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Module Guide from winter term 2023/24

Modul EW4240-KP06

Neurobiology (NeuroB)

Duration:


1 Semester
Turnus of offer:


every summer semester
Credit points:


6
Course of studies, specific field and terms:
  • Master Nutritional Medicine 2019 (optional subject), neuroscience, 2nd semester
  • Master Nutritional Medicine 2023 (optional subject), neuroscience, 2nd semester
Classes and lectures:
  • EW4240-V Neurobiology (lecture, 2 SWS)
  • EW4240-S Neurobiology (seminar, 2 SWS)
Workload:
  • 60 Hours in-classroom work
  • 120 Hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
  • CNS anatomy
  • CNS development
  • Neurotransmission
  • Neurotransmitters and their receptors
  • Intracellular signal transduction in neurons
  • Peripheral nervous system
  • Plasticity and memory formation
  • Homeostatic functions of the brain
  • Motivation and decision making
  • Circadian rhythms and sleep
  • Gut-brain axis
  • The endocrine brain
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
  • The students can explain the basics of neurobiological function.
  • The students can explain the structure and development of the CNS.
  • They can explain neuronal plasticity and circuit regulation.
  • They know examples for CNS-periphery crosstalk in metabolic regulation and can explain them.
Grading through:
  • written exam
Responsible for this module:
Teachers:
  • Dr. rer. nat. Violetta Pilorz
  • Dr. rer. nat. Isabel Heyde
  • Dr. rer. nat. Iwona Oleijniczak
  • Leonardo de Assis, PhD
  • Jazmin Osorio, PhD
  • Marianne Lehmann, PhD
Literature:
  • A. Robert Martin, David A. Brown, Mathew E. Diamond; Antonino Cattaneo, Francisco F. De-Miguel, and Foreword by John Nicholls: From Neuron to Brain (Sixth Edition) - December 2020; ISBN: 9781605354392
  • Editors - Scott Brady, George Siegel, R. Wayne Albers, Donald Price: Basic Neurochemistry, Principles of Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Neurobiology (8th Edition) - November 2011; ISBN: 9780123749475
Language:
  • offered only in English
Notes:

Prerequisites for the module:
- nothing

Prerequisites for admission to the written examination:
- succesful participation in the seminar

Module exam:
- EW4240-L1: Neurobiology, written exam, 90 min, 100 % module grade

Letzte Änderung:
15.3.2023