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MIT OpenCourseWare
Neuroscience and Society
Art: Lantern Slide - Cross-Section of Watt's Rotative Double-Acting…, Circa 1782 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Natasha Schüll
- Term
- Spring 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 13 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.010 Neuroscience and Society, Spring 2010, Prof. Natasha Schüll — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Assignments
13 files
- General guidelines for paper assignments Download
- “Racing to Conclusions: Neuroscience in the News” by Evan Schneider Download
- “Neuroscience on the Brain” by Anikia Tucker Download
- “Neuroscience in the News” by anonymous MIT student Download
- Guidelines for Paper 2 Download
- “Neuroscience, Gender, and a Scientific Career” by Jacqueline Rogoff Download
- “Wired Morality: Neuroscience’s Unsettling of Traditional Moral Thought” by Jeremy Steeger Download
- “Mirror Neurons: How Neuroscience Is Challenging the Way People Understand Each Other” by anonymous MIT student Download
- “Playing Cupid: On the Brain and Love” by Jason A. Scott Download
- Guidelines for Paper 3 Download
- “The Role of Neuroscience on Addiction and Society” by Juliann Lajoie Download
- “The Medicalization of Normality and the Ethical Debate behind Brain Enhancement” by anonymous MIT student Download
- “Decision and Preference in Neuromarketing” by anonymous MIT student Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Neuroscience in historical context I
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Lecture 3: Neuroscience in historical context II
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Lecture 4: Picturing the brain (neuroimaging) Guest Lecture by Hans Breiter, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Lecture 5: Public circulation of brain images
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Lecture 6: Computer as brain, brain as computer
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Lecture 7: Rational brain, impulsive brain
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Lecture 8: The moral brain
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Lecture 9: The empathic brain (social neuroscience) Guest lecture by Susan Lanzoni, PhD
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Lecture 10: Finding God in the brain (neurotheology)
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Lecture 11: The brain on love
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Lecture 12: Male and female brains
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Lecture 13: Homosexual brains
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Lecture 14: The addicted brain
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Lecture 15: The stressed brain
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Lecture 16: Prejudice in the brain? _Guest lecture by Emile Bruneau, PhD _
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Lecture 17: Violence in the brain?
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Lecture 18: Brains on the stand Guest lecture by Ruth Greenberg, Esq.
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Lecture 19: Crime and punishment Guest lecture by Monty Brower, M.D.
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Lecture 20: Disciplining the brain
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Lecture 21: Treating the brain
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Lecture 22: Enhancing the brain Guest lecture by Emily Wanderer, graduate student in MIT Science, Techology and Society
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Lecture 23: The consumer brain
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Lecture 24: Branding the brain (neuromarketing) Guest speaker: Nate Greenslit, PhD
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Lecture 25: Neuroethics
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Lecture 26: Final reflections
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