Postgraduate Course: Neuroanatomy (BIME11004)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh Medical School	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Course description: Lecture (10x1 hour lectures), practical class (5x3 hour practicals), and seminar (5x2 hour seminars) based course covering core aspects of gross and cellular neuroanatomy, incorporating an overview of significant diseases of the nervous system. Lectures and practical classes will cover all the major areas associated with gross and cellular neuroanatomy, based around five main topics (each taking up two weeks of the course): Gross anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous systems (including blood supply and meninges) Sensory pathways Motor pathways Cranial nerves Spinal cord, spinal nerves and autonomic nervous system Practical classes will use prosected human specimens alongside models and medical imaging (e.g. arteriograms), with students directed towards salient features using an in-house generated practical workbook. Lectures and practical classes will be supplemented by student-directed learning, based around the Crossman & Neary "Neuroanatomy: An Illustrated Colour Text" textbook. For the seminar sessions, students will study and present scientific papers and/or review articles which address the relationship between neuroanatomy and neurodegenerative disease. Each of the five sessions will focus on a different set of neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis and stroke), and will be scheduled to fit with the topic being taught in concurrent lecture and practical sessions (e.g. stroke when taking taught sessions covering blood supply to the brain). The class will be split into 5 groups and each group will be responsible for presenting the papers at one weekly seminar. Presentations will be marked by academic staff.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 5, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 15, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 76 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 70 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Seminar presentations (30%) A practical 'Spot' type examination where understanding of neuroanatomical structure and function will be assessed (70%)
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No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: On completion of the course, students will have an appreciation of the gross and cellular anatomy of the nervous system Have an ability to identify and trace functional pathways at different levels throughout the nervous system Be able to relate structure to function in the context of neurodegenerative disease Be able critically read and present data from scientific papers