GRADUATE NEUROANATOMY

Neurobiology & Anatomy 7710 / Neuroscience  6060

Autumn 2007

 

Dates:                          Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning August 23

Time:                           1-2:30 p.m.

Place:                           Rm. 408/410 MREB (Neurobiology & Anatomy Conference Rm.)

Instructors:                  Tom Parks, Scott Rogers and Monica Vetter

Format:                        Lectures and laboratory sessions

Testing:                       Three exams and one paper

Textbook:                    D.E. Haines, Fundamental Neuroscience 3rd Ed., 2006

Pre-requisites:             None; open to all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

e-mail contact:             Tom.Parks@neuro.utah.edu

 

Course Schedule

August                        23        Introduction: basic plan, embryology, methods for studying (TP)     

            28        Introduction: ventricles, meninges and vascular supply (TP)

                       30         Laboratory 1: cranial nerves and blood vessels (TP)

September        4         Orientation to the brainstem  I (TP)

6        Laboratory 2: surface and midsagittal gross anatomy (TP)

11        Orientation to the brainstem and reticular formation  II (TP)

13        Orientation to the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord (TP)

18        Orientation to the forebrain (MV)

20        Examination 1

25        Motor systems: upper and lower motor neurons (TP)

27        Motor systems: cerebellum (TP)

October             2        Motor systems: basal ganglia (TP)

              4        Hypothalamus (TP)

  9        Semester break

11        Semester break

16        Hippocampus (SR)

18        Amygdala and olfactory system (SR)

23        Vestibular system (SR)

 

Graduate Neuroanatomy

Neurobiology & Anatomy 7710

Autumn 2007

 

Course Schedule (contŐd)

 

October           25        Auditory system (SR)

                        30        Laboratory 3: limbic system

November         1        Examination 2

                          6        Laboratory 4: visual system and cortical anatomy (TP)

                          8        Somatic sensation: spinothalamic system (MV)

13        Somatic sensation: dorsal column/medial lemniscus (MV)

15        Somatic sensation: trigeminal system (MV)

                        20        Visual system (MV)

                        22        Thanksgiving Holiday; no class

                        27        Chemosensation (MV); term paper due

29        Comparative neuroanatomy I (SR)

December          4        Comparative neuroanatomy II (SR)

                          6        Neurobiology of disease (SR)

                        11        Emerging topics in neuroanatomy

                        13        Examination 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Course Information

 

Reading.  Aside from D.E. HainesŐs Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, 3rd Ed. (Churchill Livingstone, 2006, ISBN-13# 978-0443067511), which is required, we can recommend John H. Martin's Neuroanatomy: Text and Atlas, 3rd Edition (Appleton & Lange, 2003, 978-0071212373) and John NolteŐs The Human Brain, 3rd Ed, Mosby, 2002, 978-0323013208), both of which have good diagrams in styles very different from that in Haines.  A number of other neuroanatomy books are on closed reserve at Eccles Library for the concurrent Medical Neuroanatomy course.  Although a brain atlas is not required, should you wish to consult one we recommend The Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams, 3rd Ed. by John Nolte and Jay B. Angevine (Mosby, 2007) and Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structure, Sections, and Systems, 7th Ed. by D.E. Haines (Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2007).  We have found that students prefer to purchase a textbook online so we do not have the university bookstore stock textbooks for this class.  However, the Health Sciences Bookstore usually has some copies available for sale.  Additional readings from the literature will be assigned for some lectures.

 

Laboratories.  There will be four laboratory sessions, held in the teaching lab on the east side of the 4th floor of the Health Sciences Education Building, during which the instructors will help you dissect preserved human brains and identify structures of interest. Gloves and dissecting tools will be provided at each lab; lab-coats are not required but you may wish to bring one.

 

Testing and Grading.  There will be one 2-page paper due November 27 and three written examinations covering material presented in the lectures, labs and readings.  The last two exams are not comprehensive except insofar as topographic anatomy is required to answer the questions.  An overall average of 70% correct or 1.5 standard deviations below the class mean score (whichever is lower) is required to pass the course.

 

Course Web-Site. There is a site for the course on the universityŐs Web-CT site, accessible from the main university web-page with your student ID or a special code given to auditors who request it from the instructor.   The course syllabus, reading assignments, lecture notes, lecture PowerPoints, assigned readings, lab manual, test results and grades will be posted on this website.