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

Last updated on January 27, 2007

Week 28
Monday, 2/19/07		Wednesday, 2/21/07
8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Motor systems I: Lower motor neuron (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 15 Handout Presentation	8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Basal ganglia (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 17 Blumenfeld: Ch. 16 Handout Presentation
9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Motor systems II: Upper motor neuron, descending controls (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 16 Handout Presentation	9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Cerebellum (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 18 Blumenfeld: Ch. 15 Handout Presentation

Week 29
Monday, 2/26/07		Wednesday, 2/28/067
1:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: The neurological exam (DiCicco-Bloom) Blumenfeld: Ch. 3 Handout Presentation	9:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Clinical Presentation: Movement disorders (DiCicco-Bloom) WEAR YOUR WHITE COAT Students will not be admitted to the lecture hall after the presentation begins. Handout
3:00 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: EEG (Casaccia) Purves: Ch. 27 Box C Handout Presentation	10:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Review and discussion of motor problems (Staff) Clinical Case Studies

Week 30
Monday, 3/5/07		Wednesday, 3/7/07		Thursday, 3/8/07		Friday, 3/9/07
1:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Somatosensory System (Alder) Purves: Ch. 8 Blumenfeld: Ch. 7 Handout Presentation	8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Auditory system (Crockett) Purves: Ch. 12 Blumenfeld: pp. 485-489 Handout Presentation	1:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Visual system I: retina, central pathways, the pupillary reflex (Casaccia) Purves: Ch. 10, 11 Blumenfeld: Ch. 11, pp. 427-434 Handout Presentation	1:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Chemical senses (Matise) Purves: Ch. 14 Handout Presentation
2:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Pain (Alder) Purves: Ch. 9 Handout	9:30 am Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Vestibular system (Crockett) Purves: Ch. 13 Blumenfeld: pp. 489-494 Handout Presentation	2:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Visual system II: Cortical processing (Nowakowski) Purves: Ch. 11 Blumenfeld: pp. 435-438 Handout Presentation

Week 31

Monday, 3/12/07

Wednesday, 3/14/07

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall

Lecture: Eye movements, nystagmus and coma (Casaccia)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Rooms C1-C12, N1-4

Case Conference II: Eye movements, basal ganglia, cerebellum (Staff)

Blumenfeld: Ch. 13, 15, 16.
Review the material in these chapters that was covered in lectures. (This helps prepare you for the second block exam 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 covered in the course so far (Blocks I and II).
The cases in the Clinical Conference will come from these chapters.

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

Week 32
Monday, 3/19/07		Wednesday, 3/21/07
8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Stroke and tumors (Wu) Purves: Box A p. 767 Blumenfeld: Ch. 10, pp. 376-385 Handout Presentation	8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Review of brainstem syndromes and problems (DiCicco-Bloom) Blumenfeld: Ch. 14, pp. 607-619 Handout Presentation
9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Review of vasculature (Hayes) Purves: Appendix B Blumenfeld: Ch. 366-377 Handout Presentation	9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Patient presentation: brainstem (DiCicco-Bloom) WEAR YOUR WHITE COAT Students will not be admitted to the lecture hall after the patient arrives.

Week 33

BLOCK II EXAMS -- No Neuroscience class; Neuroscience Exam is in Week 34

Week 34

Monday, 4/2/07

Wednesday, 4/4/07

9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Main Lecture Hall

EXAMINATION II: 32% of final grade

CAUTION! If you look at previous exams, remember the course content, text books, and schedule have been changed!

SEE BLOCK III SCHEDULE