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This Minor is intended to provide students with a basic understanding of how the nervous system functions. The Minor is composed of 25 credits: 13 required and 12 complementary. For the 12 complementary credits, at least 6 must be at the 400 or 500 level and not from the student's home department. All course selections for the Minor must be approved by the program’s adviser, Wendy Brett (Email: wendy.brett [at] mcgill.ca; Office: Dawson Hall, Rm 405). A maximum of 6 credits can be counted for both the student's primary program and for the Minor in Neuroscience.
Note: Students who have successfully completed an equivalent of CHEM 212 in CEGEP or elsewhere prior to starting at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ must replace these credits with a 3-credit elective course to satisfy the total credit requirement for the Neuroscience Minor.
Biology (Sci) : The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Bureau, Thomas E; Roy, Richard D W; Fagotto, Francesco; Zetka, Monique (Fall)
Chemistry : A survey of reactions of aliphatic and aromatic compounds including modern concepts of bonding, mechanisms, conformational analysis, and stereochemistry.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Daoust, Michel; Gauthier, Jean-Marc; Huot, Mitchell; Tsantrizos, Youla S; Pavelka, Laura (Fall) Daoust, Michel; Huot, Mitchell; Pavelka, Laura; Lumb, Jean-Philip; Gauthier, Jean-Marc (Winter) Pavelka, Laura; Daoust, Michel; Huot, Mitchell (Summer)
Fall, Winter, Summer
Prerequisite: CHEM 110 or equivalent.
Corequisite: CHEM 120 or equivalent.
Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken CHEM 211 or equivalent
Each lab section is limited enrolment
Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page ().
Neuroscience : An introduction to how nerve cells generate action potentials, communicate with one another at synapses, develop synaptic connections, early brain development, and the construction of specific neural circuits.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ruthazer, Edward; Fournier, Alyson Elise; Murai, Keith (Fall)
Neuroscience : An introduction to how the nervous system acquires and integrates information and uses it to produce behaviour.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Balaban, Evan (Winter)
12 credits selected as follows:
- At least 6 of the 12 credits have to be at the 400 or 500 level.
- At least 6 of the 400- or 500-level credits have to be from outside the student's home department.
0-6 credits from the following list of 200- and 300-level courses:
Notes:
* Students may select ANAT 212 or BIOC 212 or BIOL 201.
** Students may select either BIOL 306 or PHGY 314.
Anatomy & Cell Biology : An introductory course describing the biochemistry and molecular biology of selected key functions of animal cells, including: gene expression; mitochondrial production of metabolic energy; cellular communication with the extra-cellular environment; and regulation of cell division.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Pause, Arnim; Bouchard, Maxime; Young, Jason (Winter)
Biochemistry : An introductory course describing the biochemistry and molecular biology of selected key functions of animal cells, including: gene expression; mitochondrial production of metabolic energy; cellular communication with the extra-cellular environment; and regulation of cell division.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Pause, Arnim; Bouchard, Maxime; Laberge, Christine E (Winter)
Biology (Sci) : This course introduces the student to our modern understanding of cells and how they work. Major topics to be covered include: photosynthesis, energy metabolism and metabolic integration; plasma membrane including secretion, endocytosis and contact mediated interactions between cells; cytoskeleton including cell and organelle movement; the nervous system; hormone signaling; the cell cycle.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Brouhard, Gary; Brown, Gregory G (Winter)
Biology (Sci) : Introduction to basic principles, and to modern advances, problems and applications in the genetics of higher and lower organisms with examples representative of the biological sciences.
Terms: Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Schoen, Daniel J; Chevrette, Mario; Hipfner, David (Winter) Dankort, David; Hipfner, David (Summer)
Biology (Sci) : A survey of current knowledge and approaches in the area of regulation of gene expression, post-transcriptional control of gene expression, and signal transduction.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Schöck, Frieder; Hastings, Kenneth E M; Lasko, Paul (Fall)
Biology (Sci) : Neural mechanisms of animal behaviour; neuroethology; cellular neurophysiology, integrative networks within nervous systems; neural control of movement; processing of sensory information.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Watt, Alanna; Dent, Joseph Alan; Pollack, Gerald (Fall)
Biology (Sci) : Functional and comparative approach to neuroanatomy, examining how species changes in brain organization contribute to evolutionary changes in behaviour.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Woolley, Sarah; Sakata, Jon (Winter)
Biology (Sci) : Methods of neurobiological research, including extracellular and intracellular recordings, electrical stimulation, and the study of neuro-behavioural problems.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Krahe, Rudiger; Dent, Joseph Alan; Watt, Alanna (Winter)
Linguistics : The neurobiological study of the human language faculty. Theoretical and experimental approaches to neurolinguistics, focusing on linguistic capacity in the healthy and damaged brain.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Grant, Margaret Ann (Winter)
Fall
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Linguistics, Psychology or Neuroscience at the 200 level or above.
