NEUR306

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Prerequisite: Earning C- or higher in NEUR200 or BSCI330. Corequisite: Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in PHYS132 or equivalent course. Credit only granted for: NEUR306 or BSCI353. Students will gain an appreciation of neuroscience as the nexus of chemistry, physics, and biology. Additionally, they will gain an understanding of how: both individual and networks of neurons function as variable electrical circuits; our nervous systems transduce signals from the outside world and sets-off molecular cascades; the behavior of a neuron can be changed and or remain the same in response to changing variables. Techniques used to study the nervous system at a cellular and molecular level will be discussed.