KINE 3670 3.0: Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience with Applications to Health
COURSE SCHEDULE

LOCATION ACE003
Your TA is Christine Wong. Email: cwong87@yorku.ca

LECTURES:

Lecture 1  Course Overview
Lecture 2  The Anatomy of the Nervous system, MRI, PET
Lecture 3 Neurons and glia
Lecture 4   Resting Membrane Potential, Nernst and Goldman equation.
Lecture 5   Action potential, Saltatory Conduction
Lecture 6   Multiple Sclerosis I – Symptoms Epidemiology Genes
Lecture 7   Multiple Sclerosis II – Types of MS, stages and symptoms
Lecture 8   Synaptic transmission I - Electrical and chemical synapses
Lecture 9   FEBRUARY 5 - MIDTERM EXAM #1 (Lectures 2-7) 
MIDTERM #1 MARKS
You may view the exam with Christine in Lumbers 222
Office hours:
  Wednesday March 6, 2:00-3:00 PM
Monday March 11, 10:00-11:00 AM
Lecture 10  Synaptic transmission II - Postsynaptic Receptors
Lecture 11   Neurotransmitters I: ACh, Myasthenia gravis
Lecture 12   Neurotransmitters II:  GABA, Glutamate, Serotonine
READING BREAK
Lecture 13   Glutamate Receptors and Integration of  synaptic input
Lecture 14  Neurotransmitters III: catecholamines; Neurodegenerative disorders (Parkinson’s and Huntington's Disease).
Lecture 15   Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Lecture 16  MARCH 7 - MIDTERM EXAM #2 (Lectures 8-14)  

MIDTERM #2 MARKS

Lecture 17   Memory continues
Lecture 18   Alzheimer's Disease (see supplementary readings)
Lecture 19   Drugs and Addiction
Lecture 20  Molecular Basis of Schizophrenia
Lecture 21 Autism Spectrum Disorders
Office hours before the exam:
April 2, 9 and 16   1:00-2:00pm
FINAL EXAM (Lectures 15-21):
MONDAY, APRIL 22 at 9:00am     LSB 105

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:
Multiple Sclerosis – Compston 2002, -Fox 2004, -Hauser 2006, -Sospedra 2005, -Waxman 2004
Alzheimer's Disease – Kennedy 2003, - Mattson 2004, Selkoe 2004, - Trojanowski 2005
Drugs and Addiction – Chao and Nestler, 2004

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION:
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards Program (USRA)