11. Introduction to Neuroscience II

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Noise in the brain can be seen as echoes of the irrelevant processes that have their own meaning, in the context of a process under consideration. Could all the naturally-random noise of Grand Central Station gel into a Sex in the City monologue?

Reality is the structure of the weights that impact decisions.

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

Where is Nathan Wooding he’s the best neuroprofessor ever

The man who presented first was excellent, the woman later, while I'm sure she's very knowledgeable on the subject, she distracted from the lecture with her constant giggles.

Lady acting sus af

One of the videos in the series where I really wish a cameraman would've panned up to the projection or screen from time to time

he got big brain and big dick energy (⸝⸝⸝╸▵╺⸝⸝⸝)

brilliance

Slides and drawings are super helpful for keeping the class (and the speaker) focused on a thing. When you're just talking forever. Also, as many small, direct, straightforward words and sentences are particularly useful when trying to communicate clearly. It's one thing if you're giving some political speech like Obama or you're on a date or you're in a job interview and you wanna use big words to show off, but especially when you're teaching undergrads, you should really model yourself after Dana did rather than Patrick with his overly cerebral and philosophical tangents

His stories were good, though

Also some amount of jokes, actual emotion. I liked her slide with the monkey. Brings you back to attention, so easy to zone out during a long lecture

I didn't know Drake was a professor lecturer before he became a singer.

hi

This guy is so nervous. It's amazing he could present his content so clearly and accurately, while at the same time being so nervous. Normally, people only feel nervous a little in the beginning before they relax, as they get into the zone, but this guy could not manage that. I guess he was constantly aware of himself talking to an audience.

These lecture series although no 13 years old or timeless like Carl Sagan‘s cosmos

Patrick is a brilliant educator but am I the only one that is distracted by how handsome and sexy he is?

But the Content of his lecture is so riveting and his delivery is so engaged though classically statuesque in a very Greek sense the beauty that is young man beholds this is over powered by his brilliance

Was so listening my sympathetic nervous system reminded me to take my medicine. Was very relaxed watching in bed. She was really cute good lecture.

years later at a Stanford reunion, when asked why he completely abandoned his Neuroscience PhD, Bob Ross responded: "There are no mistakes, just happy accidents!"

I love this lecture series.
I really do.

Buuuuut
I also think that lady towards the end could easily steal my heart.

how lovely and professional both of you are

BUTTON UP YOUR SHIRT BUDDY

Drake's cousin was the intellectual in the fam

Wish she could enunciate better. Its all coming through mumbly. The automated closed caption can't even tell what she's saying and there's no back ground noise. I'm sorry if she's working with some kind of lisp. Honestly, can't understand every 10th to 15th word and sometimes a few words at a time. Why on earth would someone want her to present? We're there literally no other students who could do the lecture or no other females willing to present? I just don't understand why someone would let someone who can't be understood present almost an entire lecture. I've had to rewind and replay sections 5 or more times just to figure out what she MIGHT be saying. Has no one ever heard this woman speak before, my goodness!

I think there was a mistake here. Nitric oxide, formula NO is not the same as nitrous oxide N20. You get nitrous oxide at the dentist, not the nitric oxide. and nitrous oxide is not used in the body to send signals.

Neuroscience doesn’t encapsulate the non-evidential and that’s where a lot of individual progress is made, the answer then is to bring our attention to our perceived value of a particular idea or sense and to lock in on that moment and expand.

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

My parasympathetic nervous system turned on when the lovely lady came on to teach oh my gosh o.o

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.

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

wtf is he looking at over his shoulder?

First part of the lecture was extremely informative and interesting, learned a lot.
Second part was also... very interesting... slight bit distractive but I didn't mind

Stephen witshire sounds like someone sir baron cohen doesnt want eugenicsd away /lh

Brook from one piece

year 2010, stanford university students still laugh at the idea of a woman talking to them about orgasm

Great to let your grad students teach some lectures.

i used to be able to imagine locations and have characters do stuff in there in my head
i don't really do that anymore though

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.

Love the hair.

All this dude needs is short shorts and roller skates. 😂

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

Is his shirt open to a bare chest? Am I crAzy?

LTP long term potentiation

In one of the other lectures it said that men rate women's voices as more attractive when they are ovulating? Is Dana ovulating in this video?

my sympathetic system had a huge reaction to dana <3

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.

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.

feel like ptsd is a trade-off of having ltp in the first place