It brings me joy to watch uni students in an "introduction to neuroscience" class giggle and laugh at the word "orgasm" ..

Patrick is really good at explaining and travelling between lower and higher levels of explanation depth. He’s relaxed and confident. Great lecture!

Patrick's lecturing style feels very Sapolsky inspired - which is a hard style to pull off so kudos.

it would be nice if the camera looked at the powerpoint when the speaker was referring to it... as good as the hair looks

I wonder if Sapolsky's beard had a fight with Patrick's fro, who wins?

With that hair, I tend to think he CAN have his shirt open. Kudos to him.

She's very nervous but o so charming. I have the feeling I'm listening to a very excited friend. I actually was falling asleep but her hyper enthusiasm has awakened me. My brain is entranced by the magic sparks and fun. I'm sure this is gonna stick. Thank you! ✨✨

One more thing. I thought Dana did an excellent job at presenting her materials especially for someone like me who has zero neuroscience knowledge. I laughed a lot and learned a lot, and those two usually go hand in hand.

I hope that this guy (Patrick) goes on into academia - with a bit more practice and experience, I reckon that he'll be as good a lecturer as Robert Sapolsky. And that's high praise.

They both did alright, but man, Dana made presentation fun and easier for me to digest. Loved it.

Such good lecturers. Patrick has such great cadence and Dana has such great humour. The subtle things which make their incredible subject knowledge and pedagogical choices come alive. Excellent

Patrick H is gonna be a great prof.if he isnt already , i guess this was in 2010

Torsten Wiesel is still alive! He is 97 years old. Hubel unfortunately passed. Thank you both for your work!

Excellent lecture ! Surprise! Grandmother cells have been found and are precisely described in a Scientific American Issue published in 2020 dealing with the neural mechanism that underlies facial recognition.

How could people not like such informative presentation by the TA's? The TA were taking class where the Prof. Sopolsky is teaching. This is hugely humbling experience, therefore, they were feeling the weight of that class and trying to be more humble. How come students of Sopolsky forget the context and make comments. I think no one questions the content of the lectures of either of the presenters.

The lady is a really good science communicator, I think I saw her as a guest on a yt channel I subscribe to. She's talking about stuff in a relaxed way for some of the stuff. So far the guests have been top notch and would make great teachers.

I loved Dana's class. So much fun.

You are a delightful presenter, I've smiled and giggled. Quite truthfully, I could not get up and talk to a crowd of people I don't know.

Love how every time she talks about it, it's a different animal I'm running from...a hippo/rhino/snake/elephant/hyena lmao I need to stop pissing off the zoo animals

The funk soul brother, check it out now...

This is amazing. Free education if you care to know more than you did 30 minutes ago and are motivated to find it.

I learned a bit about the function of the brain way back when I took Psy201 & 202. These video lectures are a very welcome addition and expansion to that knowledge. Thanks.

I'm impressed by the work Dana Turker obviously put into preparing her part of this lecture (this is not what substitute teachers usually do). I hope her career has prospered in the years since.

The way they present the information is seriously engaging and I need to learn more ✨

This guy, too has it down with the Sapolskyan humor "and you have to invite them to your wedding..." etc.

Love the fro and the mind

what an amazing brain, to be able to be so coherent. What an excellent communicator !

I love this man! His hair! His persona but most importantly his intelligence....♥️ Look like a man I would bump into in the 70’s.

A little maddening that the speaker is looking up and gesturing to an illustration on the board that we cannot see! By the way, LTP, long term potentiation is a good example of evolution knowing how to reinforce important threats of death that an organism experiences, and emphasizing them in memory. Much to the disadvantage of sleeping patterns of war veterans who suffer with PTSD. Hence the veteran, for example, mentioning his experiences in the Battle of the Bulge sometime seeming as fresh, as if it happened yesterday, including the sights and smells. Even if 60 or more years ago

this guy's most definitely the best at introduction to neuroscience! he makes it all very understandablee

Yes, she was pretty cool as well. A bit nervous - which is entirely understandable. Talking in public is generally rated as the most scary thing - beating dying into second place. She needs a bit of experience to get used to it - but then I reckon that she'll be a good lecturer.

This is a wonderful lecture! The TA did a great job.

