Date
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Topic
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Required Readings
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Week
1
Jan. 18
|
Introduction
Pretest quiz
|
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Week
2
Jan. 23-25 |
Review of properties of
neural
connectivity and activity |
Web tutorial |
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Background & Basic Concepts
|
-Hebb, 1949, Chapter 4, pp. 60-69
-Donegan &
Thompson, The Search for the Engram, pp 3-30 |
Week
3
Jan. 30 & Feb. 1 |
Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity
|
-Kandel,The Molecular Biology
of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses
-Hitier et al.,
Memories of a fly |
Week
4
Feb. 6-8 |
LTP & LTD
|
-Web Review
-Malenka &
Bear, LTP and LTD: An
embarrassment of riches
-Heyman Dust clearing on long-term potentiation
debate
|
Week
5
Feb. 13-15 |
Adult Neurogenesis
|
Kempermann & Gage, New
nerve cells for the adult brain
|
Week
6
Feb. 20
|
TEST 1
|
|
Feb
22
|
Hippocampus:
What does it do?
|
-Eichenbaum,
Episodic memory and the
hippocampus: It's about time
-Mizumori,
Hippocampal place
fields: A neural code for episodic memory?
|
Week
7
Feb 27
&
March 1
|
", Amygdala
Fear Conditioning &
|
-LeDoux, Emotion, memory and the brain
|
Week
8
March 6- 8
|
Reconsolidation |
-Nader, Memory traces unbound |
Week
9
March
13-15
|
SPRING BREAK
|
|
Week
10
March 20-22
|
Sleep & Memory |
-Winson,
The meaning of dreams
-Stickgold,
Sleep-dependent memory
consolidation |
|
Motor learning
Motor Cortex |
-Martin & Morris, Cortical plasticity: It's all the
range!
-Monfils
et al., In search of the motor
engram... |
Week
11
March 27-29 |
“, Neocortical map plasticity
|
-Rauschecker, Cortical map plasticity in animals and
humans
-Holloway,
The mutable brain
|
|
Cerebellum
|
Thompson, In search of memory traces
|
Week
12
April 3
|
TEST 2
|
|
April 5
|
Stress & Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
|
-Sapolsky, Taming stress
-Miller
& McEwen, Establishing an agenda
for translational research on PTSD
|
Week
13
April 10-12
|
" Neuroplasticity &
Addiction
|
Nestler & Malenka, The addicted brain
|
|
Experience & Development
|
Black & Greenough, Developmental
Approaches to the Memory Process
|
Week
14
April 17-19
|
“ and Cross-Modal Plasticity
|
-Sacks, To See and Not See
-Rauschecker, Compensatory
Plasticity and Sensory Substitution
|
Week
15
April 24-26
|
Aging & Alzheimer’s
|
-Burke and Barnes, Neural plasticity in the aging brain
-Selkoe,
Aging brain, aging mind
|
Week
16
May 1-3
|
Brain Damage |
Jones, How
experience shapes the injured brain
|
Finals
May 11
|
Est. FINAL
9AM to 12PM
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