This course provides advanced students in cognitive science, psychology, computer science, and biology with the skills to develop numerical methods used in the study of neuroscience and cognition. We will study several main areas in neuroscience and cognition: memory and the underlying communication between hippocampus and cortical areas; movement control through the study of the cortico-basal-thalamic loops. Modulation of mesolimbic and nigrostriatal pathways by dopamine. Modulation of cortico-hippocampal circuits by acetylcholine and the role of these circuits in the onset of Alzheimer disease. We will study the coherence of electrical oscillations in different parts of the brain and how that coherence can be disturbed in disease.

This course provides advanced students in cognitive science, psychology, computer science, and biology with the skills to develop numerical methods used in the study of neuroscience and cognition. We will study several main areas in neuroscience and cognition: memory and the underlying communication between hippocampus and cortical areas; movement control through the study of the cortico-basal-thalamic loops. Modulation of mesolimbic and nigrostriatal pathways by dopamine. Modulation of cortico-hippocampal circuits by acetylcholine and the role of these circuits in the onset of Alzheimer disease. We will study the coherence of electrical oscillations in different parts of the brain and how that coherence can be disturbed in disease.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.