HCS 7372

 Neuroscience Graduate Seminar

 Limbic System and Neural Plasticity

 Tuesdays, 3 - 5:15 p.m.

NOTE: reading assignments are updated weekly
 Date  Topic Reading list
 Aug 20 Intro. to the limbic system  none
 Aug 25 Classic conceptualizations of limbic systems  Limbic 1
 Sep 1 New conceptualizations of limbic systems  Limbic 2
 Sep 8 Hippocampal neural plasticity 1: Learning & memory  Limbic 3
 Sep 15 Hippocampal neural plasticity 2: Synaptic plasticity  Limbic 4
 Sep 22 Hippocampal neural plasticity 3: Post-synaptic plasticity 1  Limbic 5
 Sep 29 Hippocampal neural plasticity 4: Post-synaptic plasticity 2  Limbic 6
 Oct 6 Hippocampal neural plasticity 5: Post-synaptic plasticity 3  Limbic 7
 Oct 13 Amygdala neural plasticity 1: Kindling and epilepsy  Limbic 8
 Oct 20  SFN Meeting, Chicago  None
 Oct 27 Amygdala neural plasticity 2: Synaptic plasticity  Limbic 9
 Nov 3 Amygdala neural plasticity 3: Signalling and IEGs  Limbic 10
 Nov 10  Prefrontal cortex plasticity 1: Addiction  Limbic 11
 Nov 17  Prefrontal cortex plasticity 2: Damage  Limbic 12
 Nov 24   Break  No readings
 Dec 1   Prefrontal cortex plasticity 3  Limbic 14