Neurophysiology

3 credits · Undergraduate

Electrical mechanisms within the nervous system and the lab techniques used to investigate them. Principles of current flow; basis of the resting potential; structure and function of voltage-gated and neurotransmitter-gated ion channels; generation and propagation of action potentials; circuit model of a neuron. Prerequisite: 2201. Not open to students who completed NSC 3891 section 02 Neurophysiology offered fall 2022, fall 2021, fall 2020. [3] (MNS)