| GPLS 633 | Pathways in Neuroscience
Credits: 1
Course Master: This introductory reading course familiarizes students with classical and contemporary experiments and controversies that helped shape the field of neuroscience as a discipline. Key discoveries in anatomy, embryology, physiology, pharmacology, and psychology are examined in the context of their impact on the understanding of nerve cells, brain, and behavior. Topics include the neuron doctrine, cellular connectionism, animal electricity, electrical vs. chemical synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters and their receptors, neural trophism, synaptic plasticity, biochemistry of memory, and molecular basis of learning. Weekly one-hour lecture, with occasional laboratory demonstrations. Offered year round by special arrangement with identified neuroscience faculty.Offered in:
Fall;Spring;Summer;Winter |