Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THEORETICAL NEURSCIENCE

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Modeling of and computation by single neurons. Establish proficiency in the use of NEURON, a widely-used neurosimulation package, and so provide motivation and deliver a practical skill. From there, poke under NEURON's hood and derive the fundamental equations of neurodynamics and construct simple analytical and numerical procedures for their solution. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine. Cross-list: CAAM 415.

Long Title: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE I

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Overview of neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to higher mental functions including sensation and perception, attention, motor control, and neuroplasticity. Other topics include basic neuroanatomy, experimental and clinical investigative methods and the historical and philosophical context of contemporary neuroscience. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine. Cross-list: PSYC 575.

Long Title: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE II

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of neuropsychological and cognitive service approaches to higher mental functions including language, memory, executive functions, reasoning, and numerical processing. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine. Cross-list: PSYC 576.

Long Title: OPTICAL IMAGING

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course includes a theoretical portion which will introduce the fundamentals of optical imaging of neural activity, present the devices that are employed, and review applications and discuss their results. In addition, in a practical part, students will design, set up, and perform simple in vitro experiments to gain practical experience with this exciting and powerful technology. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: CONCEPTS OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the field of learning and memory. This field has exploded in the last few years with the introduction of new techniques, new approaches, and new concepts. The course will introduce the student to classical and modern concepts of learning and memory across all levels at which learning and memory is studied, including behavioral, anatomical, cellular, molecular and genetic levels of analysis. The basic concepts of learning and memory will also be related to known diseases of learning and memory. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE CORE I

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Description: A broad introductory survey covering all aspects of neuroscience, team-taught by faculty from Baylor College of Medicine. Includes a lab at Baylor. This is the entry level neuroscience course for all Rice students. Please contact Dr. James Pomerantz if you wish to enroll.

Long Title: INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE CORE II

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): NEUR 511

Description: A broad introductory survey covering all aspects of neuroscience, team-taught by faculty from Baylor College of Medicine. A continuation of NEUR 511. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: NEURAL DEVELOPMENT

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An advanced graduate course focusing on molecular genetic studies. Integrates molecular patterning of nervous system with developmental neuroscience using a cross-species approach, with an emphasis on the visual system. Topics include the biochemical and genetic basis for neural plasticity, neurotrophic factors in neural development, and the molecular mechanism of growth core guidance and synapse formation. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: SENSORY SYSTEMS

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A two-part course covering sensory transduction in audition, touch, and the chemical senses, and a detailed coverage of the visual system, including retinal structures and central pathways, phototransduction, receptive fields, and functional organization in the cortex. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: MECHANISMS OF MEMORY

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Synthesizes our understanding of the mechanicsm of higher-order memory formation covering learning theory, cellular physiology and biochemistry and discussing memory disorders. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: TEN UNSOLVED QUESTIONS IN NEUROSCIENCE

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Neuroscience has yet to establish its general principles. This course introduces the major topics including memory, sleep, consciousness, information in neural activity, emotions, plasticity, and intelligence. Each week's lecture introduces a new problem, addressing why the question is important, its history, current thinking, and what we have learned. Course taught at Baylor College of Medicine.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY

Department: Neuroscience

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Anatomy and function of components of the nervous system with an emphasis on the central nervous system.