Brain Structure and Its Origins

Audio Lectures

Audio lectures for this course are presented below. The recording quality of this audio is the best available given the source. Please note that there is no audio available for Lecture 13, Lecture 19 (Midterm Exam), Lecture 20 (the sheep brain dissection), or taste and olfactory systems (covered by readings only).

1. Introduction: brain orientation, primitive cellular activities

2. Introduction: methods and primitive cellular activities

3. Steps to the CNS of chordates, part 1

4. Steps to the CNS of chordates, part 2

5. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 1

6. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 2

7. Spinal cord development and anatomy, part 1

8. Spinal cord development and anatomy, part 2

9. Autonomic nervous system; differentiation of the brain vesicles and intro to the hindbrain and segmentation

10. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 1: Hindbrain and cranial nerves, specializations

11. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 2: Developmental distortions; evolution of midbrain and forebrain; midbrain organization

12. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 3: Vertebrate forebrain evolution and organization

14. CNS differentiation and axon growth, part 2

15. Motor systems and brain states, part 1

16. Motor systems and brain states, part 2

17. Motor systems and brain states, part 3

18. Motor systems and brain states, part 4

21. Visual systems, part 1

22. Visual systems, part 2

23. Visual systems, part 3

24. Auditory systems, part 1

25. Auditory systems, part 2

26. Forebrain evolution

27. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 1

28. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 2

29. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 3

30. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 4

31. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 5

32. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 6

33. Corpus striatum, part 1

34. Corpus striatum, part 2

35. Neocortex, part 1

36. Neocortex, part 2

37. Neocortex, part 3

38. Plasticity in brain connections