NEUROSCIENCE N623
Systems Neuroscience
Fall 2023

Time: Mon, Wed, Fri at 3:30-4:30PM, Room: NRB 4702

Text: Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell, Siegelbaum and Huspeth, 5th or 6th Edition. Course Directors: Daniel Ts'o, x4-5531, tsod@upstate.edu Frank Middleton, x4-7721, middletf@upstate.edu

* Scheduling exception, reconfirm time and place
# Additional introductory readings assigned, see relevant reading list

Week		Chapters	Topic
1	Sep 4		Labor Day
	Sep 6	1,15-21 (5th edition)	Neural Basis of Cognition (Tso)
	Sep 8* (2pm)	26	Vision, retina (Solessio)
2	Sep 11	#	Introduction to Neocortex (Tso)
	Sep 13		Retina papers (Solessio)
	Sep 15		Retina papers (Solessio)
3	Sep 18	25, 27 #	Central visual pathways (Tso)
	Sep 20		Central vision papers (Tso)
	Sep 22		Central vision papers (Tso)
4	Sep 25	28 #	Perception of motion, depth, color and form (Tso)
	Sep 27		Visual Submodalities papers (Tso)
	Sep 29		Visual Submodalities papers (Tso) Think about mid-course paper topic
5	Oct 2	20, 29 #	Attention (Tso)
	Oct 4		Attention Papers (Tso)
	Oct 6	39, 40	Oculomotor and Vestibular system (Middleton)
6	Oct 9		Columbus Day
	Oct 11		Oculomotor and Vestibular Papers (Middleton)
	Oct 13		Oculomotor and Vestibular Papers (Middleton)
7	Oct 16	30, 31	Hearing, transduction to 8th nerve encoding (Solessio)
	Oct 18		Early audition papers (Solessio)
	Oct 20	31 #	Central audition and Auditory Psychophysics Demos (Tso)
8	Oct 23		Central audition papers (Tso) Choose mid-course paper topic
	Oct 25		Central audition and language papers (Tso)
	Oct 27	32	Chemical senses (Middleton) Mid-semester exam distributed
9	Oct 30*		Chemical senses papers (Middleton)
	Oct 31*		Mid-semester exam due at 3:30pm
	Nov 1		Chemical senses papers (Middleton)
	Nov 3	21-23	Somatosensory system (Matthews)
10	Nov 6		Somatosensory papers, transduction and encoding (Matthews)
	Nov 8		Somatosensory papers, central processing (Matthews)
	Nov 10	33, 34, 36, 37	Sensory/Motor integration, Motor Unit, Reflexes, Locomotion (Middleton)
11	Nov 13		Motor System papers (Middleton)
	Nov 15		Motor System papers (Middleton)
	Nov 17	38	Central Control of Movement and Motor Papers I (Middleton)
12	Nov 20		Central Motor Papers II (Middleton)
	Nov 21		Mid-course paper due at 3:30pm
	Nov 22		Brief (10-15min) presentations of mid-course papers
	Nov 24		Thanksgiving Holiday (Nov 23rd)
13	Nov 27	41, 42 #	Central Motor Papers III (Cerebellum) (Middleton)
	Nov 29	43 #	Central Motor Papers IV (BasalGanglia) (Middleton)
	Dec 1	46,48 #	Limbic System Overview (Weickert)
14	Dec 4		Limbic System (Weickert)
	Dec 6	65, 66, 67	Learning, memory: Cellular mechanisms (Middleton)
	Dec 8		Learning, memory: Cellular mechanisms (Middleton)
15	Dec 11		Central learning and memory papers (Middleton)
	Dec 13		Central learning and memory papers (Middleton)
	Dec 15	56 #	Sensory experience, plasticity and reorganization papers (Tso) Final exam distributed
16	Dec 18		Sensory experience, plasticity and reorganization papers (Tso)
	Dec 20		Decision making, Neuro-economics, Free will papers (Tso)
	Dec 22		Final exam due by 3:30pm in the Neuroscience Office.

 

Nobel Laureates in the Neurosciences, lectures and bio's.

A timeline of the History of Neuroscience.

Mid-course paper assignment (due November 25 at 3:30pm in the Neuroscience Office).

The mid-semester exam will be a take-home exam, distributed on Friday, October 27, due no later than Tuesday, October 31, 3:30pm in the Neuroscience Office.

The final exam will be a take-home exam, distributed on Friday, December 15, due no later than Friday, December 22, 3:30pm in the Neuroscience Office.

Tips for effective paper presentations

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