NEUROSCIENCE (ADVANCED COURSE)
cod. 19318

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Logica e filosofia della scienza (M-FIL/02)
Field
Discipline antropologico sociologiche, filosofico pedagogiche e biologico tecniche
Type of training activity
Basic
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

To achieve an advanced knowledge about the sensory, motor and cognitive aspects of the nervous system and to achieve a basic knowledge of neuropsychology. 

Prerequisites

To have followed a basic course of neuroscience.

Course unit content

<br />Organization of the motor system and sensorimotor transformation. Visual perception. Motor and cognitive aspects of cerebellum and basal ganglia. Neurophysiological and neuropsychological bases of language, praxis, attention and space. Hemispheric specialization. Neurobiological bases of learning and memory. Plasticity of the nervous system. Emotions and limbic system.

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell: Principi di Neuroscienze, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana<br />Denes, Pizzamiglio: Manuale di Neuropsicologia. Zanichelli Pinel: Psicobiologia

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