Connecting Neurons to Shape Behavior

Harvard FAS

The brain is constantly changing. Brain development continues over the course of an individual’s life, undergoing many steps of embryonic events, postnatal maturation, learning, and aging. Thus, our current thinking, sensing, and moving is structured by an enormous history of individual development. In this course, students will learn how the brain develops to shape our social and affective decision-making, with a focus on the neural mechanism of brain maturation. We will discuss how early…