Online Course on Medical Neuroscience from Duke University

Duke University is offering an online course on Medical Neuroscience for first year graduates

By Malavikka

Published: Monday, May 29, 2017, 10:47 [IST]

Duke University is offering an online course on Medical Neuroscience. Medical Neuroscience explores the functional organization and neurophysiology of the human central nervous system, while providing a neurobiological framework for understanding human behavior. In this course, you will discover the organization of the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion and related faculties of cognition.

Name of the course:

Medical Neuroscience

Organiser:

Duke University

Key points covered:

Human brain
Surface Anatomy of the Human CNS
Electrical Excitability and Signal Propagation
Synaptic Transmission and Synaptic Plasticity
General Principles and Somatic Sensation
The Visual System
Audition, Vestibular Sensation and the Chemical Senses
Lower and Upper Motor Neurons
Modulation of Movement
The Brain Across the Lifespan
Complex brain functions

Course objective

The overall goal of this course is to provide the foundation for understanding the impairments of sensation, action and cognition that accompany injury, disease or dysfunction in the central nervous system. The course will build upon knowledge acquired through prior studies of cell and molecular biology, general physiology and human anatomy, as we focus primarily on the central nervous system.