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What will we discover?

Introduction to the course.

Welcome! In this video Craig introduces some key themes for the course and lets us know what topics we’ll be covering each week.

Week 1 – Brain biology

Week 2 – Risk factors

Week 3 – Brain research

Week 4 – Global movement

When you are finished on this step, click the ‘Mark as complete’ button before clicking the right arrow to move on.

You can return to this step at any point later on for a refresher. You’ll also find the glossary at step 1.17, which you can visit at any time to check up on unfamiliar terms.

Let’s move on to our next step to meet the educators that will be guiding us through this course and to say hello to your fellow classmates.

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