Neurophysiology [ LPSP1133 ]
3.0 crédits ECTS
37.5 h + 4.0 h
2q
| Teacher(s) |
Tajeddine Nicolas ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education: General
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> Preparatory year for Master in Family and Sexuality Studies
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSP
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