NEU257: Mammalian Neuroanatomy

Instructors:
Maryann Martone, Ph. D.; mmartone@ucsd.edu, X20745
Harvey Karten, M. D.; hjkarten@ucsd.edu
Armin Blesch, Ph.D.; ablesch@ucsd.edu

TAs:
Louis Nguyen, hueydeweylouis@gmail.com; 
Sarah Parylak,  sarah.parylak@gmail.com

Time: Tuesday/Thursday  2:30 – 3:50 pm

Location: Biomedical Science Bldg, Medical Teaching Laboratory 1

Syllabus:  Print  (Word doc)

Number	Date	Topic	Lecturer
1	1/6	Intro to Course Laboratory- Orientation to the Brain	Martone
2	1/8	Intro to Neuroanatomy Laboratory: Gross Anatomy	Martone
3	1/13	Development	Karten
4	1/15	Cytology Lab: EM	Martone
5	1/20	Techniques in Neuroanatomy I Tracing/Histological Stains/Immuno/In situ Hybrid.	Blesch
6	1/22	Techniques in Neuroanatomy II Microscopy/Fluorescence/Confocal	Karten
7	1/27	Spinal cord and PNS (incl. autonomic NS??) Spinal cord slides and whole specimen	Blesch
8	1/29	Brainstem Brain stem cross sections	Blesch
9	2/3	Cranial Nerves and Brainstem	Karten
10	2/5	Somatosensory/auditory/vestibular  (olfactory/taste to be moved to???)	Blesch
11	2/10	MIDTERM	Martone Karten Blesch
12	2/12	Cerebellum	Martone
13	2/17	Cortex 1	Karten
14	2/19	Cortex 2	Karten
15	2/24	Basal Ganglia	Martone
16	2/26	Limbic System: Hippocampus/ Amygdala	Martone
17	3/3	Hypothalamus	Martone
18	3/5	Thalamus	Martone
19	3/10	Visual Pathways (Comparative neuroanatomy??)	Karten
20	3/12	Future of Neuroanatomy Imaging/Informatics/Genetics etc.	Martone Karten Blesch
21	3/17	FINAL	Martone Karten Blesch
22	3/19	Return Finals/Course Evaluation Session???	Martone Karten Blesch

Exams:  There will be a final examination in this class.  Both the midterm and final will be practical exams. 

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Recommended Texts:

Kandel, E.R., et al.  Principles of Neural Science. 4th ed. McGraw Hill (2000)

Nolte, J. The Human Brain: An Introduction to Its Functional Anatomy, 5th edition, Elsevier (2002)

Squire, L.R. et al.  Fundamental Neuroscience, 2nd ed, Academic Press (2003)

Swanson, L. W. Brain Architecture:  Understanding the Basic Plan, Oxford University Press (2003)

Websites:

http://www.brainmaps.org

Neuroscience Information Framework:  http://neuinfo.org
      Comprehensive listing of neuroscience resources

Allen Brain Atlas: http://brain-map.org/welcome.do

Digital Anatomist (DA)   (Interactive Neuro syllabus): http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html

Human Brain Tutorial: http://www.uofs.edu/sheep/Human/frames1.html

Cell Centered Database:  http://ccdb.ucsd.edu

Brain Maps: http://brainmaps.org/

Mouse BIRN Atlasing Toolkit:  http://mbat.loni.ucla.edu/

Mouse Brain Atlas:  http://www.hms.harvard.edu/research/brain/atlas.html

Brain Info: A primate brain information system. http://braininfo.org

Brain Architecture Management System: http://brancusi.usc.edu/bkms/

Senselab Project, CellProp and NeuronDB: http://senselab.med.yale.edu/senselab/ 

Neuroquiz software:
http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/neuroscience/neuroquiz/index.html