Medical Neuroscience

Description

In this course, you will :

• Discover the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion, and cognition-related faculties
• The overall goal of this course is to lay the groundwork for understanding the sensation, action, and cognition impairments that accompany central nervous system injury, disease, or dysfunction.
• As we focus on the central nervous system, we will build on knowledge gained from prior studies in cell and molecular biology, general physiology, and human anatomy.

Syllabus :

• Getting Started in Medical Neuroscience
• Neuroanatomy: Introducing the Human Brain
• Neuroanatomy: Surface Anatomy of the Human CNS
• Neuroanatomy: Internal Anatomy of the Human CNS
• Neural Signaling: Electrical Excitability and Signal Propagation
• Neural Signaling: Synaptic Transmission and Synaptic Plasticity
• Sensory Systems: General Principles and Somatic Sensation
• Sensory Systems: The Visual System
• Sensory Systems: Audition, Vestibular Sensation and the Chemical Senses
• Movement and Motor Control: Lower and Upper Motor Neurons
• Movement and Motor Control: Understanding the Paradigm of Eye Movements
• Movement and Motor Control: Modulation of Movement
• Movement and Motor Control: Visceral Motor Control
• The Changing Brain: The Brain Across the Lifespan
• Complex Brain Functions: Associational Cortex
• Complex Brain Functions: Sleep, Emotion and Addiction