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History of Neuroscience (psy 241) |
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Schedule for Fall Semester 2005 |
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
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1 |
8/24/05 (W) |
Introduction to course and objectives |
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1 |
8/26/05 (F) |
Origins of Neuroscience: Views from Antiquity |
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2 |
8/29/05 (M) |
From Galen to the Medieval Cell Doctrine |
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2 |
8/31/05 (W) |
16th and 17th Centuries: The Rebirth of Neuroanatomy |
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2 |
9/2/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (Greco-roman use of dream analysis) |
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3 |
9/5/05 (M) |
Labor Day–No Class |
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3 |
9/7/05 (W) |
The Scientific Revolution: Challenging the Ancients |
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3 |
9/9/05 (F) |
A Mechanistic Basis of Physiological Psychology |
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4 |
9/12/05 (M) |
Emergence of New Techniques |
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4 |
9/14/05 (W) |
Electricity and Irritability |
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4 |
9/16/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (review) |
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5 |
9/19/05 (M) |
The Vitalists |
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5 |
9/21/05 (W) |
Discovery of Animal Electricity |
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5 |
9/23/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (materialism and the age of reason) |
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6 |
9/26/05 (M) |
Electrical Stimulation of the Brain 1ST written assignment due |
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6 |
9/28/05 (W) |
Electrical Stimulation (cont) |
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6 |
9/30/05 (F) |
Phrenology and the Beginnings of Functional Localization |
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7 |
10/3/05 (M) |
Cortical Localization |
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7 |
10/5/05 (W) |
Frontal Lobe Function |
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7 |
10/7/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (student presentations) |
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8 |
10/10/05 (M) |
Speech, Language, and the Brain |
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8 |
10/12/05 (W) |
Emotion and the Brain |
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8 |
10/14/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (Owen-Huxley debates: is the human brain unique?) |
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9 |
10/17/05 (M) |
Reticular theory and the Neuron Doctrine |
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9 |
10/19/05 (W) |
Excitability and Transmission |
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9 |
10/21/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION (neuron doctrine) |
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10 |
10/24/05 (M) |
Fall Break |
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10 |
10/26/05 (W) |
Learning & Memory |
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10 |
10/28/05 (F) |
Eye, Brain, and Vision |
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11 |
10/31/05 (M) |
Color Vision (Dr. Dillenburger) |
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11 |
11/2/05 (W) |
Ear, Brain, and Audition (Dr. Sterbing) |
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11 |
11/4/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION |
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12 |
11/7/05 (M) |
Measuring Brain Activity: Waves (Dr. Woodman) 2ND written assignment due |
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12 |
11/9/05 (W) |
Olfaction |
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12 |
11/11/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION |
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13 |
11/14/05 (M) |
Measuring Brain Activity: From Cells to Channels (Dr. D’Angelo) |
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13 |
11/16/05 (W) |
(SFN) profiles of 20th century neuroscientists |
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13 |
11/18/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION |
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14 |
11/21/05 (M) |
Thanksgiving Holiday–No Class |
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14 |
11/23/05 (W) |
Thanksgiving Holiday–No Class |
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14 |
11/25/05 (F) |
Thanksgiving Holiday–No Class |
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15 |
11/28/05 (M) |
Neuroethics Debate |
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15 |
11/30/05 (W) |
Imaging the Brain (Dr. Tong) |
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15 |
12/2/05 (F) |
DISCUSSION |
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16 |
12/5/05 (M) |
Treatments and Therapies Through the Ages 3rd written assignment due |
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16 |
12/7/05 (W) |
Cerebellar function |
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16 |
12/9/05 (F) |
Historical Perspectives on the Mind-Brain Problem |