About this series

In the 21st century, the field of neuroscience – studying the human brain – is drawing the best and brightest minds from computer science, medicine, engineering, psychology, biology, genetics, and ethics. Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain is a five-part series featuring interviews and demonstrations with neuroscientists from the country's top institutions, including MIT, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Washington University, all in service to the last – and greatest —frontier of science.