Fundamentals of Neuroscience is a joint online / on-campus course at Harvard University. The online version of the course is completely free to take, and those students who successfully complete the course are eligible to receive a certificate of completion from edX.

The course serves as an introductory survey of topics in neuroscience, ranging from the function of ion channels in the neuronal membrane, to the activity of individual neurons and small groups of neurons, to the function of the brain and its subsystems. The online version of the course has no specific prerequisites, though some prior exposure to biology and/or chemistry can be helpful.

Web Information

Website: https://www.mcb80x.org/

Prerequisites

There are no formal requirements for MCB80x, though prior background in biology, chemistry and/or physics is helpful.

Textbook: There is no required textbook to buy. We link to related text in open-source Neuroscience textbooks online

Lab kits: Lab kits are optional, but if you want to start doing some hands-on science at home alongside our DIY Lab section, you can buy a SpikerBox from our partners at Backyard Brains. We recommend getting a 2=Channel SpikerBox, but a single-channel SpikerBox works for most of the experiments we do.

Fundamentals of Neuroscience Part 1

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MIT Open Courseware has, for many years, made available the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences courses online.

edX presently has 25 “neuroscience” courses and many other related courses. Courses originate from MIT, Harvard, CalTech, EPFL, Adelaide, UC Berkeley, UT Austin, Rice, Colgate, Purdue, KyotoU, and McGill.

 

Web Information

MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/

edX neuroscience courses: https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=neuroscience

About Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department

The human brain is the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful information-processing device known.

To study its complexities, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology combines the experimental technologies of neurobiology, neuroscience, and psychology, with the theoretical power that comes from the fields of computational neuroscience and cognitive science.

The Department was founded by Hans-Lukas Teuber in 1964 as a Department of Psychology, with the then-radical vision that the study of brain and mind are inseparable. Today, at a time of increasing specialization and fragmentation, our goal remains to understand cognition- its processes, and its mechanisms at the level of molecules, neurons, networks of neurons, and cognitive modules. We are unique among neuroscience and cognitive science departments in our breadth, and in the scope of our ambition. We span a very large range of inquiry into ...

This online, interactive courseware for the study of neuroscience is provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy atThe University of Texas Medical School at Houston. The project is being developed under the direction of the Department Chair and Editor, John H. Byrne.

Neuroanatomy Online is UT Health’s new open-access electronic laboratory designed to complement Neuroscience Online.

 

Web Information

Neuroanatomy Online: http://www.uth.tmc.edu/nba/neuroscience/index.htm

Neuroanatomy Online: http://www.uth.tmc.edu/nba/neuroanatomy/index.html

Section 1: Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Introduction to Neurons and Neural Networks, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 1: Resting Potentials & Action Potentials, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 2: Ionic Mechanisms of Action Potentials, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 3: Propagation of Action Potentials, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 4: Synaptic Transmission at the Skeletal Neuromuscular Junction, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Release, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 6: Synaptic Transmission in the Central Nervous System, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 7: Synaptic Plasticity, John H. Byrne, Ph.D. Chapter 8: Organization of Cell Types, Jack C. Waymire, Ph.D. Chapter 9: Synapse Formation/Survival/Elimination, Andrew J. Bean, Ph.D. Chapter 10: Transport and the Molecular Mechanism of Secretion, Jack C. Waymire, Ph.D. Chapter 11: Acetylcholine Neurotransmission, Jack C. Waymire, Ph.D. Chapter 12: Biogenic Amine Neurotransmitters, Jack ...