Functional neuroanatomy

December 7-18, 2020

All lectures will be organized online in Zoom.

Target group: Doctoral and master's students who have passed basic (MSc level) courses in neuroscience and physiology.

The course is organized by Dr. Claudio Rivera and Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind and the Master's Programme in Neuroscience, University of Helsinki.

Program

TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Monday 07.12
15:00-15:15 Claudio Rivera (Introduction to the course)
15:15-16:45 Rustem Kazipov (sensory cortex)
Tuesday 08.12
15:00-16:30 Nazim Kourdougli (The somatosensory cortex and austism)
Monday 14.12
9:30 – 10:15 Johan Westö (retina)
10:30-12:00 Satu Palva (visual system)
13:00-16:00 Claudio Rivera (introduction to in vivo functional recording in rodents + demonstration 1)
Tuesday 15.12
9:30-11:00 Heikki Tanila (Memory systems)
11:30-12:30 Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini (Temporal lobe epilepsy)
Thursday 17.12
9:30-10:30 Pantelis Liomis (Motor cortex)
11:00-12:00 Anastasia Shulga (Spinal cord)
Friday 18.12
9:30-11:00 Claudio Rivera (Functional development of GABAergic transmission and related pathologies)
12:00-14: 45 Marja-Leena Linne (Introduction to computational neuroscience)
14:45-:15:00 Jugoslava Acimovic (Modeling of anatomy, connectivity and morphology)

Wednesday 27.1.2021
9:00-11:00 Exam, Biomedicum

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Credits for students

University of Helsinki students, please register in WebOodi to course NEUBM-533.

The course will provide

1 credit for participation to the lectures (lecture diaries are required for the credit point) or
3 credits for lecture diaries and a passed exam covering lectures and selected review articles.

The exam will be organized on January 27 in Biomedicum (and a re-take later).

More information in the course Moodle page (link provided to enrolled students later).

Students of other universities than UH, check this box if you wish to have a certificate of participation sent to your e-mail address after the course.

Students of other universities than UH, check this box if you wish to take the exam. Based on the need, we may arrange an exam in other Finnish universities simultaneously as in Helsinki.

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More information from katri.wegelius@helsinki.fi.