Life Sciences & Health

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The Human Brain
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
This course surveys the core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Cognitive Science
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Introduction to Neuroscience
Prof. Mark Bear
This course is an introduction to the mammalian nervous system, with emphasis on the structure and function of the...
Biology Science & Math
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Suzanne Corkin
This course explores the cognitive and neural processes that support attention, vision, language, motor control,...
Biology Cognitive Science Science & Math
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Introductory Biology
Prof. Barbara Imperiali
7.016 Introductory Biology provides an introduction to fundamental principles of biochemistry, molecular biology,...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Health & Medicine
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Introduction to Neural Computation
Prof. Michale Fee
This course introduces quantitative approaches to understanding brain and cognitive functions. Topics include...
Biological Engineering Biology Biomedical Technologies
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General Biochemistry
Prof. Michael Yaffe
This course focuses on contributions of biochemistry toward an understanding of the structure and functioning of...
Biology Chemistry Science & Math
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Perception
Prof. Josh McDermott
This course studies how the senses work and how physical stimuli are transformed into signals in the nervous system....
Biomedical Technologies Cognitive Science Health & Medicine
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Neuroscience and Behavior
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
This course covers the relation of structure and function at various levels of neuronal integration. Topics include...
Biology Cognitive Science Psychology
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Designing Your Life
Gabriella Jordan
This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an...
Health & Medicine Mental Health
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Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Prof. Sebastian Seung
This course gives a mathematical introduction to neural coding and dynamics. Topics include convolution,...
Biological Engineering Biology Cognitive Science
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Brain Structure and Its Origins
Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
This course provides an outline of vertebrate functional neuroanatomy, aided by studies of comparative neuroanatomy...
Biology Cognitive Science Health & Medicine
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Biological Engineering Design
Prof. John Essigmann
This course illustrates how knowledge and principles of biology, biochemistry, and engineering are integrated to...
Biological Engineering Biomedical Technologies Engineering
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Genetics
Prof. Chris Kaiser
This course discusses the principles of genetics with application to the study of biological function at the level...
Biology Science & Math
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Weight Training
Prof. Halston Taylor
This 12 session course is designed for the beginning or novice weight lifter, or for those who have experience...
Health & Medicine Public Health
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Sensation And Perception
Dr. Benjamin Balas
This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Cognitive Science
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A Clinical Approach to the Human Brain
Prof. Thomas Byrne
This course is designed to provide an understanding of how the human brain works in health and disease, and is...
Biology Cognitive Science Health & Medicine
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Principles of Human Disease
Prof. David Housman
This course covers current understanding of, and modern approaches to human disease, emphasizing the molecular and...
Health & Medicine Immunology Pathology and Pathophysiology
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Biochemistry Laboratory
Dr. Elizabeth Vogel Taylor
The course, which spans two thirds of a semester, provides students with a research-inspired laboratory experience...
Biology Science & Math
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Sensory Systems
Prof. Peter H. Schiller
This course examines the neural bases of sensory perception. The focus is on physiological and anatomical studies of...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Health & Medicine
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Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health (BE.104J)
Prof. James Sherley
This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and...
Biological Engineering Earth Science Engineering
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Increasing Your Physical Intelligence, Enhancing Your Social Smarts
Noah Riskin
The purpose of this class is to offer students a new perspective on the importance of our bodily experience to our...
Health & Medicine Mental Health Public Health
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Ecology I: The Earth System
Prof. Edward DeLong
We will cover fundamentals of ecology, considering Earth as an integrated dynamic system. Topics include coevolution...
Biology Earth Science Science & Math
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Gender, Health, and Society
Dr. Brittany Charlton
This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender...
Gender Studies Health & Medicine Immunology
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Neuroscience and Society
Prof. Natasha Schüll
This course explores the social relevance of neuroscience, considering how emerging areas of brain research at once...
Biology Science & Math Social Sciences
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Introduction to Neuroanatomy
Prof. Chris Moore
This subject will be an intensive introduction to neuroanatomy, involving lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on...
Biology Health & Medicine Pathology and Pathophysiology
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Experimental Molecular Genetics
Prof. Jing-Ke Weng
This project-based laboratory course provides students with in-depth experience in experimental molecular genetics,...
Biology Humanities Literature
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D-Lab: Medical Technologies for the Developing World
Jose Gomez-Marquez
D-Lab Health provides a multidisciplinary approach to global health technology design via guest lectures and a major...
Biomedical Technologies Health & Medicine International Development
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Remembering: Creating and Controlling Memory
Prof. Anthony Wagner
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that...
