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Neurophysiology [ LPSP1133 ]


3.0 crédits ECTS  37.5 h + 4.0 h   2q 

Teacher(s) Roucoux André ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Main themes 1. Introduction to the main methods and techniques of investigation (recording, lesion, stimulation, imaging, mapping, anatomo-clinical correlation etc) 2. Sensory organs and transduction mechanisms 3. Central mechanisms for information processing: vision, hearing, taste and olfaction, somesthesia, pain, proprioception, balance 4. Motor control (tonus, posture, spinal reflexes, pyramidal and extrapyramidal control, automatic and voluntary movements, locomotion, manipulation, motor coordination etc.) 5. Sensory-motor integration 6. Vegetative nervous system (ortho- and parasympathetic) and principles of neuroendocrinology 7. For some topics, chosen as paradigms (e.g. the visual system), developmental and comparative neurophysiological perspectives are covered.
Aims - To study the elementary aspects of the neurophysiological mechanisms of behaviour : coding, information processing and integration, nervous control of posture and movement, vegetative nervous system. The neuro-anatomical principles of these functions are studied. - To identify the main principles of the functional organization of the central and peripheral nervous system (transduction, structure, working, function, parallel processing, hierarchical processing, specialization, control systems etc.) - To examine, through various examples, the laws governing the development of the nervous system. - To provide students with the basic knowledge essential for the understanding of other neuroscience courses they may take at a later stage e.g. psychophysiology, neuropsychology, neurology etc.
Content - To study the neurophysiological mechanisms of behaviour : coding, information processing and integration, nervous control of posture and movement, vegetative nervous system. The neuro-anatomical principles of these functions are studied - To identify the main principles of the functional organization of the central and peripheral nervous system (transduction, structure, working, function, parallel processing, hierarchical processing, specialization, control systems etc.) - To examine, through various examples, the laws governing the development of the nervous system - To provide students with the basic knowledge essential for the understanding of other neuroscience courses they may take at a later stage e.g. psychophysiology, neuropsychology, neurology etc.
Other information In addition to the lectures, students are required to attend two sessions of neuro-anatomy demonstration. (2 x 2 hours) The course is based mainly on material from the course on general and genetic biology (PSP 1131, A. Moens) ; students are therefore required to have taken this course.
Cycle et année
d'étude
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education: General
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> Preparatory year for Master in Family and Sexuality Studies
Faculty or entity
in charge
> PSP


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