Neuroscience 500 : Undergraduate Neurobiology Seminar (1 credit)
Syllabus (hard copy here)
Jan 28 Banks Anesthesiology mibanks@facstaff Temporal processing in auditory cortex:
from receptors to behavior
Feb 4 Garell Neurosurgery garell@neurosurg Physiology of Parkinson’s disease
11 Bach-y-Rita Rehab. Medicine pbachyri@facstaff Late brain plasticity
18 Bakshi Psychiatry vbakshi@facstaff Preclinical models for psychiatric illness
25 Fabry Pathology zfabry@facstaff Autoimmunity in the central nervous system
Mar 4 Meyerand Medical Physics memeyerand@facstaff A new tool for imaging in neuroscience:
functional MRI
11 Stafstrom Neurology stafstrom@neurology Epilepsy and brain development
18 Spring break
25 Watters Comp. Biosciences jjwatters@facstaff Extracellular adenine nucleotide signal
transduction in microglial cells:
implications
for ischemic brain injury
Apr 1 Pearce Anesthesiology rapearce@facstaff Anesthesia, amnesia, and GABA-A receptors
8 Robertson Physiology robertson@physiology Ion channelopathies and molecular mechanisms of long QT syndrome
15 Epstein Anatomy mepstein@facstaff Studies of the migration
and development of enteric crest cells
22 Tononi Psychiatry gtononi@facstaff Consciousness and the brain
29 Behan Comp. Biosciences behanm@svm.vetmed A spotlight on gender and
the neural control of breathing
May 6 No meeting Papers due
