Functional Human Neuroanatomy.
200.370,
Spring Term 2008
Thursdays
1:30- 4:00pm, Hodson 213
Virtual
Lab and Study Sessions, Mondays and Thursdays 3:30-4:30, and TBA
http://www.psy.jhu.edu/~courtney/200.370/
Instructor:
Dr.
Susan Courtney
516-8894,
courtney@jhu.edu,
office
hours: Ames 227, Mon 10:30-11:30am and 3:30-4:30pm
and by appointment
Graduate
TA: Megan Walsh
Office hours:
3:30-4:30pm Mondays, Krieger 309
Phone: 410-516-4023
Email: meggersw@gmail.com
Undergrad
Course Assistant: Stephanie Kong
Office hours: Tues.
and Wed. 4:30-5:30pm, Krieger 309
Email: sfkong@jhu.edu
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January
31:
Definitions,
concepts, and overview of methods
Chapter 1, Purves
Labs
1 and 2: Overview of the Organization of the Brain
Chapter 1 Nolte & Angevine
February
7:
The
organization of the nervous system: All roads lead to motor behavior
Chapters 1, 16-17, 21 in Purves
Labs
5 and 6: Motor Cortex and Spinal Cord
Pages 130-135 Nolte & Angevine
February
14:
Cerebellum
and Basal Ganglia
Chapters 18-19 in
Purves
Labs
7 and 8: Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
Pages 136-143 Nolte & Angevine
February
21:
The
somatic sensory system
Chapters 9-10 in Purves
Labs
3 and 4: Somatosensory System
Pages 108-111, 114-115 Nolte & Angevine
February
28:
The Sensorimotor
System in Learning and Attention
(E.g. sequence
learning, procedural learning, eye movements)
Chapter 20, pgs 668-671, 791-794, 807-809 in Purves
Review
March
6:
1st EXAM
The
retina to V1
Chapters 11-12 in Purves
Lab
10: Visual System 1
March
13:
Early
visual processing, perception, recognition, and attention
Chapter
12, pgs. 679-680 in Purves
Lab
11: Visual System 2
Pages 124-125 Nolte & Angevine
March
27:
Auditory
system
Chapters 13-14 in Purves
Labs
9 and 12: Auditory and vestibular systems (Review Cerebellum)
Pages 120-123 Nolte & Angevine
Chapter
15 in Purves
Review
Lab
13: Olfactory system and amygdala
Pages 150-153 Nolte & Angevine
HOMEWORK
4 DUE, MONDAY APRIL 7, 10:00PM
April
10:
2nd EXAM
Overview
of Higher Cognitive Neural Systems
Chapter
26 in Purves
Courtney 2004
Gallagher and Frith (2003) Trends in Cog. Sci. 7:77-83
Wakana et al. (2004) Radiology 230:77-87
ÒMy LobotomyÓ
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080
April
17:
Emotion,
Motivation, and Long-term Memory
Chapters 29, 31, pgs. 528-530 in Purves
Lab
14: Language, Memory, and Attention
Pages 154-157 Nolte & Angevine
April
24:
Language
Chapters 27 in Purves
Short-Term
Memory
Chapter
26 in Purves
May
1:
Attention
and Executive Functions
Chapter 26 in Purves
Review
(No Òsenior optionÓ)
BOOKS, SOFTWARE, ASSIGNMENTS, GRADING
1) Neuroscience, Purves et al.,
4th edition, companion website, and included download of Sylvius
4.
2) Nolte and Angevine "The
Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams", 2nd Edition, Published by Mosby
3) Other readings as assigned to be downloaded from class website
4) Neurosyllabus (brain atlas
computer program)
Local program on computers in Krieger Computer Lab
Online version at
By John Sundsten and Kathleen Mulligan, local, more user friendly
online version developed by James Gao.
Original website at http://vertex.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
Lab exercises are done with this program. Print out lab assignments from course
web page. On
pictures within lab assignments, circle all structures in bold described
in the text of the assignments and hand in these pages with the circled
structures during the next class lecture period following each assigned lab. You may wish to make a second copy so you can keep it to
study from.
5) Interactive
Brain Map
Developed
by the JHU CER, Prof. Courtney, and JHU Neuroanatomy students
https://biomap.cer.jhu.edu/interactiveMap/
Homework assignments done with
this software online.
Extra credit for documented errors found in the neuroanatomy
content of the site
Labs are graded 10% down for each 24 hours late.
Online homework assignments are automatically inaccessible after the due date.