PSBA010 Introduction to Neuroscience

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Hana Přikrylová Kučerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Hana Přikrylová Kučerová, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim is to deepen the studentś knowledge of coincidence of CNS diseases with various mental disorders.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to work with information about the human brain, neural correlates of the human consciousness and personality in clinical neuropsychology and neuropsychological rehabilitation towards the end. This course is designed to be used in one-semester in basic of neuroscience. The definitions, history and major schools of thought and treatment are presented first.Then, each of the major themes of the neuroscience is laid out in light of the competing schools of thought.
Syllabus
  • 1. Human brain-What is it like to be human? History and a new perspective on the role of new neurophysiological kowledges (cortical plasticity, genes and the development of neural networks, cognitive neuroimaging, evolutionary design of a neurocognitive system etc.)in the understanding of human brain.Pattering of the cerebral cortex. 2.Sensory systems. Somatosensory discimination. Auditory cortex. Determining an auditory scene.Olfaction-from sniff to percept. Mechanisms of image processing in the visual cortex. 3.Motor system. Toward a neurobiology of coordinate transformations.Representation of action. Brain mechanisms of action. Basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits with the cerebral cortex. The basal ganglia and the control of action. Brain mechanisms of praxis. 4. Attention and frontal lobes. 5.Dopamin specificity in cognitive systems. An information framework for memory representation by the hippocampus. Prefrontal cortex. 6.Cranial nerves. 7.Autonomic nerves.8.RF-system. 9.Functional specialization of t
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Neurologie pro humanitní obory; Miroslav Orel; Grada 2023
  • Gray's Anatomy for Students Autor Richard L. Drake, A. Wayne Vogl, Adam W. M. Mitchell; Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2023
  • Základy neurověd 3. aktualizované vydání; Autor: Jaromír Mysliveček; Nakladatel: Triton; EAN: 9788076840072
  • Neuroscience; Oxford University Press; 2018
    not specified
  • DIAMANT, Jiří Jindřich and Lubomír VAŠINA. Kapitoly z neuropsychologie. Vyd. 2. přeprac. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 212 s. ISBN 8021017392. info
  • KUKLETA, Miloslav and Alexandra ŠULCOVÁ. Texty k přednáškám z neurověd. Brno: Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1996, 43 s. info
  • DUBOVÝ, Petr. Struktura a spoje nervové soustavy v obrazech a schématech. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 112 s. ISBN 80-210-0866-0. info
Teaching methods
Lecture (one hour per week),ELF, seminar (one hour per week)and analysis model of the human brain
Assessment methods
Written exam (test)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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