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Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)

By Brian Knutson - Stanford
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  • Fall 2008
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

Stanford University's Brian Knutson is unraveling the mysteries of human desire with state-of-the-art medical imaging. Knutson's research sheds new light on how individuals make complex financial decisions, and offers new ways for alleviating schizophrenia.

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond)
  2. Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)
  3. Brain to Computer Interfaces
  4. Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth)
  5. Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)
  6. Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)
  7. Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)