ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
To acquire a basic knowledge about the nervous system and how the transmission of signals takes place, having into account the different levels: I. the cellular/molecular one, II. The synaptic one and III. The behaviour circuits.
Specific objectives:
1. Basic knowledge of the constituents of the nervous system.
2. How the signals are generated and transmitted from one neuron to another one.
3. Interaction between neurotransmitters and their receptors.
4. To individually analyse and study the neurotransmitters systems.
THEORY (26 h)
Cellular components of the nervous tissue. (3 h)
Information processing in dendrites: Postsynaptic potentials and subliminal currents. Patterns of neuronal discharge. (4 h)
Ionic channels: properties. Molecular biology of voltage-gated ion channels. (5 h)
Different modes of neuronal communication: electrical and chemical transmission. The chemical neurotransmission: steps. Release of neurotransmitters: excitation-secretion coupling. Short-term synaptic plasticity. (4 h)
Neurotransmitter receptors. Uptake of neurotransmitters: transporters. (5 h)
Pharmacology and biochemistry of the synaptic transmission. (5 h)
SEMINARS (2 + 2 h): Issues and problems related to the topics of the program will be developed.
TUTORIALS (2 h): They will be focused on assisting students in their learning process, thus helping them to improve their academic performance. They will cover areas such as guidance in time management and motivation, dealing with their doubts, self-assessments and information processing.
PRACTICAL SESSIONS (9 h)
Subliminal currents
Synaptic function. Different kinds of synapses
Basic
Byrne, J.H. and M. W., 2014. From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. 3th ed. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
Hammond, C., 2008. Cellular and MolecularN europhysiology. [Recurso electrónico]. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Academic Press. Acceso restrinxido usuarios USC <http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9…>
Kandel, E.R. et al., 2001. Principios de Neurociencia. 4ª ed. Madrid: McGraw-Hill.
Squire, L.R. et al., 2013. Fundamental Neuroscience. 4th ed. Amsterdam: Academic Press
Complementary
Brady, S.T. et al., 2012. Basic Neurochemistry: Principles of Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Neurobiology. 8th ed. Waltham, MA:
Academic Press-Elsevier.
Basic/general
The indicated in the memory biology dregree
Specific
CE2a - competential scope: cells, tissues and organs: Structure and function of eukaryotic cells
CE7.a - competential scope: Biotechnology and biomedicine: Biological basis of diseases
CE7.c -competential scope: Biotechnology and biomedicine: biology of the nervous system
Tranversal
CT1 – Ability for analysis and synthesis
CT2 - Ability for reasoning and argumentation
CT3 - Ability to work in a team and address problematic situations collectively
CT4 - Ability to obtain adequate, diverse and updated information
CT5 - Ability to develop and present an organized and comprehensible text
CT6 - Ability to make a presentation in public in a clear, concise and consistent manner
CT9 - Use of bibliographic information and Internet
CT10 - Use information in a foreign language
CT11 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge
Lectures:
Lectures. To develop the professor the basic aspects the program. Students can use virtual campus tools to download summaries of presentations.
Interactive classes:
Seminars: Lectures and group working in the clasroom. Discuss issues and problems related to the syllabus.
Tutoring: remote virtual
Interactive up 3. Exam (in the classroom/on line)
Lectures: up to 7. In the classroom
TOTAL: 3+7
Minimum score 3 (about 7) lectures/seminar to add the interactive grades
For cases of fraudulent realization of exercises or tests USC misconduct regulations rules will be aplicable.
The following competences will be assessed in:
the exam: CT1, CT2, CT10, CT 11, CE2.a, CE7.a y CE7.c
the seminars: CT1, CT2, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT9, CT10, CE2.a, CE7.a y CE7.c
the practical sessions: CT2, CT3, CT1
the active participation in the classroom: CT1, CT2, CT 11, CE2.a, CE7.a y CE7.c
4,5 ECTS, 25h/credict: 112,5 h
Regulated hours:
Lectures: 26
Seminars: 4
Practical sessions: 9
Tutorials: 2
Exam: 2
Total presencial hours: 43
Hours of study:
Lectures: 50
Seminars and practical sessions: 19,5
Total study and personal work: 69,5
It is highly recommended that students participate actively in all the evaluable sections and keep up to date the study of the subjet.
Students will online access to an important part of the didactic material used on the regular lectures via USC Campus virtual