Investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, genes, experience, hormones, and other influences to produce a wide range of behaviors, led by a prominent neurobiologist, zoologist, and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient.
Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01: Biology and Behavior-An Introduction
- 02: The Basic Cells of the Nervous System
- 03: How Two Neurons Communicate
- 04: Learning and Synaptic Plasticity
- 05: The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons
- 06: The Limbic System
- 07: The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
- 08: The Regulation of Hormones by the Brain
- 09: The Regulation of the Brain by Hormones
- 10: The Evolution of Behavior
- 11: The Evolution of Behavior-Some Examples
- 12: Cooperation, Competition, and Neuroeconomics
- 13: What Do Genes Do? Microevolution of Genes
- 14: What Do Genes Do? Macroevolution of Genes
- 15: Behavior Genetics
- 16: Behavior Genetics and Prenatal Environment
- 17: An Introduction to Ethology
- 18: Neuroethology
- 19: The Neurobiology of Aggression I
- 20: The Neurobiology of Aggression II
- 21: Hormones and Aggression
- 22: Early Experience and Aggression
- 23: Evolution, Aggression, and Cooperation
- 24: A Summary
Taught by
Robert Sapolsky