Neurology and Neurosurgery : A survey of the functional organization of nerve cells, signalling in the nervous system, and principles of neural development. Topics include cell polarity, neurotransmitters, neurotrophins, receptors and second messengers, cell lineage, guidance of axon outgrowth, and nerve regeneration. Emphasis will be placed on analysis of neurons at the molecular level.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Cloutier, Jean-Francois; Ragsdale, David S; Kennedy, Timothy E (Winter)
Physiology : In-depth presentation of experimental results and hypotheses on cellular communication in the nervous system and the endocrine system.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Cooper, Ellis; Sjostrom, Per Jesper; Sharif Naeini, Reza (Fall)
Fall
3 hours of lectures per week; 1-3 hours optional lab/demonstration/tutorial arranged for a maximum of 3 afternoons per term
Prerequisite: PHGY 209 or permission of the instructor.
Physiology : In depth presentation of experimental results and hypotheses underlying our current understanding of how single neurons and ensembles of neurons encode sensory information, generate movement, and control cognitive functions such as emotion, learning, and memory, during voluntary behaviours.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Cullen, Kathleen E; Sharif Naeini, Reza; Pack, Christopher (Fall)
Fall
3 hours of lectures per week
Prerequisites: PHGY 209
Psychology : An introduction to pain research and theory, with emphasis on the interactions of psychological, cultural and physiological factors in pain perception. The role of these factors in clinical pain and its management by pharmacological and non-pharmacological means will be discussed.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Psychology : The course is an introduction to the field studying how human cognitive processes, such as perception, attention, language, learning and memory, planning and organization, are related to brain processes. The material covered is primarily based on studies of the effects of different brain lesions on cognition and studies of brain activity in relation to cognitive processes with modern functional neuroimaging methods.
Terms: Fall 2013, Summer 2014
Instructors: Petrides, Michalakis (Fall) Petrides, Michalakis (Summer)
Fall
2 lectures; 1 conference
Psychology : Application of computational methods to the simulation of psychological phenomena. Comparison of natural and artificial intelligence. Symbolic and neural network techniques. Methods for evaluating simulations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Restriction: Not open to U0 or U1 students.
Psychology : The physiological bases of motivational states, with respect to feeding, drinking, sexual behavior, drug use, and aggression. Physiological bases of learning and memory.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Sossin, Wayne Steven; Abi Farah, Carole (Winter)
6-12 credits from the following list of 400- and 500-level courses, and not from the student’s home department:
*** Students may select either BIOL 514 or PSYC 514.
Biology (Sci) : Properties of nerve cells that are responsible for learning and memory. Recent advances in the understanding of neurophysiological, biochemical and structural processes relevant to neural plasticity. Emphasis on a few selected model systems involving both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Nader, Karim (Winter)
Biology (Sci) : Discussions of all aspects of nervous system development including pattern formation, cell lineage, pathfinding and targeting by growing axons, and neural regeneration. The basis for these discussions will be recent research papers and other assigned readings.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Van Meyel, Donald; Kania, Artur; Fournier, Alyson Elise (Winter)
Biology (Sci) : Discussion of fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying the general features of cellular neurobiology. An advanced course based on lectures and on a critical review of primary research papers.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Physiology : An introduction to quantitative analysis of physiological data, both to the mode of thinking and to a set of tools that allows accurate predictions of biological systems. Examples will range from oscillating genetic networks to understanding higher brain function. Modelling and data analysis through examples and exercises will be emphasized.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Cook, Erik; Glavinovic, Mladen I; Chacron, Maurice (Fall)
Physiology : Topics of current interest in neurophysiology including the development of neurons and synapses, physiology of ionic channels, presynaptic and postsynaptic events in synaptic transmission and neuronal interactions in CNS function.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Cooper, Ellis; Cohen, Monroe W; Bourque, Charles W (Fall)
Fall
3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: PHGY 311 or equivalent
Restriction: Departmental approval required
Physiology : A discussion of the principal theories and interesting new developments in the study of ion channels. Based on a textbook, computer exercises and critical reading and presentation of research papers. Topics include: Properties of voltage-and ligand-gated channels, single channel analysis, structure and function of ion channels.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Sharif Naeini, Reza; Ragsdale, David S; Cooper, Ellis; Bourque, Charles W (Winter)
Winter
Offered in even numbered years
1 1/2 hour lecture, 1 1/2 hour seminar
Prerequisite: PHGY 311
Priority to Graduate and Honours students; others by permission of instructors.
