How Your Brain Works: A User’s Guide to Neuropsychology

Podcast-style audio course - 15 Topics
Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
Hope College
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How does your brain work?

This 15-lecture audio course will increase your excitement and wonder about the mysterious organ responsible for so many of the invisible but important things (like love, personality, and emotion) that make us who we are.

The field of neuroscience is booming, heralding bold new discoveries and fresh insights into human nature, our behaviors, the mind–body connection, and even artificial intelligence.

Now, How Your Brain Works: A User’s Guide to Neuropsychology gives you exactly the sort of orientation you need to contextualize these discoveries and understand your brain.

Your guide is Professor Gerald D. Griffin (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), winner of several awards from national research institutions and of the Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award at Hope College.

You will find that Prof. Griffin brings an infectious energy to every lecture. He makes you appreciate what a fascinating and multidisciplinary field neuroscience is—building on the discoveries of biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology to arrive at new understandings of the nervous system and behavior.

Though this course, you will gain a better understanding of

How does your brain work?

This 15-lecture audio course will increase your excitement and wonder about the mysterious organ responsible for so many of the invisible but important things (like love, personality, and emotion) that make us who we are.

The field of neuroscience is booming, heralding bold new discoveries and fresh insights into human nature, our behaviors, the mind–body connection, and even artificial intelligence.

Now, How Your Brain Works: A User’s Guide to Neuropsychology gives you exactly the sort of orientation you need to contextualize these discoveries and understand your brain.

Your guide is Professor Gerald D. Griffin (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), winner of several awards from national research institutions and of the Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award at Hope College.

You will find that Prof. Griffin brings an infectious energy to every lecture. He makes you appreciate what a fascinating and multidisciplinary field neuroscience is—building on the discoveries of biology, chemistry, physics, and psychology to arrive at new understandings of the nervous system and behavior.

Though this course, you will gain a better understanding of how the chemistry, structure, and electrical connections of your brain give rise to complex perceptions and behavior. By the end, you will understand how a multitude of small, delicate changes in the nervous system shape your reality.

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Prof. Gerald D. Griffin is an award-winning professor and expert on behavioral neuroscience. He received the Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award at Hope College and was selected as an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine (2019). Prof. Griffin earned his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania as a student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group. During his time as a graduate student and postdoctoral researcher, he authored six publications in the area of behavioral neuroscience and obtained several awards from national research entities such as the Endocrine Society and the National Institutes of Health. Before coming to Hope College, Prof. Griffin taught at Tuskegee University. As a faculty member, he has published more than ten articles with his students, mentored many others, and participated in science education outreach opportunities such as Brain Bee and Kids Judge! Neuroscience.

Praise for Gerald Griffin

“Dr. Gerald Griffin is an excellent facilitator in and outside of the classroom. He is innovative and passionate about student learning and success. We worked together and created our department’s first NeuroBeat Cafe, a journal club for undergraduates to explore the intersection of neuroscience and cardiovascular physiology. His innovation was responsible for the creation of the first-year undergraduate Cell and Genetic Biology debates. He taught a neuroscience course and remained after hours for weekly tutorial sessions. We co-mentored Ph.D. students who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM. These students are completing postdocs and Dr. Griffin was an integral component of their success story.”
– Chastity N. Bradford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Tuskegee University

  • Introduction to the Nervous System
  • Thoughts Start Here: Neuronal Structure
  • Talking Ions: The Voltage of Neurons
  • Brains on Drugs: An Introduction to Neurochemistry
  • Sight and Vision
  • Hearing and Balance
  • Motivated Behaviors
  • The Neuroscience of Sociality: Bonding and Reproduction
  • Fear and Anxiety
  • Fight or Flight: Lessons from the Autonomic Nervous System
  • The Neuroscience of Mood and Affect
  • Attention and Consciousness
  • Schizophrenia: Lessons in Neurodevelopment
  • Learning about Learning: Memory and Recall
  • In Sickness and In Health: How Immune Status Impacts the Br

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