Medical Neuroscience

This is a slide from the Medical Neuroscience course offered by Duke University on Coursera. To be found in Week 11: "Temporal Associational Cortex: Language, part 1"

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

I’ve taken this course and it’s really nice, has some very good animations and explanations to really help you grasp the concepts. If you ever finish this course and feel like you need “more” then the following course is really good but beware it is very intensive and is the actual course content taught at Duke medical school by the same professor. But hey, at least you won’t be graded on it.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

That is independent of the field, across all professions and professors. Welcome to the world of academia, where those teaching were not taught how to teach, and often don't see it only as a distraction that has to be done (at least up to some level, teaching the basics is no fun for most). The justification - apart from tradition and cost - I think is that any student who makes it to higher education should be able to do most learning on their own, and overcome such problems.

On the bright side: In the Internet age it has never been easier - by orders of magnitude - to find and access better learning resources. For a first course for bio-chemistry for example, if it is not too late by now, you may want to check the "Principles of Biochemistry course" on edX, by Harvard. For a very good neuroscience course - after you already know the very basics - I could recommend "Medical Neuroscience" on Coursera, by the excellent teacher Leonard E. White (Duke University), just to give one more example.

There also are a number of Youtube channels with pretty good content. I have no idea why anyone would go through all the effort to produce those videos, I can't imagine there is much money to be made, but for whatever reason plenty of content exists.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience - when you click Enroll you have the option of Full Course, No Certificate. Caution - this one looks pretty advanced and might be over our heads, but as long as we're not operating on anyone, that's okay, right? :)

Not sure about neural engineering, but a good course that you could take that is free is the Medical Neuroscience course from Duke University on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

Its a great in depth course that most people can achieve. There is a text book attached to this course that you can purchase that can serve your needs.

Is this the one: https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

I'd recommend getting comfortable with research articles. I started reading primary scientific lit in high school for my own edification and I never looked back. "pubmed" after every google search xD

Python will always be useful, not essential, unless your specific position requires it.

For learning neuroscience, this is the most phenomenal resource I've ever come across: Duke University - Medical Neuroscience

It's a free, extensive online course, very well done. I watched a bunch of this early on and got way ahead of the game. There's lecture videos and lab videos, where the professor will show you whatever your learning on dissected brains. Best thing short of having the brains yourself.

Don't obsess over Alzheimer's, they'll teach you what you need to know for the specific research they're doing. Instead, look up your lab's webpage, or the professor's page, and browse through a couple of the lab's most recent publications. Scroll through current projects, make sure you understand the background info, the purpose of the research, etc. No need to know them in and out, but getting a little acquainted with the prior and current research in the lab beforehand always shows.

Can I ask why you say you want to be the best? What is it within neuroscience you see yourself doing?

Medical Neuroscience by Prefoessor White from Duke University

That’s the book I’d recommend. You can also take a course taught by one of the authors here (it uses concepts from the book and may make it easier to understand, plus it’s free).

I think they and the other commenters are referring to this course.

Try Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Blumenfeld.

Not stricrly a book, but I also highly recommend the Coursera medical neuroscience course - https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience (and their course website which lists lots of books and references ++)

I found this coursera course to be really good. It's free and can be done at your own pace.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

Esse é bem completo, mas talvez muito aprofundado:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

A lot of textbooks and class notes are free online. Another great way is through MOOCS: a quick search on Coursera brought up several viable looking courses, including this https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

Heres a website for a really great online course from Duke. I used it alongside my medical school curriculum and it did a great job of clearing things up. Plus the guy who teaches it uses Purves which is one of the gold standards for introductory neuro courses. Full of quizzes, discussions, and anything you could want.

Textbooks:

Principles of Neural Science by Kandel et al.

Neuroscience by Purves et al.

Neuroscience by Bear et al.

Popular science books:

Neurocomic by Hana Ros

Behave by Robert Sapolsky

The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter

The Brain by David Eagleman

The Accidental Mind by David Linden

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte-Taylor

The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

Making Up the Mind by Chris Frith

You might also want to look at edX or coursera for free neuroscience lectures. I like Medical Neuroscience by Leonard White (https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience), but another good course is Understanding the Brain by Peggy Mason (https://www.coursera.org/learn/neurobiology).

Not sure if "chief", but this a good community for those kinds of matters. Also there is a Coursera course where you can learn a lot of medical neuroscience, that being said is clear that it is not neuroanatomy exclusive thing but it might help you.

