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Course Outline:
Unit 1: Introduction to the Nervous System†
L1.1: Basic Organization of CNS & PNS
L1.2: Simple Neural Circuits (VOR, stretch)
L1.3: Electrical Signals in Cells , Action Potential
L1.4: Resting Potential of Neuron Membranes
L1.5: Nernst Equation
Unit 2: Chemical Basis of Electrical Signals†
L2.1: TIC and DOC
L2.2: Time & Space in Propagating Signals
L2.3: Ion Channels
L2.4: Post-synaptic Receptors
L2.5: Neurotransmitters and Pathology
Unit 3: Models of Biological Conductors†
L3.1: Electrical Variables in Cells
L3.2: Core Conductor Model
L3.3: Observations from Action Potentials
L3.4: Derivation of the Cable Model
L3.5: Time-dependent Solutions
Unit 4: The Hodgkin-Huxley Model†
L4.1: Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley
L4.2: Ionic Conductances
L4.3: Derivation of the Hodgkin-Huxley Equation
L4.4: Insights from Hodgkin-Huxley
L4.5: Further insights from Hodgkin-Huxley
Unit 5: Applications of Bioelectricity†
L5.2: Epilepsy
L5.3: Drug Addiction
L5.4: Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
L5.5: Optogenetics
Unit 6: Numerical Methods†
L6.1: Discrete-Time Solutions to Continuous-Time Problems
L6.2: Euler Method
L6.3: Runge-Kutta Method
L6.4: Solving Hodgkin-Huxley
L6.5: 4th Order Runge-Kutta HH Solution in Python
Unit 7: Practicum†
L7.1: Analog Front End
L7.2: Filtering
L7.3: Analog-to-Digital Conversion
L7.4: Full System
L7.5: Bioelectric Prosthesis Control
References†
Health Brain
- The neuroplasticity of the brain ensures that you will either enhance the mind, or the brain will shrink and your lack of interest and reduced efforts will decrease your skills and ability.
- Thinking expands the brain and supports its function, so this potent tool significantly improves the brain and opens new pathways in the mind
- Talking supports the development and growth of the brain, so intellectual conversations strengthen and stretch this organ and boost its function.