Neurosciences

Code:

P103

Acronym:

NEUR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Behavior Biology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	190	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	1	-	4	36	108

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. To describe the history of the neurosciences and the brain modern conception concerning the relation brain-mind-behavior.
2. To identify the several disciplines of the neurosciences, their specificity, their inter-dependencies and their contribution for the understanding of the behavior.
3. To know and to explain synapses and neuronal neurophysiology.
4. To understand and explaining both general CNS development, and its specific structures, from phylogenesis and ontogenesis to adult individual.
5. To know CNS development principles as well as its anatomical and functional organization, centered in the role of the main brain structures and regions that are engaged in behavioral regulation.

Program

1. Epistemological introduction to the neuroscience.
2. CNS phylogenesis and ontogenesis.
3. Elementary notions of neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, and molecular neurobiology: from infra-cellular level to inter-cellular level.
4. Functional neuroanatomy: from spinal medulla level to telencephalon level.

Mandatory literature

Gazzaniga Michael S. ed. lit.; The cognitive neurosciences. ISBN: 0-262-07157-6
Rodrigues Custódio; Motivação. ISBN: 972-646-104-9
Crossman A. R.; Neuroanatomy. ISBN: ISBN 0-443-04479-1
Bowsher David; Introduction to the anatomy & physiology of the nervous system. ISBN: 0-632-00037-6
Swanson Larry W.; Brain architecture. ISBN: 0-19-510505-2

Complementary Bibliography

Churchland Patricia Smith; Neurophilosophy. ISBN: ISBN 0-262-53085-6
Teixeira João Eduardo Marques Teixeira; Toxicodependência e auto-organização. ISBN: 972-9295-25-5
Wade Nicholas J. 340; The^emergence of neuroscience in the nineteenth century. ISBN: 0-415-22839-5
Iaccino James F.; Left brain-right brain differences. ISBN: ISBN 0-8058-1340-3
Thompson Richard F.; The^brain. ISBN: 0-7167-2485-5
Nicholls John G.; From neuron to brain. ISBN: ISBN 0-87893-580-0
Bradshaw John L.; Human evolution. ISBN: 0-86377-504-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Explanatory lectures in great group

Software

Nenhum

keywords

Health sciences > Neuroscience > Neurobiology

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

NA

Calculation formula of final grade

NA

Examinations or Special Assignments

NA

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

NA

Classification improvement

A new evaluation (present or next year)