Fundamentals of Neuroscience II

4 credits · Graduate School

This is the second part of a two-semester course required for all Neuroscience graduate students. Parts I and II can be taken individually as electives for medical students and graduate students in other programs. The goal is for students to learn the fundamental molecular, cellular and systems bases underlying the function of the nervous system in normal and pathological conditions. The course introduces major neuroscience methods and spans topics across sensory systems, attention, working memory and higher executive functions, motivation and emotion, learning and memory, and social cognition and language. FALL [4]