Subsections
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- Introduction to the nervous systems of humans and other animals.
- Electrical properties of nerve cells and voltage dependent membrane
permeability.
- Channels, transporter, neurotransmitters and their receptors.
- Synaptic transmission.
- Cellular and biochemical processes within neurons.
- The changing brain: Early brain development, construction of neural
circuits, plasticity of synapses and circuits.
- Basics of sensation and sensory processing: Visual system, auditory
system, olfactory system, somatosensory system and pain.
- Basics of complex brain functions and related disorders: Language and
speech, sleep and wakefulness, emotions, memory, sex and sexuality.
- D. Purves, G. J. Augustine, D. Fitzpatrick, W. C. Hall, A. S.
LaMantia, J. O. McNamara and L. E. White (eds), Neuroscience 4th
Edn., Sinauer Associates, Inc. (2008).
- E. Kandel, J. Schwartz and T. Jessell (eds), Principles of Neural
Science, 4th Edn., McGraw-Hill (2000).
- J. G. Nicholls, A. R. Martin, B. G. Wallace and P. A. Fuchs,
From Neuron to Brain, 4th Edn., Sinauer Associates Inc. (2001).