Biology Cognitive Science Science & Math
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Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems
Prof. Jose Venegas
This course elaborates on the application of the principles of energy and mass flow to major human organ systems. It...
Biology Chemical Engineering Engineering
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Chemistry of Sports
Dr. Patricia Christie
The seminar is designed to look at the science of triathlons and sports from a molecular/chemical biological point...
Health & Medicine Pathology and Pathophysiology Public Health
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Drugs, Politics, and Culture
Prof. Hugh Gusterson
This class examines the relationship between a number of mind-altering substances and cultural processes. We look at...
Health & Medicine Pharmacology & Toxicology Public Health
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Neuropharmacology
Dr. Daniela Tropea
The neuropharmacology course will discuss the drug-induced changes in functioning of the nervous system. The...
Biology Health & Medicine Pharmacology & Toxicology
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Fencing
Prof. Jaroslav Koniusz
This course is intended to provide students with the fundamentals of fencing, including footwork, bladework, bouting...
Health & Medicine Public Health
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Sailing
Prof. Francis Charles
The purpose of this class is to tell you something about our Tech Dinghy and how to sail it. This OCW site is...
Health & Medicine Public Health
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Systems Neuroscience Lab
Prof. James DiCarlo
Systems Neuroscience Laboratory consists of a series of laboratories designed to give students experience with basic...
Biology Science & Math
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Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues
Prof. Dennis Freeman
In this subject, we consider two basic topics in cellular biophysics, posed here as questions: Which molecules are...
Biology Health & Medicine Pathology and Pathophysiology
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Cellular Neurophysiology
Prof. Guosong Liu
This course includes: Surveying the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal communication. Coversion channels...
Biology Health & Medicine Pathology and Pathophysiology
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SCUBA
Prof. Halston Taylor
This course will thoroughly educate the successful student with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a certified...
Health & Medicine Public Health
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Physical Intelligence
Noah Riskin
For all of the bodies attached to the many great minds that walk the Institute’s halls, in the work that goes on at...
Cognitive Science Health & Medicine Public Health
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Laboratory in Visual Cognition
Prof. Aude Oliva
9.63 teaches principles of experimental methods in human perception and cognition, including design and statistical...
Biomedical Technologies Cognitive Science Health & Medicine
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Drugs and the Brain
Zak Fallows
This class is a multidisciplinary introduction to pharmacology, neurotransmitters, drug mechanisms, and brain...
Biology Health & Medicine Pharmacology & Toxicology
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Functional MRI of High-Level Vision
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
We are now at an unprecedented point in the field of neuroscience: We can watch the human brain in action as it...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Health & Medicine
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Tennis
Prof. Carol Matsuzaki
The goals of this instructional course are to get you started in this wonderful sport and to give you a working...
Health & Medicine Public Health
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Science Writing and New Media: Perspectives on Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Cynthia Taft
Like other scientists, medical researchers and clinicians must be capable of presenting their work to an audience of...
Health & Medicine Humanities Literature
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Abnormal Language
Mr. Christopher Hirsch
Introduction to the linguistic study of language pathology, concentrating on experimental approaches and theoretical...
Cognitive Science Health Care Management Health & Medicine
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Experimental Molecular Biology: Biotechnology II
Prof. Christopher Burge
The course applies molecular biology and reverse genetics approaches to the study of apoptosis, or programmed cell...
Biological Engineering Biology Engineering
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Experimental Microbial Genetics
Prof. Dianne Newman
In this class, students engage in independent research projects to probe various aspects of the physiology of the...
Biology Science & Math
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Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission
Prof. Richard Wurtman
This course considers the process of neurotransmission, especially chemicals used in the brain and elsewhere to...
Biology Cognitive Science Health & Medicine
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Macroepidemiology (BE.102)
Prof. William Thilly
This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The...
Biology Health & Medicine Public Health
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Neural Basis of Movement
Prof. Chris Moore
Surveys general principles and specific examples of motor control in biological systems. Emphasizes the neural...
Biology Biomedical Technologies Health & Medicine
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Archery
Prof. Cheryl Silva
This 12 session course is designed for the beginning or novice archer and uses recurve indoor target bows and...
Health & Medicine Public Health
intermediate
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Parkinson's Disease Workshop
Prof. Suzanne Corkin
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive, degenerative disease of the brain that produces movement...
Biology Health & Medicine Imaging
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Physics of COVID-19 Transmission
Prof. Martin Bazant
This resource is a collection of videos taught using a LightBoard, a specialized glass that creates a transparent...
Chemical Engineering Engineering Health & Medicine
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AIDS and Poverty in Africa
Dr. Lee Perlman
This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and...
Health & Medicine International Development Public Health
intermediate