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

HOMEWORK 1 DUE MONDAY FEB 18 AT 10:00PM

 

 

 

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

HOMEWORK 2 DUE, MONDAY MARCH 3, 10:00PM

 

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

HOMEWORK 3 DUE MONDAY, MARCH 24 AT 10:00PM

 

March 20:  Spring Break

 

March 27:

Auditory system

Chapters 13-14 in Purves

Labs 9 and 12: Auditory and vestibular systems (Review Cerebellum)

Pages 120-123 Nolte & Angevine

 

April 3:

Olfactory System

            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

HOMEWORK 5 DUE, MONDAY APRIL 21, 10:00PM

 

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

 

 

Cumulative FINAL EXAM. May 8-15, Date and Time TBA

(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

 

 

 

 

Grading: Exams: 25% each, Labs 15%, Homework 10%

 

Labs are graded 10% down for each 24 hours late.

Online homework assignments are automatically inaccessible after the due date.