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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Mestrado Universitario en Neurociencia (Plan 2011) |
 Subjects |
| Evolución do Sistema Nervioso |
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| Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Evolución do Sistema Nervioso | Code | 610490022 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optativa | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction. |
1.Concept of evolution. 2.Considerations about evolution: phylogeny, ontogeny, analogy, homology. 3.Levels of organization. Design patterns in animals. |
| Evolution of the nervous system: from invertebrates to vertebrates. |
4.Evolution of neurons. 5.Models of nervous systems. 6.Evolutionary changes of the basic structural units of the central nervous system. 7.Evolutionary changes of the functional circuits of the nervous system in vertebrates. |
| Evolution of sensory organs: from invertebrates to vertebrates. |
8.Photoreception: Evolution of the visual system. 9.Chemoreception: Evolution of taste and olfactory systems. 10.Mechanoreception: Evolution of the ear and lateral line |
| Practicals | Students will observe under the microscope histological preparations of nervous system and sense organs from different species of vertebrates and invertebrates |
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