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Lecture 1 - ORGANISATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
Sponges jellyfish,
Invertebrates cord,
Vertebrates cord
24
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Lecture 2 – CELLULAR ORGANISATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Golgi and the reticular theory,
Cajal and the neuron doctrine,
The development of the electron m...
27
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Lecture 3 – MEMBRANES, IONS, WATER AND PROTEINS
Polarity,
Water,
Hydrogen bonds
18
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Lecture 4 – ELECTROCHEMICAL GRADIENTS
Movement down concentration gradi...,
Situation more complex when there...,
A gap in the membrane
14
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Lecture 5 – IONIC BASIS OF MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
Concentration gradients,
Ion gradients in cells,
What direction do ions move
14
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Lecture 6 – THE ACTION POTENTIAL
Excitable cells,
The action potential,
The anatomy of an action potential
11
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Lecture 7 – SALTATORY CONDUCTION
Transmission can be broken down i...,
Why does dendritic current attenuate,
Cable theory
12
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Lecture 8 – SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION
Information processing in the ner...,
The problem,
Some terminology
20
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Lecture 9 – NEUROTRANSMITTERS
Neurotransmitters,
Receptors,
Agonists and antagonists
20
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Lecture 10: Information Processing in the Nervous System
How does a post synaptic cell dec...,
Synaptic integration,
The events of a chemical synapse
16
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Lecture 11 – ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
What is electrophysiology,
Why are electrophysiological reco...,
Extracellular
21
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Lecture 12 – Optogenetics and Dyes
Non invasive methods to record co...,
Ions move when ion channels open,
Calcium sensitive dyes are chelators
13
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Lecture 13 – Sensory Systems 1: Vision and the Eye
Properties of light,
The structure of the vertebrate eye,
Imperfections of the vertebrate eye
20
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Lecture 14 – Sensory Systems 2 SMELL, TASTE, HEARING AND TOUCH
Senses,
Human olfactory receptors,
Combinatorial coding
16
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Lecture 15 – Motor Pathways I: Muscles (the other excitable cells)
Classification of muscle,
Skeletal muscle structure,
Skeletal muscle fibre
17
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Lecture 16 – Motor Pathways II
Action potential vs contraction,
Twitch and tetanus,
Henneman s size principle
20
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Lecture 17 - Learning and Memory 1
Is the brain wired,
Basic principles of learning and ...,
Learning and memory
20
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Lecture 18 - Learning and Memory 2
Model systems for studying the ne...,
Learning in invertebrates,
Aplysia californica the sea hare
16
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Lecture 19 – Strokes
Overview,
Preclinical clinical stroke studies,
Recent failures high risk disease...
20
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Lecture 20 – Brain Killers
Brain killers,
Brain,
An efficient transport system
17
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Lecture 21 – Excitable cells in plants and microbes
Characteristics of excitable cells,
Used for,
Evolutionary origin of ion channels
19
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