Neuroanatomy Course 2008

January 2008

Date

Instructor

Topic / Activity / Room

Readings

Wednesday

January 23

Brown

TOPIC:  Overview and cortical regions; limbic regions

ACTIVITY:  Preparation for rodent and sheep brain labs.

Cortical Intro Powerpoint File

Human brain atlas

Friday

January 25

Brown

Click here for digital images from lab.

Mouse Brain Atlas

Monday

January 28

Brown

TOPIC:  Spinal cord/somatosensory system

ACTIVITY:  Powerpoint lecture at Library Computer Room- Forchheimer 119N

Note location of this class!!

Porro

Lipton

Keysers

Wednesday

January 30

Walkley

TOPIC: Brainstem

ACTIVITY: Cranial nerve connections

Powerpoint File of lecture

Brainstem Atlas

February 2008

Date

Instructor

Topic / Activity / Room

Readings

Friday

February 1

Brown

LAB:  Sheep brain: focus on brainstem, cerebellum. Take photos; notebook drawings and text. Bring a lab coat/Belfer 411A.

Click here for digital images from lab.

Sheep Brain Basic

Sheep Brain Atlas

Sheep Brain Dissection - good reference to look at weekly

Monday

February 4

Brown

TOPIC:  Descending Systems 

ACTIVITY: MRI Study Link

Kennedy 919

Powerpoint File of lecture

Wednesday

February 6

Brown

TOPIC:  Basal Ganglia: circuits, cortical-subcortical circuits and interaction

ACTIVITY:   prepare for human brain lab

Download Powerpoint file of lecture by option+clicking here.

Friday

February 8

Brown

LAB:  Human: visual/auditory cortex

ACTIVITY:  Take photos; notebook drawings and text. Bring a lab coat/Belfer 411A. 

Click here for digital images from lab.

Monday

February 11

Kohn

TOPIC: Visual System

ACTIVITY: 

 

PDF file of lecture

http://brainmap.wustl.edu/vanessen.html

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/

http://vision.ucsf.edu/hortonlab/

Wednesday

February 13

Peña

TOPIC:  Auditory System

Friday

February 15

Brown

LAB:  Human brain dissection: Focus on hippocampus, thalamus and basal ganglia

Bring a lab coat /Belfer 411 A
 

Click here for digital images from lab.

Monday

February 18

no class

President's Day Holiday- no class

Wednesday

February 20

Brown

Friday

February 22

Brown

LAB: Descending Systems; Basal Ganglia

Belfer 411 A
 

Click here for digital images from lab.

Monday

February 25

Etgen

TOPIC:  Hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system

ACTIVITY:  Find the cannula in the hypothalamus. What regions would a drug injection affect? Find the paraventricular nucleus.

(click here for pdf of article)

Wednesday

February 27

Walkley

TOPIC:  Cerebellum

Friday

February 29

Schaumburg

TOPIC:  Human Neuroanatomy Review and Neuropathology

LAB:  Bring a lab coat/ Belfer 411 A

The Brain Museum

BrainInfo

March 2008

Date

Instructor

Topic / Activity / Room

Readings

Monday

March 3

Brown

Review

Click here for Review/Powerpoint File

Wednesday

March 5

Brown

Examination and course evaluation

Final lab notebooks due.