Where is Patrick now? I thought he was excellent!

She's adorable and bubbly with an outward spark the guys didn't seem to have (or at least outwardly express as strongly). She's got a childlike fascination with what she's talking about, which is exactly why I'm sure she went far. And that makes my heart happy.

I am very interested in this subject and appreciate your sharing the knowledge. It would be helpful if you could post the info referred to above the lector in a corner of the screen so we all could see it. This would make it easier to understand.

i was watching the video on times 1.5 and this girl sounds so excited!

If anyone was wondering, he meant the retrograde neurotransmitter Nitric Oxid ... not nitrous oxide, the NMDA inhalant you get from your dentist 🤌.

"Take the information and use it to manipulate people, this is what education is" Words of wisdom

This great lecture by Patrick House got me to google him.. found several articles including some fiction, look forward to seeing if his writing is as good as his lectures.

This guy is more relaxed, and explains better so i can remember. He is very tuned into delivering, information, TO, remember. ☺ Really great class ! He has considered 'us' memorizing easily. Thank you, so very much !!!

& the last speaker. You missed her in the description. She was great!

I love this lecture series. I really do. Buuuuut I also think that lady towards the end could easily steal my heart.

The major weakness of all those Sapolsky videos is the refusal of the camera to rise upwards to focus on all pictures shown on the higher boards above the head of the presenter. Similarly, when the drawings happen to be on the board to the extreme right of the wall behind the presenter, the camera will not swivel to show that board. In all those cases we have to guess the details of the pictures, the projected images, or the drawings. The cameraman remains glued on the face of the presenter. A practice that truncates the full impact and appreciation of the lecture. "Tis a pity.

I loved Dana Turkers presentation style, she was so engaging and charming and managed to hold the audiences attention so well. All the students presenting are very informative and interesting but i think she was my favorite, just holding the rooms attention and talking with so much passion :)

This was an interesting lecture. It would be interesting to know how chronic pain and neuropathic pain work from a neurological point of view.

Very good. Would be helpful to see the slides. He knows the subject and I would surmise he has a well developed prefrontal cortex.

Really great lecture, it would have been really handy to have a look at the board / slides though. Anywhere I can find them?

Omg everytime i hear that okAYYYY , it is like a needle telling me to listen.

disco stu gonna teach some neurobiology to you!

I genuinely thought it was a video of a lecture that was recorded in the 70’s because even collar of his shirt is not dissimilar to the 70’s style and somehow he looks as if he is from that era !

when he graduates, he'll be Dr. House...

I call it pattern thinking (autistic thinking which, taken to extreme, allows savantism) I can imagine for visual thinking autistics it would be a imagined visual world, but since I think in movement it's like all my memories are on a web and I can "feel" when one is pulling on another, it takes me longer to piece them together (mostly sorting out what's causal) but after calibrating with years of self-study of psychology I'm starting to predict where the gaps in my learning are and how to find them (one such prediction led me to find this course) and if I eventually cover all those gaps I genuinely believe I'd have an amazing ability to spot the gaps in the field as a whole and similarly predict where to look for the answers. Mostly just shouting this into the void, I can't afford uni either financially or energetically rn but since I know how to actually research and self-teach I'll be chugging along in the background figuring things out but gee, it'd be cool if I didn't have to grind myself into powder to prove my brain actually works like this before I'm given the chance to make use of it's potential.

how lovely and professional both of you are

I liked the first part and, especially Nathan Woodling part better. Completely agree with sushicartman01 about the pictures, the presenter refers to. Not seeing the pictures makes it harder to understand the whole process

LOVE UR CLASSES!

Respect I know I'm ten years behind but I respect Ur great work thank u and Robert sapolsky

15:30 why can't I just picture hippos in a camp. memorizing information. I keep my neumonics super tight and simple.

I have been teaching high school for 25 years and I often hear the absurd quip about - those that can't teach - blah blah, etc. It is clear that knowing does not qualify one to teach. But the only way to learn to teach is to do. So keep on teaching. I hope all three TA's watch themselves - they will learn a lot.

Thanks for the tutorial, gang. I know more about Erectile Dysfunction than I would ever wanted to know. I think Dr. Sapolsky's beard would beat Patrick's fro, although Patrick's fro is pretty awesome.

