Principles of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

4 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course will introduce students to the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow nervous systems to generate signals, and how these signals are used. Among the topics that will be covered are how information in the environment is transformed into electrical signals, how axons rapidly carry electrical information over long distances, how neurons communicate with each other at synapses, how the nervous system develops and how the brain's synaptic networks extract useful information to give rise to conscious perceptions and to movements.