06551 - Neurophysiology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Sandra Guidi
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: BIO/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)

Learning outcomes

The student acquires the knowledge of the functional organization of the nervous system, the mechanisms underlying synaptic transmission, the action of sensory receptors, the reflex motor functions, the control of voluntary movement, the autonomic nervous functions .

Course contents

1) Physiology of the Central and Autonomic nervous system

2) Physiology of perception 

3) Motor control

4) Spinal reflexes

5) Sight and hearing


Readings/Bibliography

Rhoades, Pflanzer, "Human Physiology" Ed. Piccin

Teaching methods

Lectures that will cover the program of the course.

Assessment methods

Students must sit an oral exam

Teaching tools

Teaching tools used for lectures: video projector, PC and overhead projector

Office hours

See the website of Sandra Guidi