The page https://www.learnmedicalneuroscience.nl/author/prof-len-white/

The course https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

The book they use https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Dale-Purves/dp/1605353809

You probably can get an old copy from here https://libgen.is

Couple of Coursera courses:

• Medical Neuroscience
• Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life (I liked this A LOT)
• Advanced Neurobiology I

Plus courses that are more computational specific:

• Synapses, Neurons and Brains
• Computational Neuroscience

And there is going to be a free Online Summer School hosted by International Youth Neuroscience Association this July. I guess they are still open for applications. https://ibb.co/ykcRjS0

I got an BSc, MSc and PhD myself so I usually don't watch the stuff from beginning to end as I've been exposed to much of it... but let's see.

The Princeton Algorithms courses (Coursera) seem good and is quite popular but honestly as long as I don't interview I rarely ever need those.

From HSE (Coursera) I watched parts of Stochastic processes and bayesian methods. I found those interesting because the approach is somehow different and what is presented is rather rare.

I did most of the AI course on Udacity with Norvig and Thrun. I really liked that one. At university we also followed the AIAMA textbook so also much repetition but I found the presentstion is good.

Probabilistic graphical models (Daphne Koller, Stanford, Coursera) : a classic but honestly I never brought up enough motivation to keep at it for longer.

The deeplearning.ai courses: Watched all the videos from all parts. Think they were OK. Did exercises in the beginning but didn't feel to learn much from them. Too much just transcribing equations and as I work in ML anyway I rather just do my work.

fast.ai: many love it, I never liked them. Too much time wasted with showing how to set up stuff, work with jupyter Notebooks etc. Some hidden gems but have to endure lots of noise to find them.

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data (MIT, edx) seemed great but too much repetition to really do it all.

Udacity Operating Systems/Advanced Operating Systems. Liked them, as I started teaching an OS course at a local institution I used them as refresher.

Udacity intro to parallel computing was great to get started with CUDA.

Udacity. Interactive 3D graphics was also well made but I think it's over 5 years now that I did it, might not be well maintained.

Non CS I like: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secret-of-life-3

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/immunology

https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-neuroscience

https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-from-haute-cuisine-to-soft-matter

"So are you saying thats its a mix of nature/nuture or is it 100% environment? "So are you saying thats its a mix of nature/nuture or is it 100% environment? Because if black peeps were raised well and stuff so they had the same iq as everyone else. Because they have higher bone density wouldn't that make them the superior race?"

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Your thinking maybe right but due to lack of evidence we can provide, we can't say for sure that "You are black is why you are dumb". Currently, it is believed by some neuroscientist that environment is the cause. BUT you can change it by becoming a neuroscientist.

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"Also i'd to love learn about some neuroscience :)"

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First and foremost, most people who fail to study ANY subject is because of lack of self-discipline and not knowing how to learn properly.

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Note: The courses below are all free. Click "Audit the course" after clicking enroll in Coursera.

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Step #1

Learning How to Learn is a course by University of California San Diego. It focuses on how to better learn and avoid procrastination.

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Step #2

Now you need to learn the relevant math and stuff.

1. Statistic and probability (You will learn that there is no such thing as 100% confidence in statistics.)
2. Linear Algebra
3. Graph Theory
4. Digital Signal Processing
5. Take sometime to memorize brain parts.
6. Depends on which side you want to study (Don't worry about this now as your course will tell you.)

Step #3

Now you are ready to jump into neuroscience!

1. Medical Neuroscience
2. Synapses, Neurons and Brains
3. Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging
4. Computational Neuroscience
5. You can also learn Neural Network (A.I.) now if you have learnt the math above.

Step #5

Now it is time for you to become a scientist!

1. Scientific Methods and Research
2. Now you can ask yourself what question public have that you as a scientist want to answer. You can do your research from here. Write a scientific journals and then perhaps write a book on it.

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Remember, it takes discipline to learn something. You are not only are you gonna be learning neuroscience with above steps, you will be learning self-discipline too. Most people who fail is because they lack self-discipline. When you gain self-discipline, you basically win in life.

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PS: Don't try to rush. Instead, sit down and study relaxly. You want to understand every topic well so get yourself a notebook and a pen. Enjoy your journey.

PPS: Get yourself a weekly blog. That way you will have motivation to study the path above. It will also be useful for future employment and university admission and of course, big scholarships.