Physiology : An introduction to the field of chronobiology. The aim is to provide basic instruction on different types of biological rhythms, with particular focus on circadian rhythms.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Cermakian, Nicolas; Bernard, Daniel; Storch, Kai-Florian (Fall)
Physiology : Topics of current interest in systems neurophysiology and behavioural neuroscience including: the neural representation of sensory information and motor behaviours, models of sensory motor integration, and the computational analysis of problems in motor control and perception. Students will be expected to present and critically discuss journal articles in class.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Cullen, Kathleen E; Guitton, Daniel E; Cook, Erik (Winter)
Winter
Restriction: Permission of the instructor required.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHGY 456
Psychology : Developments in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychiatry via readings from primary sources. Topics include the neural bases of memory, emotion, social cognition and neuropsychiatric diseases. Integrating knowledge from studies in clinical populations and functional neuroimaging studies.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Raz, Amir (Fall)
Psychology : A systematic examination of the sensorimotor system, drawing on models and data from both behavioural and physiological studies. Topics include: cortical motor areas, cerebellum, basal ganglia, spinal mechanisms, motor unit properties and force production, prioception, muscle properties.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Ostry, David J (Winter)
Winter
2 lectures
Prerequisite: PSYC 308 or permission of instructor
Psychology : This course covers basic biological mechanisms, possible functions and behavioural aspects of sleep. Additional topics include: disorders of sleep, their effects on behaviour and cognition, and treatment approaches; as well as medical, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and drugs, that affect sleep.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Pompeiano, Maria (Fall)
Psychology : Memory systems are studied with an emphasis on the neural computations that occur at various stages of the processing stream, focusing on the hippocampus, amygdala, basal ganglia, cerebellum and cortex. The data reviewed is obtained from human, non-human primates and rodents, with single unit recording, neuroimaging and brain damaged subjects.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Rajah, Maria (Winter)
Psychology : Auditory perception and its neural correlates, covering acoustics, auditory anatomy and neurobiology, and the neural correlates of perception of loudness, pitch, spatial location, frequency specificity, musical, speech sounds, and segregation of component sounds in multi-sound environments in both humans and animals.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Balaban, Evan (Fall)
Fall
2 lectures
Prerequisite: Undergraduate courses in perception or sound or neuroscience and permission of instructor.
Restrictions: For U3 and graduate students.
Psychology : An introduction to cognitive properties and neural mechanisms of human attention. The material will include an overview of the history of attention research, contemporary theories of attention, the varieties of attention, behavioral and neuroimaging experimental methods, the nature of attentional dysfunctions, and the links between attention and other cognitive functions including memory and consciousness.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ristic, Jelena (Fall)
Psychology : Properties of nerve cells that are responsible for learning and memory. Recent advances in the understanding of neurophysiological, biochemical and structural processes relevant to neural plasticity. Emphasis on a few selected model systems involving both vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Nader, Karim (Winter)
Psychology : Anatomical, biochemical and physiological aspects of neurotransmitter systems in the brain, current theories of the function of these systems in normal and abnormal behaviour, and the actions of psychotropic drugs.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Pompeiano, Maria (Winter)
Psychology : We examine in detail the structure of the visual system, and its function as reflected in the perceptual abilities and behaviour of the organism. Parallels are also drawn with other sensory systems to demonstrate general principles of sensory coding.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Kingdom, Frederick A A; Mullen, Kathleen T (Winter)
Winter
2 lectures
Psychology : The multi-disciplinary study of intelligent systems. Problems in vision, memory, categorization, choice, problem solving, cognitive development, syntax, language acquisition, and rationality. Rule-based and connectionist approaches.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisites: Admission to the Cognitive Science Minor or permission of instructor. Students should ideally have some cognitive science background in at least two disciplines
Psychiatry : Covers biochemical mechanisms underlying central nervous system function. Introduces basic neuroanatomy, CNS cell types and morphology, neuronal excitability, chemically mediated transmission, glial function. Biochemistry of specific neurotransmitters, endocrine effects on brain, brain energy metabolism and cerebral ischemia (stroke). With examples, where relevant, of biochemical processes disrupted in human CNS disease.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Flores Parkman, Ana Cecilia; Mechawar, Naguib; Wong, Tak Pan (Winter)
Psychiatry : Current theories on the neurobiological basis of most well known mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, dementia). Methods and strategies in research on genetic, physiological and biochemical factors in mental illness will be discussed. Discussion will also focus on the rationale for present treatment approaches and on promising new approaches.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Srivastava, Lalit K; Ernst, Carl; Wong, Tak Pan (Winter)
Winter
3 hours
Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BIOC 212 and BIOC 311, or BIOC 312, or BIOL 200 and BIOL 201, or PHGY 311, or PSYC 308 and an upper-level biological science course with permission of the instructors, or equivalent. Basic knowledge of cellular and molecular biology is required.
Restriction: Open to U3 and graduate students only.
Restriction: Graduate Studies: strongly recommended for M.Sc. students in Psychiatry.
Psychiatry : Multidisciplinary issues on pathogenesis and pathophysiology of schizophrenia from molecular genetics to cognitive psychology, including current theories of the disorder based on up-to-date evidence from recent research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.