Neuroscience Fundamentals
Twelve-chapter textbook on how neurons signal, how synapses communicate and learn, and how the brain builds vision, hearing, touch, pain, and movement.
Course videos
Watch the introduction (with learners studying from home), then study chapter by chapter. Midterm and final sessions teach the material with practice questions you must answer to continue — those checkpoints are not graded.
Narration · Professor Ryan · British English
ForgEd · Introduction
Neuroscience Fundamentals · Course introduction
How this course is organized, how to study with the textbook and quizzes, and what you will be able to do when you finish.
Watch the intro or continue when you are ready. Chapter 1 stays locked until you continue.
Complete each chapter's 5-question quiz (instant feedback), then pass the 10-question course review, then the 20-question final exam (score at the end) to earn course completion on your profile.
ForgEd courses are for general education and logical foundations. They do not replace professional certification, licensure, or cert-level competence.
Skills you will gain
- Neural Signaling
- Synapses & Circuits
- Learning & Memory
- Sensory & Motor Systems
Chapters
- 1
Chapter 1: Neurons and the Architecture of the Nervous System
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- 2
Chapter 2: The Resting Membrane Potential
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- 3
Chapter 3: Passive Membrane Properties and Electrical Recording
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- 4
Chapter 4: The Action Potential
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- 5
Chapter 5: How Signals Travel: Action Potential Propagation
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- 6
Chapter 6: Synaptic Transmission
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- 7
Chapter 7: Receptors, Second Messengers, and Neuromodulation
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- 8
Chapter 8: Synaptic Integration and Neural Circuits
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- 9
Chapter 9: Learning, Memory, and Synaptic Plasticity
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- 10
Chapter 10: Vision
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Chapter 11: Hearing, Balance, and the Chemical Senses
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- 12
Chapter 12: Touch, Pain, and Movement
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