GMS 6007 - Spring 2008

Fundamentals of Neuroscience

  
Course Director:  Wolfgang J. Streit, Ph.D.
    **PLEASE NOTE - SCHEDULE DIFFERS FROM STANDARD CORE COURSE SCHEDULE**
Lectures: 
8:30 - 10:30 AM on Mondays (LG-101A),  Wednesdays (LG-110A except Jan 23) and Fridays (LG-101A)
Grand Rounds:
  Mondays at 4:00-5:00 PM  (LG-110A)
Reviews & Exams

Textbook:Neuroscience, 3rd Edition (2008)  Edited by Purves, Augustine, Fitzpatrick, Hall, LaMantia, McNamara and White, Sinauer Associates, Inc.  ISBN: 978-0-87893-697-7

 
Shown below is a table displaying the tentative dates, titles and instructors for all of the lectures,  and grand rounds for Spring 2008.  Subject titles are linked to outlines, reading and references.  Lecturers and discussion leaders are linked to e-mail addresses.  For course content, registered students should log-in to the core course site at WebCT Vista
            
Day Date Room Lecture Title Faculty
L1 Mon 1/7 LG-101A Introduction:  History of Neuroscience & Organization of the Nervous System W. Streit
GR1 Mon 1/7 LG-110A Introduction:  Basic Definitions, Structures, Terms W. Streit
L2 Wed 1/9 LG-110A Neural Signalling I:  Electrical & Chemical Signals L. Notterpek
S Thu 1/10 LG-101A IDP Seminar  
L3 Fri 1/11 LG-101A Neural signalling II:  The Synapse & Intracellular Events L. Notterpek
L4 Mon 1/14 LG-101A Special Senses: Vision B. Battelle
GR2 Mon 1/14 LG-110A Synaptic Plasticity-Age-Related Memory Loss A. Kumar
L5 Wed 1/16 LG-110A Chemical Senses:  Olfaction and Taste B. Ache
S Thu 1/17 LG-101A IDP Seminar  
L6 Fri 1/18 LG-101A Special Senses:  Audition D. Smith
  Mon 1/21   Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - No Classes  
L7 Wed 1/23 LG-101A Control of Motor Behavior R. Johnson
S Thu 1/24 LG-101A IDP Seminar  

L8

Fri 1/24 LG-101A Parkinson's & Huntington's R. Mandel

L9

Mon 1/28 LG-101A Higher Cortical Function C. Leonard

GR3

Mon 1/28 LG-110A An Overview of Neuroradiology R. Quisling

L10

Wed 1/30 LG-110A Memory T. Foster
S Thu 1/31 LG-101A IDP Seminar  

L11

Fri 2/1 LG-101A Nervous System Development D. Howland

L12

Mon 2/4 LG-101A Nervous System Plasticity J. Kleim

GR4

Mon 2/4 LG-110A Pathology of Neurodegeneration T. Eskin
Lab Wed 2/6 L1-110A Wet Lab (WJ Streit and friends)  
S Thu 2/7 LG-101A IDP Seminar  
  Fri 2/8 LG-101A Review session All faculty
         
Mon 2/11 LG-101A Final Exam (8:30 - 12:30)

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