Neuro1: Cells, computation, and synapses
Instructor: Upinder Bhalla and Sumantra Chattarji
Time: 11.30 AM - 1.00 PM
Days: Monday/Wednesday/Friday
Credits: 3
Class Room: Safeda
Course Outline:
- Philosophy and neuroscience
- Computatioon basics. Logic, Intelligence and Turing
- Equivalent circuit, cable theory and passive properties of cells
- Passive summation and computation
- Ligand and voltage-gated channels
- Channel properties and their effect on cell firing
- Complex cells and computation with active channels
- Chemical computation in neurons
- Neural Coding
- Abstract network computation
- Visual computation
- Synaptic transmission Chemical and electrical
- Glia
- Presynaptic mechanims
- postsynaptic mechanisms
- Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus
- long term potentiation and depression
- Learning and memory
- Structural plasticity
- Neuroanatomy (lab)
Course Term: Jan Term - 2018
Course Year: 2017/2018