Classes: Ongoing and Past
University of California, Berkeley: Department of Neuroscience,
Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive Science,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Letters & Science
Brain, Mind, & Behavior: Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience (MCB C61 / PSYCH C61)
Winter-Spring Semester, 1997 to present (2024) (enrollment: ~600 students per semester)
Online version (MCB W61), every Summer Session, 2008 to present (2024)
Syllabus: Brain, Mind, & Behavior, Winter-Spring 2020
Drugs and the Brain (MCB C62 / L&S C30T / PSYCH C19)
College of Letters & Science Discovery Course
Fall Semester, 2000 to present (2024) (enrollment: ~600 students per semester)
Syllabus: Drugs and the Brain, Fall 2022
Expanding a Science of Consciousness (COGSCI 190) (2021 and 2023)
Special Topics in Cognitive Science
Art of Writing Program, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Neuroscience of Psychedelics (MCB 290): Graduate Seminar (2020)
Synaptic Pharmacology to Consciousness (MCB 290): Graduate Seminar (Multiple years)
Matter, Mind, Consciousness (MCB 90E): Freshman Seminar
Every Semester, 2010 to present (2023) (enrollment: ~15 students per semester)
Syllabus: Matter, Mind, Consciousness, Spring 2022
Consciousness: Buddhist and Neuroscientific Perspectives (Letters & Science 124)
Periodically (2014, 2017) co-taught with Robert Sharf, UC Berkeley Buddhist Studies
College of Letters & Science Big Ideas Course
Syllabus: Consciousness, Winter-Spring 2017
Mindfulness and Meditation: An Introduction (Letters & Science 54)
Fall semester, 2018 (enrollment: ~80 students)
Molecular Neurobiology and Neurochemistry (MCB 165)
Winter-Spring Semester, 1991 to 2013 (enrollment: ~100 students per semester)
Syllabus: Neurochemistry, Winter-Spring 2013
Music and the Brain (MCB 90E): Freshman Seminar
Every Semester, 2006 to 2010 (enrollment: ~20 students per semester)
Ethical Issues in Neuroscience (MCB 84): Sophomore Seminar
One-time course, 2003 (co-taught with Richard Ivry, Psychology Department)
Foods, Drugs, Moods, and Mystics: Current Issues in Science, Health, and Policy (L&S 23)
One-time course, 2001 (co-taught with Tom Carlson, Integrative Biology Department)
edX-BerkeleyX-BCSP public-education online course
Psychedelics and the Mind (created in 2023)
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program
Science, Neuroscience, and Psychedelics (program inception in 2022 to present)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Your Brain and Mind on Plants and Drugs
6 lectures: September to November 2019, ~125 students
Consciousness: The Final Frontier
4 lectures: June 2018, ~200 students
Dimensions of Silence in the Human Experience
Collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum and their exhibition on "Silence"
Co-faciltator with Susan Hoffman, Director of UCB OLLI, Winter 2013
Brain, Mind, Perception, and Consciousness
6 lectures: Fall 2010, ~120 students
Your Brain on Plants
6 lectures: Fall 2008, ~50 students
Extension Program, University of California, Berkeley
Advances in Human Brain Science for Clinicians
Twice every year as a 7-hour (in one day) class (1995-2020)
Practical Clinical Psychopharmacology: From A to Z (Adderall to Caffeine to Zoloft)
Periodically as a 1-day class (1995-2020)
Assessment and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Problems
Formerly every year as a 2-day class, now periodically (1995-2010)
Psychotropic Medications and Drugs of Abuse
Periodically as a 1-day class (1995-2015)
Science for Monks and Nuns, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Neuroscience education, curriculum development, and research in a program working with Tibetan Buddhist monastics in India (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2023), Bhutan (2016, 2019), and Nepal (2018).
California Institiute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco
Certificate Program in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research
Foundational training in neuroscience, special topics in the neurobiology of psychedelics, ongoing programmatic counsultation and assistance, and individual and group clinical mentoring. Program inception in 2016 to present (2023).
Postgraduate Program in Clinical Psychopharmacology, California School of Professional Psychology / Alliant University, San Francisco
Core faculty member from the time of this program's inception in 1999, through 2010.
Instruction in biochemistry, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and chemical dependency, provided to clinical psychologists interested in the possibility of prescribing psychotropic medications.
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, and University of California Medical School, San Francisco
Clinical faculty in psychiatry: Intensive clinical supervision and other instruction to APA psychology interns, UCSF medical students, and UCSF psychiatry residents (1990-2000).