- Docente: Cristiano Bombardi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 0487)
Learning outcomes
The course provide the structural features of the Nervous System and the molecular mechanisms to understand animal behaviour.
Course contents
Introduction, anatomical features of the Nervous System, neuron and neuroglia, synapses, neurotransmitters, neuroactive peptides, neurotransmitter receptors, synaptic plasticity, synaptic integration, regulation of synaptic connections, regulatort systems, brain stem and behaviour, brain stem and consciousness, arousal and homeostasis, sleep, emotional behaviour, motivational states, reward, learning and memory.
Readings/Bibliography
E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, T. M. Jessell, Principi di Neuroscienze (a cura di V. Perri e G. Spidalieri). Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano.
L.R. Squire, F.E. Bloom, S.K. McConnell, J.L. Roberts, N.C. Spitzer, M.J. Zigmond, Fundamental Neuroscience, second edition, Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.
Course material.
Teaching methods
Lectures and laboratory practicals.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Projector, PC, laboratory, microscope.
Office hours
See the website of Cristiano Bombardi