KINE 4320 3.0:
Neuronal Development for Activity and Health
Winter 2013
COURSE
SCHEDULE
Your TA is Christine
Wong. Email: cwong87@yorku.ca
LECTURES:
Lecture 1
Course Overview
Lecture 2
Early brain development
Lecture
3
Induction
of the neural plate
Lecture
4
Neural Tube formation and factors involved in neural
induction
Lecture 5 Neuronal Proliferation and Migration
Lecture 6 Developmental Genes (Hox genes) and
Retinoic acid
Lecture
7
Developmental
brain abnormalities -Neural Tube Defects
Lecture 8
JANUARY 31 - MIDTERM
EXAM #1 (LECTURE 2-7)
You may view your test with Christine
in Lumbers 222
Office hours:
Thursday
Feb 28, 1:00-2:00 PM
Friday March 1, 1:00-2:00 PM
Monday March 4, 3:00-4:00 PM
Lecture
9
Sonic
hedgehog in
development; Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome
Lecture
10
Neural crest cell migration
Lecture 11
Neuronal polarity, axonal and dendritic growth
Lecture
12
Axonal outgrowth
READING BREAK
Lecture 13
Synaptogenesis
Lecture
14
Synaptic rearangement and
plasticity
Lecture 15 MARCH 5
- MIDTERM
EXAM #1
(LECTURE 9-14)
Lecture 16
Myelination (Handouts)
Lecture 17 Critical Period -
Experience
dependent synaptic plasticity (Handouts)
Lecture
18
Nature vs. nurture (Handouts)
Lecture
19
Environmental causes
of
Neuronal Defect (Handouts)
Lecture 20 Disorders of Early
Neuronal Development - Ausitm Spectrum Disorders (Handouts)
Lecture
21 Methods in Studying
Brain Development (Handouts)
Office hours before
the exam:
April 2, 9 and
16 1:00-2:00pm
FINAL EXAM
(LECTURE 16-21)
THURSDAY, APRIL 18 at 2:00pm SLH E
FINAL
EXAM MARKS
(grades only from the final exam)