Transcript

Let's talk about brains. Hi, my name is Bing Brenton, and I'm a neuroscientist at the University of Washington in Seattle. In this video, I'm going to introduce to you the next series of videos that comprise a university-level course on introduction to neuroscience. This is a course that I've taught several times at University of Washington, and so I'm going to talk to you about the topics we're going to cover, as well as my expectations and hopes for you in terms of what you'll get out of taking this course.

Now, I love teaching this course. This is one of my favorite things to do, and introducing neuroscience to people who are not yet neuroscientists. Maybe some of you will be inspired to become neuroscientists. And the reason I love talking about it so much is because neuroscience is such an interdisciplinary field that I get to talk not only about biology but about how neuroscience connects with almost everything else that you can think of, and this includes a lot of different sciences.