Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain

Brain Basics examines the breakthrough discoveries that formed the foundation of modern neuroscience, covering many incredible areas in this revolutionary field, including neural networks, the nervous system, and the neuron.

Mapping the Brain the revolution in neuroscience is showing how the brain is wired through its neural networks as well as its primary systems and its relationship to the nervous system.

The Developing Brain examines the evolution of the human brain from the earliest sea creatures of the Cambrian era to the modern world and how neuroscience is making sense of the neuron, neural networks and the nervous system.

The Thinking and Social Brain discusses neuroscience's breakthrough discoveries in the fields of neural cognition, social cognition, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience to demonstrate how the brain, through learning and memory, fashions the modern human whose abilities include, empathy, problem solving, creating great works of art and living a healthy emotional life.

The Brain, Computers and Technology delves into a future where neuroscience and science fiction meet in robotics and artificial intelligence and how the brain, the nervous system and computers will interface and use the brain's neurons and neuroplasticity to make super humans out of everyone.