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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Mestrado Universitario en Neurociencia (Plan 2011) |
 Subjects |
| Evolution of the nervous system |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Evolution of the nervous system | Code | 610490022 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction. |
1.Concept of evolution. Theories. 2.Levels of organization. Design patterns in animals. 3.Phylogenetic relationships: homologies and analogies. |
| Evolution of the nervous system. | 4.Origin of neurons (first nervous systems). 5.Models of nervous systems. 6.Evolutionary changes of the basic structural units of the central nervous system in vertebrates. 7.Evolutionary changes of the functional circuits of the nervous system in vertebrates. |
| Evolution of sensory organs. | 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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