Each week includes an introductory lecture that covers the principles for the week followed by a dry lab recitation session where students discuss weekly papers that focus on the applications of lab techniques in actual experiments. Weekly labs sessions feature in-class quizzes followed by a hands-on wet lab.
| WEEK # | TOPICS | LECTURES |
RECITATIONS (DRY LAB) |
LABORATORIES (WET LAB) |
ASSIGNMENTS DUE |
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| Section 1. General Course Information | |||||
| 1 | Course expectations, methods for studying the brain, animal research and safety | Lecture 1 | No class | No class | |
| Section 2. Equipment Overview | |||||
| 2 | Anatomical terminology, concepts and equipment in neurophysiology | Lecture 2 | Recitation 1 |
Laboratory 1 In-class quiz 1 |
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| Section 3. Classical Anatomy | |||||
| 3 | Tissue sectioning, staining, and microscopy | Lecture 3 | No class |
Laboratory 2 In-class quiz 2 |
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| Section 4. Cockroach Receptive Fields | |||||
| 4 | Introduction to neurophysiology and action potentials at work | Lecture 4 | Recitation 2 |
Laboratory 3 In-class quiz 3 |
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| Section 5. Frog CAP Stimulation | |||||
| 5 | The compound potential and action potential (frog nerve) | Lecture 5 | Recitation 3 |
Laboratory 4 In-class quiz 4 |
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| Section 6. Rat Barrel Physiology | |||||
| 6 | Principles of sensory processing | Lecture 6 | Recitation 4 |
Laboratory 5 In-class quiz 5 |
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| 7 | Science writing | Lecture 7 | Recitation 5 |
Laboratory 6 In-class quiz 6 |
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| Section 7. MATLAB® Tutorials | |||||
| 8 | Plotting, spike detection, movie creation and data analysis | Lecture 8 | Recitation 6 |
Laboratory 7 In-class quiz 7 |
MATLAB® project 0 due in recitation MATLAB® project 1 due at end of lab |
| Section 8. Fly Vision Project | |||||
| 9 | Practice preparation | Lecture 9 | Recitation 7 |
Laboratory 8 In-class quiz 8 |
Research report 1 first draft due in lecture |
| 10 | Movie design | No class | No class |
Laboratory 9 In-class quiz 9 |
MATLAB® project 2 due in lab |
| 11 | Data collection | Lecture 10 | Recitation 8 | Laboratory 10 | Research report 1 final draft due in lab |
| 12 | Data analysis 1 | Lecture 11 | Recitation 9 |
Laboratory 11 In-class quiz 10 |
MATLAB® project 3 due in recitation |
| 13 | Data analysis 2 | Lecture 12 | Recitation 10 |
Laboratory 12 In-class quiz 11 |
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| Section 9. Human Physiology | |||||
| 14 | MR Imaging and electroencephalography | Lecture 13 | Recitation 11 | Laboratory 13 | Research report 2 due in lab |
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