|
Monday
|
Tuesday
|
Wednesday
|
Thursday
|
Friday
|
|
September 29
|
September 29
|
September 30
|
October 1
|
October 2
|
|
|
|
Introduction
to the course. Membrane structure. Deriving the ionic behavior of the
nervous system from first principles. Nernst potentials. The major proteins
of membrane physiology.
(Lester)
|
Molecular
Biology Boot Session
Broad 8-9 PM
(Lester)
|
Voltage-dependent
channels and action potentials. Part I
(Lester)
|
|
|
|
Chapters
6-9
|
|
Chapters
6-9
|
|
October 5
|
October 6
|
October 7`
|
October 8
|
October 9
|
|
Voltage-dependent
channels and action potentials. Part II
(Lester)
|
Electrophysiology
Boot Session
Broad 8-9 PM
(Lester)
|
Synapses,
Part I: Presynaptic Transmitter release
(Lester)
|
Discussion
Section
|
Synapses,
Part II: The acetylcholine receptor and organization of the neuromuscular
junction
(Lester)
|
|
Chapters
6-9
|
Problem Set 1
|
Chapters
14 & 15
|
|
Chapter
11
|
|
October 12
|
October 13
|
October 14
|
October 15
|
October 16
|
|
Inhibition;
electrical integration of signals; cable properties of dendrites and and
axons
(Lester)
|
Problem Set 1 Due at 4:30 PM
|
Dendritic
excitability, Inward rectifiers, Glia
(Lester)
|
Discussion
Section
|
AMPA receptors and GABA
receptors: organization of CNS synapses
(Kennedy)
|
|
Chapters
2 & 12
|
Problem Set 2
|
|
|
Chapters
12
|
|
October 19
|
October 20
|
October 21
|
October 22
|
October 23
|
|
Synaptic Plasticity; LTP
and LTD
(Kennedy)
|
Problem
Set 2 Due at 4:30 PM
|
NMDA Receptors; the
biochemistry of synaptic plasticity
(Kennedy)
|
Discussion
Section
|
The
G protein pathway in neuroscience
(Lester)
|
|
Chapters
13 & 63
|
Problem Set 3
|
Chapters
12 & 63
|
|
Chapter
13
|
|
October 26
|
October 27
|
October 28
|
October 29
|
October 30
|
|
Development
of the Nervous system #1
(Lester)
|
Problem
Set 3 Due at 4:30 PM
|
Development
of the Nervous system #2
(Lester)
MIDTERM
|
No
Discussion Section
|
Anatomy of the CNS
(Adolphs)
|
|
Chapters
52 through 56
|
|
Chapters
52 through 56
|
|
Chapters
17, 18, first half of 19
|
|
November 2
|
November 3
|
November 4
|
November 5
|
November 6
|
|
Vision;
the retina and detection of light
(Lester)
|
|
MIDTERM
DUE at 4:30 PM
The Visual System From retina to
visual cortex
(Adolphs)
|
Discussion
Section
|
Visual System; cortical processing
and object recognition
(Adolphs)
Hubel
& Wiesel video
Optic
ataxia video
|
|
Chapter
26
|
|
Chapters
21 & 27
|
|
Chapter
25
|
|
November 9
|
November 10
|
November 11
|
November 12
|
November 13
|
|
The auditory system
(Adolphs)
|
|
The Somatosensory System
(Adolphs)
|
Discussion
Section
|
The
Olfactory System
(Lester)
|
|
Chapter
30
|
Problem Set 4
|
Chapter
22
|
|
Chapter
32
|
|
November 16
|
November 17
|
November 18
|
November 19
|
November 20
|
|
The
motor system
(Adolphs)
|
Problem
Set 4 Due at 4:30 PM
|
Learning
and Memory I Types of Memory; non-declarative memory
(Adolphs)
|
Discussion
Section
|
Learning
and Memory II Declarative Memory and modulation of memory
(Adolphs)
|
|
Chapters
38, 42 & 43
|
Problem
Set 5
|
Chapter
62
|
|
Chapter
62
|
|
November 23
|
November 24
|
November 25
|
November 26
|
November 27
|
|
Aminergic
Systems, Mood and Depression
(Kennedy)
|
Problem
Set 5 Due at 4:30 PM
|
Emotion and Social
Behavior
(Adolphs)
|
|
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
|
|
Chapter
61
|
Problem Set 6
|
Chapters
49 & 50
|
|
|
|
November 30
|
December 1
|
December 2
|
December 3
|
December 4
|
|
Schizophrenia
(Lester)
|
Problem
Set 6 Due at 4:30 PM
|
Neurodegenerative
Disorders Alzheimer's disease
And
Parkinson’s
Disease
(Lester)
|
|
Current
Resarch in Neuroscience
(Kennedy, Lester,
Adolphs)
|
|
Chapter
60
|
|
Chapter
58
|
|
Final Exam
DUE December 11 at
5:00 PM
|
