Splash Biography

A dive into the world behind how your brain works. What is the mechanism and code that allows your brain to do so many actions, from moving your body to thoughts? How do drugs affect your brain? Come learn more about the neurons, the building block of the brain.

"The Neuroscience of Death" explores the different ethical and philosophical questions surrounding death and the classification of brain death. What are different ethical dilemmas that arise in classifying brain death? How is brain death declared? Expect to answer these questions and more in this fascinating class. In the second part of this class, "The Neuroscience of Learning and Sleep" analyzes how important sleep is to learning. Sleep is incredibly important for resting our bodies and our minds/brains. In this class we ponder: what kinds of consolidation occurs when we sleep? How damaging are all-nighters, really?