Loan collection of slides provided. 4 cr, Summer sem. 6 cr, 1st sem. This course covers the neurobiological bases of learning and memory from the cellular to the systems level. Subsequent sessions investigate the neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical mechanisms of memory at the cellular level and then move on to the study of systems that function at the level of the whole organism.
Concentration is on studies in mammals, particularly primates.
2 cr, 2nd sem. Lecture and laboratory study of tissue and organ functional histology, with emphasis on both light and electron microscopy. Loan collection of slides provided. 6 cr, 1st sem. With growing awareness of an accelerating increase in the size of the elderly population, there has been increasing interest in the neuropsychology of normal aging.