Checking date: 18/02/2025


Course: 2024/2025

Introduction to neurobiology
(19763)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


Coordinating teacher: ZALDIVAR DIEZ DE BONILLA, JOSEFA

Department assigned to the subject: Departamento de Neurociencia y Ciencias Biomédicas

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Learning Outcomes
K5: Understands the biological basis for the structure and function of the nervous system. S1: Uses a variety of techniques to find, manage, integrate and critically evaluate available information for the development of professional activities in Neuroscience, especially in the digital sphere S5: Appropriately uses the scientific and technical vocabulary of the different subfields within Neuroscience. S6: Has an understanding of the biological bases of pathologies of the nervous system, as well as the biological and socio-economic effects these pathologies have on the lives of people who suffer from them. C1: Apply knowledge about the biological basis of Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders and their effects to the development of improved diagnostics and treatments. C2: Apply knowledge about the organisation, structure and function of the Central Nervous System (CNS) to contribute to the evolution and improvement of technologies and systems for computing, data handling and analysis. C5: Apply your neuroscience knowledge in a unifying and integrated fashion as part of a multidisciplinary team (pharmaceutical sector, health industry, diagnostic techniques, health information technologies, government agencies and regulatory bodies. C6: Apply the results of your comprehensive training to your everyday professional activities, combining Neuroscience knowledge with a solid foundation of ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights, diversity and democratic values. C7: Apply the scientific and technical principles you acquired during your undergraduate training, together with your own natural learning capabilities, to better adapt to novel opportunities arising from scientific and technological development.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction and General Concepts of Neurobiology. 2. Cellular and Histological Basis of the Nervous System (NS). 3. Nerve impulse. Synapses. Neurotransmitters. 4. Structure, anatomy and development of the NS. 5. Information input systems. Sensory and proprioceptive functions. 6. Motor functions. 7. Autonomic functions. 8. Neuroendocrine functions. 9. Regulatory and homeostatic functions (feeding, hydration, rhythmicity, sleep).
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Laboratory session. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject. Internships and directed laboratory activities.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Augustine GJ, Groh JM, Huettel SA, LaMantia AS, White LE, Purves D. Neuroscience, Seventh Edition. Oxford University Press. 2024
  • Barresi MJF, Gilbert SF. Developmental Biology, International Thirteenth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2023

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.