Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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BIOS 5130 - Neuroscience


This course is an overview of the structure and function of the human nervous system. It provides students with a basic understanding of the molecular and cellular basis of neural communication, the development of the nervous system, the brain systems underlying human behavior (e.g., sensation and perception, movement, memory, sleep and arousal, and emotion) and the consequences of neurological damage to these systems.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to use concepts in chemistry and physics to understand the underpinnings of communication between neurons.
  • Students will be able to explain how signal transduction pathways are crucial in relaying signals.
  • Students will be able to classify an organism¿s mechanisms for sensing internal changes in body position and external changes in the environment.
  • Students will be able to analyze how organisms use chemical and electrical signaling to coordinate responses at the neuron, neural circuit, and neural systems levels.
  • Students will be able to explain how sensory, motor and cognitive functions are compartmentalized into different neural systems, with neurons and circuits that support specialized activities.
  • Students will be able to explain how organisms have complex systems that integrate sensory information, incorporate feedback control, and allow them to create behaviors to respond to changes in the environment.
  • Students will be able to analyze how a neuron¿s response depends on the integration and coordination of a complex array of chemical, physical and electrical signals that vary in time, location, and intensity.
  • Students will be able to compare the different ways in which sensory information is transduced into electrical activity in the nervous system.
  • Students will be able to hypothesize what functional impairments would occur with damage to particular brain areas.



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