Spring 2024

COGSCI 132 001 - LEC 001

Rhythms of the Brain: from Neuronal Communication to Function

Jose A Ramirez

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

Mo, We, Fr

01:00 pm - 01:59 pm

Evans 60

Class #:22171

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 80

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 80

Waitlist Max: 20

Open Reserved Seats:

1 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

Hours & Workload

8 to 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 4 to 6 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Other classes by Jose A Ramirez

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.