex cells-II 10m

Chemosensory system
1.2.4 Phototransduction-III 8m
2.2.6 Colors 6m
1.2.5
2.2.1 Color
Soundvision-I 7m
transduction-I 11m
16 videos (Total 204 min), 2 quizzes SEE ALL
1.2.6
2.2.2 Color
Soundvision-II 20m
transduction-II 8m

1.2.7
2.2.3 Signal
Sound processing of the11m
transduction-III retina 18m
16 videos
2.2.4 Sound transduction-IV 10m
1 reading
3.1.1 The senses of chemoreception 16m
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2.2.5 Sound transduction-V 12m
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3.1.2 Olfactory the slides14m
organization 10m
2.2.6 Auditory pathways and the tonotopic map 9m
3.1.3 Olfactory transduction 14m
2.2.7 Sound
2 practice
localization-I
exercises11m
4
3.1.4 Olfactory adaption 14m
4 hours to complete
Quiz 1.1
2.2.8 Sound
10mlocalization-II 17m
3.1.5 Identi cation of odorant-receptor genes-I 16m

Touch
Quiz 1.2 10m
3.1.6 Identi
2 practice
and
cation
exercises
pain & Sleep
of odorant-receptor genes-II 11m

amd arousal
Quiz 2.1
3.1.7 Three
10mmodels of olfactory organization 13m

Quiz 2.2
3.2.1 Projection
10m of the
17 videos olfactory
(Total system
198 min), 15m
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3.2.2 Circuits in the olfactory bulb-I 12m

3.2.3 Circuits in the olfactory bulb-II 10m

17 videos

3.2.4 Parallel
4.1.1 Taste and taste receptors-I
organization 7m
of the somatosensory system- Show More
I 10m
3.2.5 Taste and taste receptors-II 12m

4.1.2 Parallel organization of the somatosensory system-

3.2.6
II 8mTaste and taste receptors-III 9m

3.2.7 Mechanosensory
4.1.3 Taste and taste receptors-IV
neurons 11m13m

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3.2.8 Taste
4.1.4 transduction-I
Response properties:9m
adaptation and stimuli &
receptive eld 16m
3.2.9 Taste transduction-II 11m

4.1.5 Mechanotransduction channels-I 9m

2 practice exercises channels-II 11m

4.1.6 Mechanotransduction

Quiz 3.1
4.1.7 10m
Somatosensory cortex & somatopic map-I 13m

Chenjian Li
Quiz 3.2
4.1.8 10m map-II, barrel cortex & pain regulation 11m
Somatopic

Professor
4.2.1 Sleep-I 10m
School of Life Sciences

4.2.2 Sleep-II 15m

4.2.3 Sleep-III 8m

4.2.4 Sleep-IV 10m

4.2.5 Circadian and sleep homeostasis 12m

Donggen Luo
4.2.6 Sleep stage-I 13m
Research Fellow
School of Life Sciences
4.2.7 Sleep stage-II 16m

4.2.8 Summary of sleep studies 8m

4.2.9 Sleep/waking Flip- op Model 8m

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Quiz 4.1 10m

Yan Zhang
Quiz 4.2 10m
Professor
School of Life Sciences, Peking University

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