Neuroscience '07 at RWJMS

Course Director, Nancy L. Hayes, Ph.D. (e-mail: neuro@umdnj.edu)
Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

UMDNJ-RWJMS NEUROSCIENCE COURSE SCHEDULE -- Part I

Schedule through the first exam, i.e, for the first 7 weeks of the course. Handouts and Presentations are available on WebCT

Last updated on January 26, 2007 .

Week 21 Neuroscience moment of the week: The Music of the Hemispheres (New York Times, Arts, Sunday, December 31)
Tuesday, 1/2/07 Thursday, 1/4/07
9:30 a.m.
West and East Lecture Halls		 Lecture: Overview of CNS Organization; the Neuron (Hayes)
  • Purves:Ch.1; Ch.22 Box C
  • Handout
  • Presentation

8:30-9:30 a.m.
West and East Lecture Halls

Lecture: Imaging the CNS (Hayes)

  • Purves: Ch. 1 Box A
  • Blumenfeld: Ch 4
  • Handout
  • Presentation

 
10:30 a.m.- 12:30
Rooms S212/S220

Laboratory I: Surface Anatomy (Staff)

  • WGH: pp. 20-51 or Haines: Chapter 2
  • Purves: Appendix B

 Week 22 Neuroscience moment of the week: This is your brain on shopping. Neuron (Jan. 4, 2007) 53: 147-156
Monday, 1/8/07 Tuesday, 1/9/07
10:30 a.m. - 12:30
Rooms S212/220

Laboratory II: Vasculature and Surface Anatomy (Staff)

  • Purves: Appendix B
 8:30a.m.
Main Lecture Hall 		Lecture: Neurotransmission (Wu)
  • Purves: Ch. 5 and 6 and pp. 583-592, 597-599
  • Handout
  • Presentation
9:30a.m.
Main Lecture Hall 		Lecture: CNS response to injury; degeneration and the potential for repair (Crockett)
  • Purves: pp. 602-607 including Box E
  • Blumenfeld: Case 5.3 pp. 1174-176; 178-179; Case 7.3 pp. 288, 290-291
  • Handout
  • Presentation


 Week 23 Neuroscience moment of the week: Bilingualism protects against dementia. Neuropsychologia (February, 2007) 45 (2): 459-464
Tuesday, 1/16/07 Thursday, 1/18/07
10:30a.m.
Main Lecture Hall		 Lecture: Spinal cord: segmental organization and reflexes, introduction to the long pathways (Matise)
  • Purves: pp. 11-14, Ch. 15 p. 387 Fig. 15.9, 15.12 and 15.13
  • Blumenfeld: Ch. 2 pp. 22-24 and Ch. 6 pp. 216-22, pp. 282-285, and pp. 303-308
  • Handout
  • Presentation
 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Rooms S212/220		 Laboratory III: Brainstem and cerebellum (Staff)
  • WGH: pp. 40-47 (all pictures!) or Haines: p. 22, 24, 28-29, 32, 34, 36-38, and 51
11:30a.m.
Main Lecture Hall

Patient Presentation: Spinal cord injury (DiCicco-Bloom)

  • Handout

WEAR YOUR WHITE COAT
Students will not be admitted to the lecture hall after the presentation begins


 Week 24 Neuroscience moment of the week: The stuff of daydreams. Science 315:393-395
Monday, 1/22/07 Thursday, 1/25/07
10:30 a.m. - 12:30
Main Lecture Hall		 Lecture: Brainstem and the cranial nerve nuclei (Hayes)
  • Blumenfeld: Ch. 2 pp. 38-40; Ch. 12 (CNS only -- the PNS information is a review of Gross Anatomy); Ch. 14 pp. 575-598 and 607-619
  • Purves: Appendix A, Ch. 16 Boxes A and B
  • Handout
  • Presentation
 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Rooms S212/S220

Laboratory IV: More Brain Stem and Telencephalon (Staff)

WGH: pp. 54-133 (all pictures) or Haines: Chapters 2 and 3


 Week 25 ARTISS POWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE Wednesday, January 31, 8 AM in the CAB: Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease Treatment
Neuroscience moment of the week: The critical role of the insula in nicotine addiction. Naqvi et al., (2007) Science 315:532-534
Monday, 1/29/07 Thursday, 2/1/07
10:30 a.m.
Main Lecture Hall		 Lecture: Thalamus and cortex, development of the encephalons (Nowakowski)
  • Purves: From Chapter 21: pp. 510-512 (includes figure 21.5)
    From Appendix B: pp. 770-772 (includes figure B7)
  • Blumenfeld: From Chapter 2: pp. 24-32 (includes figures 2-10 through 2-15 and Tables 2-3 and 2-4); pp. 35-37 (includes figure 2-20
    From Chapter 7: pp. 271-276 (includes figures 7.6 through 7.8 and Table 7.3); pp. 278 (figure 7.9A and related text)
  • Handout
  • Presentation

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Rooms S212/220

Laboratory V. Prosencephalon (Staff)
  • WGH: pp. 54-133 (all pictures) or Haines: Chapters 2 and 3
11:30 a.m Main Lecture Hall Lecture: Long pathway review (Hayes)
  • Blumenfeld: pp. 223-227; 264-270
  • Handout
  • Presentation

 Week 26
Monday, 2/5/07 Wednesday, 2/7/07
10:30 a.m.- 12:30
Rooms S212/S220

Laboratory VI. Prosencephalon: The Brain in Cross Sections and General Review

WGH: pp. 54-133 (all pictures) or Haines: Chapters Chapters 4 and 5

 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Rooms C1-C12

Case Conference I: Brain topography, spinal cord, and brainstem (Staff)

  • Blumenfeld: Ch. 5, 7, 12 and 14.

  • Review the material in these chapters that was covered in lectures. (This prepares you for the exam next week as well as the Conference.)
  • Begin studying the clinical cases at the end of each chapter, again -- focusing on those structure/function relationships which we have already covered.
  • The cases in the Clinical Conference will come from these chapters.

Small groups: ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED (1% of total grade)


 Week 27
Wednesday, 2/14/07 ************NOTE CHANGE OF DATE!*******************
12:30- 4:30p.m.
Main Lecture Hall (written) and Rooms S212/220 (practical)

Examination #1
(32% of total grade)
Two parts: written (16%) and practical (16%).

CAUTION! If you look at previous written exams, remember: the course content, schedule, text books, etc. have changed!

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