This tutorial covers the implementation of logistic regression, a special case of GLMs used to model binary outcomes. Oftentimes the variable you would like to predict takes only one of two possible values. Left or right? Awake or asleep? Car or bus? In this tutorial, we will decode a mouse's left/right decisions from spike train data.

In this video, Ki-Jun Yoon discusses functional distribution of chemical modifications on RNA — or epitranscriptomic modifications — during the development of the nervous system.

Walter Glannon is a professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Bioethics and the Brain and Brain, Body and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face, and the editor of Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives.