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Year 2 Medicine.
Contact: Three lectures, two hours of laboratory class work and a clinical correlative session a week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should:Comprehend: the terminology of neuroscience; the principles and essential information regarding the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the nervous system and the functional components of the nervous system including their organisation and major connections; the correlation of structure with function including behaviour; the major effects of lesions to clinically important areas and pathways.
Have developed: observational and organisational skills to identify and interpret the macroscopic appearance of the brain and spinal cord including cut sections, and the microscopic appearance of the nervous system; skills to analyse the structural and functional changes which may occur in disorders of the nervous system.
Appreciate: the extent and limitations of current knowledge of the organisation of the central nervous system, particularly in the context of recent profound advances in Neuroscience; the implications of such limitations in our understanding of how the brain works.
Content:
The development, structure and function of the human nervous system, with emphasis on the neural basis of sensory and motor behaviour, including vision, hearing, touch, and kinesthesis, as well as the control of posture, and the movements of the limbs, hand, head and eyes. Organisation of the cerebral cortex, the hypothalamus and limbic system, and the cerebral circulation. Clinical correlative sessions based on a clinical neurologists presentation of patients with brain function disorders relating to the weeks lecture and laboratory topics. Laboratory class work on the regional anatomy of the human nervous system and the organisation of the sensory and motor systems; brainstem and cerebellum; diencephalon; cerebral cortex; hypothalamus and limbic system.
Assessment:
A 1.5-hour examination during the course (25 per cent) and a 3-hour end-of-semester written examination (75 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (Volume 4 page 135)
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