Course Overview

After course completion, student has the knowledge about/knows how
to/is able to:

- Demonstrate an understanding of the structural and functional
organization of the nervous system and its relations with other
systems.  - Obtain a series of histological brain sections and the
application of conventional immunocytochemical techniques. The student
will be able to mount a complete series of rat brain and apply
conventional histochemistry and immunocytochemistry techniques.  -
Be able to define the major divisions of the brain in histological
sections  - Ability to assign a particular region or cerebral core
to any of the functional systems  - Ability to discriminate
subdivisions within a region based on the distribution of certain
markers - Organize information effectively in public exhibitions on
functional systems  - Demonstrate ability to solve theoretical and
related to the subject under study practical issues.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

Applicants should have basis in Biology at the Bachelor level.

Grading Philosophy

- Formative assessment through online activities - Summative
assessment at the final exam (2h)

Course schedule

The course is organized in 6 tracks and each track is opened every
week untl completion of the course. For each track, an opening session
is delivered by visioconference in which a basic explanation of the
topic is delivered. Also some documents are available for the
studdents and a set of activities to work these basic concepts. The
activities becomes closed at the end of each week and evaluated. At
the end of the course a general evaluation process is delivered.

The course is aimed at study the basic structure of the nervous system
and the general connections between its components subserving neural
function including:

- General organization of the nervous system  - Information flow in
the nervous system - Chemical neuroanatomy: glutamatergic systems,
GABAergic, cholinergic, serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic,
nitrergic, peptidergic - Somatosensory pathway, receptors  -
Somatosensory pathways anterolateral system and epicritic
sensitivity  - Vestibular system and proprioception. - Cerebellum
Auditory System, cochlea  - Auditory centers of the brainstem,
thalamus and cortex, tonotopy  - Visual pathways: visual centers and
representation of space in the retina, thalamus, and cortex, centers
for eye movements  - Gustatory system and baroreceptors  - Central
pathways  - Olfactory systems: olfactory mucosa, olfactory tract 
- Motor systems: Common motor final pathway - Extrapyramidal
pathways  - Cognitive systems: Hippocampus, entorhinal cortex,
neocortex. subcortical circuits and attention  - Emotional systems:
Amygdala, prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum, thalamus nucleus
accumbens - Metabolic homeostatic systems  - Circumventricular
hypothalamic nuclei - Brainstem Circadian regulation systems -
Circuits of the sleep-wake succession

Course type

Online course with videoconferences and online activities on a dedicated Moodle platform. - Lectures: 12h - Seminar: 12h - Tutorials: 16h - Personal work: 185h (including continuous assessment)

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

- Selection of applications first through the EMN-Online website, then
through the Apoflux procedure. - Students must be autonomous and
prepared for online courses.



Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: E-learning: video conferences, recorded courses, flipped classroom, Moodle platform

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