NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY
cod. 20113

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisiologia (BIO/09)
Field
Scienze biologiche e psicologiche
Type of training activity
Basic
45 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: NEUROSCIENCE

Learning objectives

<br />To know the main mechanisms od the sensory and motor functions of the central nervous system and of sensorimotor transformation processings.<br />To know the mechanisms at the basis of the muscle contraction and of the muscle performance

Prerequisites

<br />To have achieved the objectives of the courses of the I semester

Course unit content

<br />Skeletal muscle<br />Methods for studying the functions of the central nervous system<br />Organization of the spinal cord; spinal reflexes <br />Organization of the brainstem; vestibular system; posture<br />Sensory systems: somatosensory system, visual system <br />Associative cortex, higher order cognitive functions<br /> Cerebellum, basal ganglia, motor cortex<br />Sleep

Full programme

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Bibliography

Neuroscienze, edited by Dale Purves, Casa Editrice Zanichelli, II edizione

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