C7185 Neurochemistry

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Omar Šerý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Omar Šerý, Ph.D.
Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites
Bi3030
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Lectures are focused on history of neural sciences, development of the brain, the brain anatomy, functional anatomy of the brain and molecular psychiatry. Methods of brain research like neuroimagining methods, iontophoresis, association studies etc. are mentioned. Most important psychiatric diseases are discussed from point of view of genetics and molecular biology.
Syllabus
  • 1. History of neurobiology: histology, physiology, pharmacology, functional neuroanatomy, phrenology, genetics, molecular psychiatry 2. Development of the brain: neural plate, embryonic induction, BMP, stereotropism-resonance, growth cone 3. Neuron, nervous system, anatomy of CNS: neuron, glial cells, CNS, peripheral nervous system, brain, limbic system 4. Functional neuroanatomy: functional asymmetry of hemispheres, Wernicke center, Broca center, Brodmann, Penfield, Ojeman, Posner, motivation, James Papez, emotion 5. Methods in the brain research: neuroimagining methods, CT, MRI, SPECT, PET, EEG, iontophoresis, molecular psychiatry 6. Memory: psychological view on memory, Penfields experiments, patient of Brenda Miller, hippocampus, amygdala, experiments on Aplysia, Kandel and Nobel price 7. Molecular psychiatry: schizophrenia, symptoms, simplex, paranoid, hebefrenic, catatonic, dopamine hypothesis, neurodevelopmental hypothesis, autoimmune hypothesis, theory of silencing lesion, genetics of schizophrenia, affective diseases, classification of affective diseases, manic episode, depressive episode, factors, monoamine hypothesis, gabaergic hypothesis 8. Molecular psychiatry: alcoholism, dispositions to the alcoholism, social factors, psychobiologic factors, genetics of alcoholism, molecular studies of alcoholism our results of studies of genetics of alcoholism, ADHD, symptoms, neurobiology, our results of studies of genetics of ADHD 9. Molecular psychiatry: Alzheimer disease, Alois Alzheimer, incidence of Alzheimer disease, risk factors, senile plak, symptoms, treatment, sexual differentiation of the brain, testosterone, estrogens, maskulinization of the brain, protective hypothesis, alfa-fetoprotein, transsexuality, research of Schwaab, homosexuality, research of Hamer, nature-nurture?
Literature
  • KOUKOLÍK, František. Lidský mozek :funkční systémy : norma a poruchy. 2., aktualiz. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2002, 451 s. ISBN 80-7178-632-2. info
  • RABOCH, Jiří and Petr ZVOLSKÝ. Psychiatrie. 1st ed. Praha: Galén, 2002, 622 pp. ISBN 80-7262-140-8. info
  • FIŠAR, Zdeněk. Vybrané kapitoly z biologické psychiatrie. Edited by Roman Jirák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2001, 315 s. ISBN 8024700611. info
  • Principles of neural science. Edited by Eric R. Kandel - James H. Schwartz - Thomas M. Jessell. 3rd ed. East Norwalk: Appleton and Lange, 1991, xliv, 1135. ISBN 0-8385-8034-3. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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