Date |
Reading Assignment |
| 1/22 |
BRW, Chapter 1, pp. 3-20 |
1/24 |
Dodds, D. Fact or Phrenology? Scientific American, 2005.
Sacks, O. "The Last Hippie", in An Anthropologist on Mars.
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1/29 |
Chalmers, D. The New Puzzle of Consciousness, Scientific American, 2002. Gazzaniga, M., and Steven, M. Neuroscience and the Law Pinker, S. Standard Equipment (Chapter 1 from How the Mind Works, Norton & Co.) 1997 |
1/31, 2/5 |
Buss, D. Evolutionary Psychology: A new Paradigm for Psychological Science. Psychological Inquiry, 1995.Vol. 6 pp. 1-30 (focus on the first 15 pages or so). BRW, Ch. 6 |
2/7, 2/12 |
Gawande, A. Crimson Tide. The New Yorker, Feb 12 2001: 50-57 Stein, R.B., and Mushahwar, V. 2005. Reanimating limbs after injury or disease. Trends in Neurosciences, 28, pp. 518-524. Linge, F., What does it feel like to be brain damaged? Injury: 18, 1987, 322-326.
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2/14, 2/19, 2/21, 2/26 |
Krebs, C., Huttmann, K., Steinhauser, C. The forgotten brain emerges, Scientific American: 2004, pp. 40-44. Parri, R., and Crunelli, V. An astrocyte bridge from synapse to blood flow. Nature Neurosceince, 2003, Vol. 6 pp. 5-6 BRW, Chapter 2, pp. 22-34 BRW Chapter 3
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2/28 |
BRW, Chapter 4 until p. 111 Llinas, R. Calcium in synaptic transmission. Scientific
American 1982, 247, pp. 56-65. Julien, R., Principles of Drug Action (Chapter 1 from A Primer of Drug Action, 8th Ed.,Wm Freeman & Co. 1998).
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3/6 |
BRW, Chapter 4, pp.111-116 Taking Sides, Clashing views in psychological issues, 14th Ed. Brent Slife Ed, Issue 13: Is drug addiction a choice? pp. 235-251 |
3/18 (development: neurulation to neurogenesis) |
BRW, Ch. 7 (until p. 186) Sabbagh, L. (2006). The teen brain: hard at work. Scientific American Mind, v.17 pp 20-26. Erikkson, PS., Perfilieva, E., Bjork-Erikkson, T., Alborn, A-M., Nordborg, C., Peterson, DA., Gage, FH. (1998) Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nature Medicine, 4, 1313-1317 Supplementary commentary (read this if you're having trouble getting through the Erikkson paper: Gibbs, 1998, Dogma Overturned, Scientific American, pp19-20 |
3/20 (development: migration to apoptosis) |
Classic 1: Rakic, P. (1974) Neurons in rhesus monkey visual cortex: systematic relation between time of origin and eventual disposition. Science, 183, 425-427. BRW, Ch. 7 (until p. 194) |
3/25 (development: synaptic-rearrangement, learning) |
Classic 2: Wiesel, TN., Hubel, DH. (1965). Comparison of the effects of unilateral and bilateral eye closure on cortical unit responses in kittens. Journal of Neurophysiology, 28, 1029-1040. BRW, Chapter 7, pp.202-206 |
3/27 (development: aging) |
BRW, Chapter 7, pp. 210-214 |
4/1 |
BRW, Ch 5 Becker & Breedlove, Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology, pp. 22-34 (excerpt from Behavioral Endocrinology (1992), Becker, Breedlove, Crews (Eds).) |
4/3, 4/8 |
BRW, Chapter 13, p. 401-415; Gawande, The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating. The New Yorker |
4/10 |
Cacioppo, JT, Bernston, GG., Sheridan, JF, McClintock, MK. (2002). Multilevel integrative analysis of human behavior: social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches. In Foundations in Social Neuroscience MIT Press 2002 Kinsley, CH., Lambert, KG. The maternal brain. Scientific American (2005) |
4/15 |
Fisher, H., Aron, A., Brown, L. Romatic Love: An fMRI study of neural mechanism for mate choice (2005). Journal of Comparative Neurology, 493 58-62. de Vignemont F., & Singer, T. (2006). The empathic brain: How, when and why? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 435-441. Langford, DJ., Crager, SE., Shehzad, Z., Smith, SB., Levenstadt, JS., Chandra, ML., Levitin, DJ., Mogil, JS. (2006). Social modulation of pain as evidence for empathy in mice. Science, 312, 1967-1970. |
4/20 |
Sapolsky, RM. Neuroendocrinology of the stress response pp. 287-303 (excerpt from Behavioral Endocrinology (1992), Becker, Breedlove, Crews (Eds.)) Gould, E. Social isolation delays the positive effects of running on adult neurogenesis. Nature Neuroscience, 2006. |