2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

BIOL 143 - Neuroscience


Biology 143 introduces students to the biology of nervous systems and their relationship to behavior and disease.  Mammalian nervous systems are emphasized, but from a comparative standpoint.  The course covers topics ranging from neuronal structure and function, synaptic communication, and intra- and intercellular signaling systems, to the development and regeneration of nervous systems, the processing of sensory information, and complex functions such as learning, memory, cognition, and emotion.

Prerequisites: BIOL 111 , or BIOL 118  , or  BIOL 204  (formerly BIOL 137).

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.