Principles of Neuroscience (P02015)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-PON

This course introduces students to the principles of experimental and computational neuroscience, by presenting different topics in neuroscience. The course provides research training to students in the 1+3 yr DTC PhD programme.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : None. This course is only open to students on the MSc by Research in Neuroinformatics

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Research in Informatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2008	09:00	17:00			G0.7 Informatics Forum

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	09:00	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

After following the course the students will be able to:
- critically evaluate primary research literature in neuroscience
- evaluate the impact of neuroscience research in a computational context
- discuss recent developments in neuroscience and current experimental methodologies and techniques
- communicate and summarize scientific papers to a non-specialist audience
- discuss a research topic in detail and form new hypotheses.