First Year Courses
Neurobiology
Neurobiology meets five days a week. Lectures run for 50-minutes three days per week, and for two hours on the other two days. In addition, there are ten lab and six clinical correlation sessions during the quarter, each lasting about an hour-and-a-half. The specific goals of the course are to help students understand the electrical properties of neurons and the fundamentals of synaptic transmission, learn the anatomical structure of the central nervous system, its development, and its appearance in clinical images, learn the anatomical and physiological features of the major sensory and motor pathways, learn how neurotransmitters are synthesized, packaged, released and how they affect their target tissues. The exams are multiple choice.
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