LSC-20077 - Module Specification School of Life Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences
For academic year: 2020/21 Last Updated: 25 February 2021
LSC-20077 - Neurodevelopment
Coordinator: Christopher F Adams Room: N/A Tel: +44 1782 7 33943
School Office: 01782 734414
Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21
Available as a Free Standing Elective
Co-requisites
None
Prerequisites
None.
Barred Combinations
None
Description for 2020/21
In this module you will learn how the body builds its nervous system on an anatomical, physiological and molecular level. We will try to answerquestions about how neurones grow, migrate and change, how synapses are made and pruned and how wiring develops with particular reference to vertebrate nervous systems. The module includes a discussion of postnatal development and the ways in which the nervous system continues to change during childhood, adulthood and old age.
To provide knowledge and understanding of the development of nervous systems, specifically: 1) how the different parts of the nervous system form over time from fertilisation; 2) where different components of the nervous system arise in the embryo; and 3) how migration of neurones is achieved in forming specific pathways.
Intended Learning Outcomes
describe and explain how nervous system tissue becomes organized in the vertebrate embryo and develops to produce the final structures of the adult nervous system: 1,2,3discuss specific examples of pre- and post-natal plasticity, and development in the nervous system: 3prepare a practical report discussing the development of the nervous system in the chick: 2describe and explain how the lineage of individual cells of the nervous system and their ultimate fates are determined: 1,2,3
Study hours
26 Hours lectures9 Hours practical investigation1.5 Hour in course assessment plus 0.5 feedback2 Hour final examination111 Hours private study
School Rules
None
Description of Module Assessment