Neural Plasticity, Learning and Memory
How experience changes synapses and circuits to store memories.
NEUR-430 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Neuroscience
Course content
- 1Types of learning and memoryComing
- 2Hebbian plasticityComing
- 3Long-term potentiationComing
- 4Long-term depressionComing
- 5Molecular memory: kinases and gene expressionComing
- 6Structural plasticity and dendritic spinesComing
- 7The hippocampus and declarative memoryComing
- 8Procedural memory and the striatumComing
- 9Fear conditioningComing
- 10Memory consolidation and sleepComing
- 11Plasticity after injuryComing
- 12Plasticity research case studyComing
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How experience changes synapses and circuits to store memories.
Part of the Science stream, typically taken in year 4.