Paradigms of Brain Function

By Dr Basmaa Ali, Dr Suleman Shahid and Dr Nasir Raza Awan
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Duration

28 weeks

Language

Bilingual

Course Access

Eternity

Certificate

None

Paradigms of Brain Function

By Dr Basmaa Ali, Dr Suleman Shahid and Dr Nasir Raza Awan
Coming Soon

About this Course

This course aims to give its students a  functional organization of the brain as well as the hierarchies and constituencies within the mind. The course examines organizational, cellular and molecular neuroscience of perception, cognition, sleep, memory, movement, and processing of information gathered by the sensory organs. Using this information, it highlights how this foundational understanding of the brain will help in designing better human computer
interaction.

What will you learn

This multidisciplinary course will equip students to find scientific questions from their own fascination with the world and how to convert that experience into working hypotheses which can be explored further with scientific methods of experimentation. The course teaches how to work in teams and how to build intra and cross-disciplinary collaborations, which are essential to a career in science.

I cannot teach you emotion directly, I can only teach it to you by making you feel some of these things and look at the contrast between them.

Course Outline

Week 1
This week sets the foundation of the course by discussing the basis of neuroscience. In addition, the students will learn about the hierarchies within brain function shedding light on the redundancies and complementary collaborations within the brain.
Week 2
This week is all about perception. Based in our visionary and oratory circuits, the students will learn about the processes of hearing and seeing as well as sense of touch, smell, taste, pain and so on. The students will also gain a higher-level understanding of sensory perception and contextualizing sensory input from the brain and body.
Week 3
This week the students will learn about language, speech communication as well as design for disabilities. In addition to this, the students will understand the philosophy of punishment and reward and the neural pathways which enable us to make sense of pain and pleasure.
Week 4
This week is about movement: movement is so effortless for healthy individuals that we don’t automatically appreciate the complexity of the process in our bodies. The students will also learn how the brain is basically a movement stimulator for the body.

Instructors

Dr Basmaa Ali

Instructor in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Dr Nasir Raza Awan

Adjunct Faculty,
LUMS

Dr Suleman Shahid

Assistant Professor,
Syed Babar Ali School of
Science and Engineering,
LUMS

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