Harvard Medical School Office of Communications & External Relations

The senses make it possible to explore our surroundings and communicate in the world, but do you understand their role in the body? At this Longwood Seminar, a panel of Harvard faculty members who specialize in each of the five senses share their expertise on touch, vision, hearing, smell and taste, and discuss ways the senses can be leveraged to affect our health.

1. Beyond Belief
2. It's All In Your Head
3. The Power of Zzzzs
4. Demystifying Nutrition
5. Living Long, Living Well: Aging With Flourish
6. Food for Thought: Genetically Modified Nourishment
7. From Vision to Touch: Exploring the Five Senses
8. The Race to Grace: Surviving Stress
9. Patience and Patients: Understanding the Spectrum of Alzheimer's Disease
10. Singing in the Shower to Shaking in Your Boots: The Science of Emotion
11. Panning for Therapeutic Gold: Cancer Genetics

Harvard Medical School faculty members discuss topics ranging from meditation to aging in these mini-med school classes for the public.