- Docente: Jozsef Zoltan Kiss
- Docente: Charles Quairiaux
This course focuses on the functional neuroanatomy of the human brain. It will cover the fundamentals of regional organization with functional considerations and will illustrate the region's cardinal manifestations in neurological and psychiatric diseases. The course is intented for non-medical students preparing a master degree in the domain of neuroscience. The maximum number of students will be 30. The course format will be a combination of lectures with pratical demonstrations utilizing postmortem human brain preparations, MRI and neurofunctional images. This course will require active participation and presence. Failing to attend classes (without good reasons) leads to failure of the exam. Since the number of participants is limited, students should register to claire.maislisch@unige.ch IN ADDITION to their faculty or doctoral school. Descriptive 1) Gross-anatomy of the human brain I 2) Gross-anatomy of the human brain II 3) Microscopic structure of the human brain 4) Spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system (neuroanatomy of pain, spinal cord injuries) 5) Brain stem and cerebellum (vital functions, neuroanatomy of the subcortical activation system, brain stem injuries, ataxie) 6) Diencephalon and basal ganglia (thalamic injuries, diseases of the extrapyramidal system) 7) Cerebral cortex I. Parietal, insular and lateral occipito-temporal cortex (representation of body and space, object recognition, 'where ' and 'what' system, neglect, agnosie) 8) Cerebral cortex II. Medio-basal cortex and the limbic system concept (emotion, memory, homeostasis, hormones, stress, default network, amnesia) 9) Cerebral cortex III. The frontal and superior temporal cortex (executive functions, hearing, language, aphasia) 10) Human brain development and evolution. Course and exam in English |