Part IV) The neural basis of cognition (the anatomical and functional organization of the central nervous system), Part V) Perception: its diseases and disorders (pain), Part VI) Movement (the basal ganglia and cerebellum): its diseases and disorders (Parkinson's disease), Part VII) Arousal, Emotions and Behaviour Homeostasis (Brain stem, cranial nerves, epilepsy, sleep disorders and addiction), Part IX) Language, thought, Mood: thier diseases and disorders (aphasias, Depression, mania, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders)
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Institut de psychologie et Faculté de Biologie et Médecine, Bâtiment Anthropole, Unil-Dorigny, Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Switzerland
The brain is a network of more than 100 billion individual nerve cells interconnected in systems that construct our normal and pathological states. The task of neuroscience is to understand the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, move and remember. This clear understanding of the brain in its normal state has implications in disease, for example learning disabilities, mental retardation, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and neuropsychiatric disorders (i.e., schizophrenia, depression, mania and anxiety disorders). How does the brain produce the remarkable individuality of human action? Are mental processes localized in specific regions of the brain? If specific mental processes are represented locally in different brain regions, what rules relate the anatomy and physiology of a region in mentation? Can these rules be understood better by examining the region as a whole or by studying its individual nerve cells, in either humans or animal models? To what extent are mental processes hard-wired into the neural architecture of the brain? What do genes contribute to behaviour, and how is gene expression in nerve cells regulated by developmental and learning processes? How does experience alter the way the brain processes subsequent events? This intensive course based on the Neural Science book by Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell will address all these issues. To that end, we will describe how neuroscience is attempting to link molecules to mind and how proteins responsible for the activities of individual nerve cells are related to the complexity of mental processes. In essence, neuroscience is an essential science towards the clear understanding of the human brain in its normal and pathological states. This is achieved through the close collaboration between neuroscientists, geneticists, physicists and clinicians.
Kandel ER, Schwartz JH, Jessell TM 2000 & 2008 (in august 5th edition), Principles of Neural Science, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York
Conference:
3rd Mediterranean Conference of Neuroscience , Alexandria, Egypt, 13 Dec - 16 Dec, 2009.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Mini-School
Citation:
Fahim
C
(2009). Part IV) The neural basis of cognition (the anatomical and functional organization of the central nervous system), Part V) Perception: its diseases and disorders (pain), Part VI) Movement (the basal ganglia and cerebellum): its diseases and disorders (Parkinson's disease), Part VII) Arousal, Emotions and Behaviour Homeostasis (Brain stem, cranial nerves, epilepsy, sleep disorders and addiction), Part IX) Language, thought, Mood: thier diseases and disorders (aphasias, Depression, mania, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders).
Front. Neurosci.
Conference Abstract:
3rd Mediterranean Conference of Neuroscience .
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.01.2009.16.178
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Received:
26 Nov 2009;
Published Online:
26 Nov 2009.
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Correspondence:
Cherine Fahim, Institut de psychologie et Faculté de Biologie et Médecine, Bâtiment Anthropole, Unil-Dorigny, Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, Lausanne 1015 Vaud, Switzerland, cherine.fahim@unil.ch