Bi150
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This is Bi 150, Introduction to Neuroscience, taught by Prof. Henry Lester, Prof. Ralph Adolphs, and Prof. Mary Kennedy.
Notes and assignments for this course can be found here: [1].
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Lectures
Camera operator: Ben Rosenfeld
- Lecture 1 - 9/30/2009
- The Ionic Basis of Neuroscience (Lester)
- Lecture 2 - 10/2/2009
- Voltage Gated Channels. Part I (Lester)
- Lecture 3 - 10/5/2009
- Voltage-dependent channels and action potentials. Part II (Lester)
- Lecture 4 - 10/7/2009
- Synapses, Part 1: Presynaptic Transmitter release (Lester)
- Lecture 5 - 10/9/2009
- Synapses, Part II: The acetylcholine receptor and organization of the neuromuscular junction (Lester)
- Lecture 6 - 10/12/2009
- Inhibition; electrical integration of signals; cable properties of dendrites and and axons (Lester)
- Please note that the lecture slides are mis-labeled as lecture 7
- Inhibition; electrical integration of signals; cable properties of dendrites and and axons (Lester)
- Lecture 7 - 10/14/2009
- Dendritic excitability, Inward rectifiers, Glia (Lester)
- Lecture 8 - 10/16/2009
- AMPA receptors and GABA receptors: organization of CNS synapses (Kennedy)
- Lecture 9 - 10/19/2009
- Synaptic Plasticity; LTP and LTD (Kennedy)
- Lecture 10 - 10/21/2009
- NMDA Receptors; the biochemistry of synaptic plasticity (Kennedy)
- Lecture 11 - 10/23/2009
- The G protein pathway in neuroscience (Lester)
- Lecture 12 - 10/26/2009
- Development of the Nervous system #1 (Lester)
- Lecture 13 - 10/28/2009
- Development of the Nervous system #2 (Lester)
- Lecture 14 - 10/30/2009
- Anatomy of the Central Nervous System (Adolphs)
- Lecture 15 - 11/02/2009
- Vision; the retina and detection of light (Lester)
- Lecture 16 - 11/04/2009
- The Visual System from retina to visual cortex (Adolphs)
- Lecture 17 - 11/06/2009
- Visual System; cortical processing and object recognition (Adolphs)
- Lecture 18 - 11/09/2009
- The Auditory System (Adolphs)
- Lecture 19 - 11/11/2009
- The Somatosensory System (Adolphs)
- Lecture 20 - 11/13/2009
- Olfaction (Adolphs)
