400. Neuroscience Seminar
3 hours   Most recent syllabus
Neuroscience seminars are capstone courses for Neuroscience majors designed to help students integrate and apply their knowledge of neuroscience as well as help them consolidate their research, analysis, writing, and presentation skills. These courses will focus on the analysis and discussion of the original research literature in a selected area of neuroscience. Prerequisite: Neuroscience major and senior status or consent of the instructor. Enrollment Limit: 14.

Neuroscience of Thought
Topics may include attention, working memory, reward, perception, consciousness and goal directed behavior as well as breakdowns in thought processes such as schizophrenia and ADHD. A unifying principle used to tie these topics together will be the need for decision-making mechanisms to exist in the brain.
Mr. Loose

Evolution of Brain and Behavior
Topics may include evolutionary aspects of brain size, sensory specializations, language, altruism, consciousness, emotions, theory of mind, hominid social interactions, morality and culture.
Mr. Braford

Neurobiology of Disease
The seminar examines neurobiological and behavioral features of major neural and psychiatric illnesses. Possible topics for consideration include: multiple sclerosis, prion diseases, Huntington, Parkinson's and Alzheimers's disease, Down's syndrome, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, stroke, epilepsy, neuropathy, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorders.
Mr. Smith