Introductory Neurobiology - ZOO332H1S

Jan. - April 2003

TITLES OF LECTURES 

(Note: Each lecture below is delivered as two 50 min lectures or one 2 hour lecture.)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Neurobiology - General Properties of Neurons (morphological, functional, electrical)

Lecture 2: Channels, Resting and Action Potentials

Lecture 3: Resting and Action Potentials - Experimental Evidence

Lecture 4: Insect Nervous System and Escape Behaviour in the Cockroach

Lecture 5: Fast Synaptic Transmission (Part 1)

Lecture 6: Fast Synaptic Transmission (Part 2)

Lecture 7: Neurotransmitters and their Release - Synaptic Vesicle Hypothesis

Lecture 8: Indirect Synaptic Transmission

                 Supplementary on Techniques: Autoradiography and in situ hybridization

Lecture 9: Follow up to Indirect Synaptic Transmission and Myasthenia Gravis

Lecture 9b: Part 1: Properties and Functions of Neuroglial Cells;

                  Part 2: Spatial Organization of Sensory Inputs, and Another Level of Complexity in the Well Modulated Cockroach.

Lecture 10: Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) in the Nervous System

Lecture 11: Learning and Memory - Aplysia Model and Mechanisms

Lecture 12: Flex Lecture

Lecture 13: Myelination Revisited;  Integrins and Demyelinating Models and Diseases of the Nervous System