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Courses » How the Brain Creates Mind

How the Brain Creates Mind

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course intends to introduce the human brain and its processes especially with regards to electrochemical activity, the issues of mind and consciousness. It also indicates towards further possibilities of research.
Anyone with an interest in Human brain can join. Just a basic understanding of Brain would suffice. It should be useful for students of Neurosciences, Psychology , Medical and people working at brain computer interface.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Any one interested in Psychology, Physics & The Brain

PRE-REQUISITES

Should watch the course links mentioned below

Biological basis of Behaviour-Prof.Braj Bhushan

A Beautiful Mind-Dr.Alok Bajpai


INDUSTRY SUPPORT – LIST OF COMPANIES/INDUSTRY THAT WILL RECOGNIZE/VALUE THIS ONLINE COURSE

Health; Psychology; Brain computer interface

2241 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR



Dr Alok Bajpai has been trained in Psychiatry at National Institute of Mental health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore. He did his DPM, MD and is currently practicing at Kanpur and is also the Psychiatrist with Counselling cell, IIT Kanpur. His research interest are in Physics of Brain, Sleep and EEG.
COURSE LAYOUT

week 1
Brain to Mind-- and how do we know it---
(essentially single neuron to multiple)
Brain and gross specialization --- areas , right-left , association ,connectivity and our tools to learn including  EEG 

week 2
Being Conscious -- Dynamics --- how do we learn about it from EEG

week 3
Cognition,Memory,Emotion -- Normal and Pathology .

week 4
Sleep
Brain and Future-- with interactive session


SUGGESTED READING

Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition2nd Edition
by Bernard J. Baars (Author), Nicole M. Gage (Author)

Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel))
by Eric R. Kandel and James H. Schwartz


MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE COURSE
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_hs07
Course duration : 4 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 18th July,2016 and 12th August,2016
Dates of exams : 18th September,2016 and 25th September,2016
Time of exam : 2PM - 5PM
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000(non-Programming) needs to be paid.

CERTIFICATE

E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur.

It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.