Neurobiology Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1-Course Overview
• Structure of the Nervous System
• Ionic Basis of Resting Potential
• Ionic Basis of the Action Potential
• Propagation of the Action Potential
• Properties of Voltage-Dependent Ion Channels
• Introduction to Synaptic Transmission
• Release of Neurotransmitter and the Role of Ca
• Axonal Transport
• Vesicular Release
• Postsynaptic Action of Neurotransmitters
• Neurotransmitters
• Ligand-gated ion channels
• G-protein coupled receptors: cyclic AMP
• G-protein coupled receptors,continued: cGMP, Ca, InsP3, Arachidonic acid
• Drugs and Mental Illness
• The Somatic Sensory System
• Pain Perception
• Development of the nervous system--introduction
• Neurite Outgrowth and Guidance
• Programmed Cell Death and the Neurotrophic Hypothesis
• Memory and Learning in a "Simple" Nervous System--Aplysia
• Plasticity in the Adult Nervous System; Memory, LTP and LTD
• Drugs of Abuse
• Neurological Diseases I
• Neurological Diseases II

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Created by Gary Reiness

Last updated April 22, 2005