06551 - Neurophysiology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)

Learning outcomes

To understand and learn the basic functional organization of the nervous system, with a focus on synapses, sensory receptors, reflexes, voluntary motor control, autonomic nervous function, sleep, and consciousness.

Course contents

(the following is an outline of course contents. please, cf. the Italian version and/or ask the teacher for full details)


basic functional organization of the nervous system, synapses,   sensory receptors, motor reflexes, voluntary motor control, autonomic nervous function.

Readings/Bibliography

Any undergraduate-level textbook of physiology.

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination on the topics discussed during the lectures and listed in the course contents above.

Teaching tools

Lesson schemes available for download from the AMS campus web site

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Silvani