NROS412

The course is designed to provide a solid grounding in mechanisms of learning and memory at the molecular, cellular, behavioral level. After all, learning and remembering are properties of an organism that interacts with its environment and requires molecules and neural circuits that can sense, process, and output information via behavior. Only with insights at all levels can one begin to approach a comprehensive understanding of learning and memory.
A combination of lectures and discussions of research papers will comprehensively discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the neurobiological basis of learning and memory derived from invertebrate to mammalian model systems. The course will discuss topics including the biochemical basis of cellular information processing, genes and gene regulation in memory formation, the role of long-term changes in synaptic connections for memory, multimodal signal integration at the molecular level and its role in memory, and biochemical mechanisms of information storage.

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