If someone told me that Patrick has purple shades on the desk, and is currently wearing flairs and rollerskates, I would believe them.

Great lecture I learned a bunch

Dana is so freaking cute I can't concentrate. Proves what she said about the sympathetic nervous system

I think there is an important part of brain function which can be termed 'focus of attention'. The proposal is that this focus of attention operates in the brain by using the ability to focus the wave energy associated with certain neuron pathways to activate or amplify the activity of other specific areas of the neural network. So for example our focus of attention could be in visual inputs, audible inputs, movement, thought processes etc. The focus of attention then becomes the means by which specific aspects of consciousness are selected. For more detail see: www.academia.edu/30004610/The_Conscious_Brain Richard

Patrick did a great job, great hair my brother. peace and love my friends

Wish we could see the slides in the first part.

The last speaker was amazingly. Succinct, interesting, and to the point.

I bugs the crap out of me that the camera is trained on the lecturer the whole time, and never shows the diagrams that the lecturer is referring to. Nevertheless, thanks to Stanford for putting this lecture series online.

Where’s Robert 👀😭

That gave me a headstart with my fellow workers, thanks (:

He refers to a picture above at several points of the lecture, it would be nice if there were two camera and one of them filmed that picture so we could see it as well!

Why does LTP not work another way in other parts of the brain and has to necessarily be connected to memory?

Im studying lateral inhibtion/excitation and the mosquito bite example just make it click for me. Awesome 😊

Awesome lecture! Can you share slides, anyone? Also, I'm wondering whether Stephen has some brain advantage when it comes to memory or he is just obsessive with his memory palaces.

Great class!

So I looked up Patrick House (Pretty sure that was the first guys last name), looks like he's written a book called "19 ways of looking at consciousness". Haven't read it (got plenty of other things to read), but wanted to throw it out there.

Oh the biology of PTSD memories. Sounds super interesting.

''Because of our tendency to explain what we dont know in terms of the smallest unit of a thing that we do know...'' :D

so information is just an energy flowing though different types of synaps.

Good lectures. The TAs need to work on their presentation, especially the last presenter she's very schoolgirlish in her presentation very giggly. The content is good and I'm glad its available for free. Thank goodness for the internet.

Excellent, thankyou!

I felt she communicated clearly and comprehensively. I see your point that deeper more thoughtful people might be ejected but I would say this is more because of a digressive approach to learning and conveying information, which does not keep them fully within the boundaries of their subject, and or, a particularly libertarian mind which causes all kinds of transgressions accross the regulatory boundaries of the educational system. So conforming can be somewhat as important as being interesting?

Dana Turker demonstrated a subtle connection with her audience, an emotional rapport, not just an awareness of them as she spoke, but a sort of receptiveness to them, that serves her ability to convey information.

I clicked because of the hair :D

Also see on youtube : Neuroscience - Long-Term Potentiation

Great video. Thanks!

"Neurons that fire together wire together” are the words of Dr Carla Shatz (not the words of Donald Hebb as is commonly claimed).

Does the drug ecstasy effect memory?

I like how she's saying "nyorvooz sistaaam".

Great lecture

Where's the link to the movie

38:00 Hinting at the deep learning for vision.

I would love to study at Stanford,

The first TA's hairstyle is very nice. I like.

So good, thank you!

I wonder if the sympathetic nervous system is hyper-activated when you eat psychedelic mushrooms. Since you feel more hyper and your senses, especially sight are more sensitive, while touch I think is dulled down.

is there anywhere to see the slides?

I was always wondering why people in countries such as USA and other western countries getting motor diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer and Parkinson more than the Asians. Today I learned high stress levels can bring down dopamine levels and this can create motor diseases in long run and in the same time high levels of dopamine can cause schizophrenia(Using excessive levels of marijuana and other drugs). This shows us the importance of having a moderate life and the importance of the culture asians have practiced over the years.

I think it was Steven Pinker who said something about having outstanding hair as an academic is some sort of (possibly career) advantage.

Great info, horrendous mnemonics!!

Is he gonna mention at some point that this ground breaking experiment to detect the role of visual cortex neurons, was done by sticking probe into cats brain and showing them diapositives