Principles of Neuroscience
Code
11121
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Department
CFAT
Credits
8
Teacher in charge
Prof. Doutor Carlos Filipe
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The main learning outcome of this curricular unit is the buildup, in a sequential and coordinated manner, of a conceptual body, so far disseminated by different curricular units, providing the students with the necessary basis for the understanding of Neurological and Psychiatric disorders. A second purpose of this Unit is to become the starting point and the facilitator of a further deepening of knowledge in the vast field of Neuroscience. The articulation of knowledge, experience and different methodologies is an asset, made possible by the collaboration of a team of professors coming from various backgrounds. In this Unit is expected that the students gain knowledge and develop some clinical evaluation skills, allowing them to address the disciplines of Psychiatry and Neurology competently and to understand critically the main current research lines in Neuroscience.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
The curriculum of the Neuroscience Unit was designed in order to allow an acquisition of sequential and articulated knowledge: from the anatomical to the functional level, going through the neural networks and the structures that support them; from neurophysiology and biochemistry to the basis of neurocognitive organization. The curriculum goes as follows: General Embryology and Histology of Central Nervous System; Anatomy of the Central Nervous System; Introduction to Neuroradiology; Basic neurophysiology; Neurophysiology of vision and hearing; Introduction to Neurochemistry; Introduction to Psychopharmacology; Physiology of basal ganglia and neurobiological bases of movement and action; Higher nervous functions (language, attention, memory and gnosis); Sleep physiology.
Bibliography
Neuroscience
Neuroscience Exploring the Brain
Alan R. Crossman, David Neary (4ª Edição) (2010)
Churchill Livingstone
Teaching method
Main Lectures and Seminars : The main theoretical contents of the discipline are presented in these lectures. They take place twice a week and have a duration of 50 minutes each.
Small group lectures: In addition to the theoretical content, clinical cases are discussed and a direct interaction and cooperation between teacher and students is promoted. These classes have a duration of 120 minutes and take place twice a week.
The assessment of students is made in two different moments:
1) at the end of the Neuronatomy lessons cycle, exclusively concerning its content (20% weight in the final classification);
2) at the end of the semester, by a written multiple choice questions test (five out of one is correct) and figures to label. The questions cover the entire content of the UC (theoretical, practical and seminars) and are distributed so evenly cover all areas of knowledge taught.
Evaluation method
Main Lectures and Seminars : The main theoretical contents of the discipline are presented in these lectures. They take place twice a week and have a duration of 50 minutes each.
Small group lectures: In addition to the theoretical content, clinical cases are discussed and a direct interaction and cooperation between teacher and students is promoted. These classes have a duration of 120 minutes and take place twice a week.
The assessment of students is made in two different moments:
1) at the end of the Neuronatomy lessons cycle, exclusively concerning its content (20% weight in the final classification);
2) at the end of the semester, by a written multiple choice questions test (five out of one is correct) and figures to label. The questions cover the entire content of the UC (theoretical, practical and seminars) and are distributed so evenly cover all areas of knowledge taught.