Time: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
| Date | Week # | Title | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/03/2023 | 1 | Welcome/Course Intro/The World of Neurobiology | |
| I. Development | |||
| 10/17/2023 | 2 | Brain Development: Intrinsic and Extrinsic factors | Tomomi Shimogori |
| 10/31/2023 | 3 | Neural stem cells in the embryonic and adult brain | Ryoichiro Kageyama |
| 11/07/2023 | 4 | Genetic encoding of neuron identity and connectivity | Adrian Moore |
| II. Sensory Systems and Integration | |||
| 11/14/2023 | 5 | Sensation and Memory in C. elegans | Asuka Takeishi |
| 11/21/2023 | 6 | Drosophila Sensory/Motor Neurobiology | Terufumi Fujiwara |
| 12/05/2023 | 7 | Journal Club 1 | |
| 12/12/2023 | 8 | Somatosensory system | Masanori Murayama |
| 12/19/2023 | 9 | Attention, Working Memory, and Executive Control in Perceptual Processing | Lukas Schmitt |
| 01/09/2024 | 10 | Olfaction | Hokto Kazama |
| III. Circuit, cells and behavior | |||
| 01/16/2024 | 11 | Emotion | Joshua Johansen |
| 01/23/2024 | 12 | Computational Neuroscience | Louis Kang |
| 01/30/2024 | 13 | Learning and memory | Thomas McHugh |
| 02/06/2024 | 14 | Mid-term exam | |
| 02/13/2024 | 15 | Glia | Jun Nagai |
| 02/20/2024 | 16 | Theoretical Models | Taro Toyoizumi |
| 02/27/2024 | 17 | Free energy principle | Takuya Isomura |
| 03/05/2024 | 18 | Deep Learning | Henrik Skibbe |
| IV. Disease | |||
| 03/12/2024 | 19 | Amyloid biology | Motomasa Tanaka |
| 03/19/2024 | 20 | Journal Club 2 | |
| 04/02/2024 | 21 | Schizophrenia | Akiko Hayashi-Takagi |
| 04/09/2024 | 22 | Alzheimer’s disease | Hiroki Sasaguri |
| 04/16/2024 | 23 | Autism | Aya Ito-Ishida |
| V. The Human Brain | |||
| 04/23/2024 | 24 | Behavioral Methods | Kazuhisa Shibata |
| 05/07/2024 | 25 | Sleep | Masako Tamaki |
| 05/14/2024 | 26 | Studying Consciousness | Hakwan Lau |
| 05/21/2024 | 27 | Decision Making | Kentaro Miyamoto |
| 05/28/2024 | 28 | Social Neuroscience | Takahiko Koike |
| 06/04/2024 | 29 | Final exam | |
| 06/11/2024 | 30 | Course Review / Graduation Ceremony | |