Neurons, Brains and Behavior

This course will review the basic principles of neuroscience and behavior. It will cover how specific properties of neurons allow them to communicate through action potentials and chemical messengers (like dopamine and serotonin), how neurons function together to form circuits, and how these circuits take information from the environment, process it, and generate an appropriate behavior. Specifically, we will discuss how each of our five senses are transformed into signals our brain understands. Students will learn through a combination of lectures, group discussions, and in-class activities.