Schedule for Computational Neuroscience course

MEDS 378/BME 316

 
Topics           Exercises/Computer Work
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Week 1

Electrical circuits,      Set up personal copy of
Nernst equation          Genesis on husky.uchc.edu
  GENESIS book Chap. 3
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Week 2

GENESIS book Chapter 4    GENESIS book Chapter 4 

Hodgkin-Huxley model     Exercises 1-4

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Week 3

GENESIS book Chapter 4    GENESIS book Chapter 4

Hodgkin-Huxley model     Exercises 5-9
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Week 4

GENESIS book Chapter 6     GENESIS book Chapter 6
Temporal interactions of PSPs Exercises 1-5
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Week 5

Cable theory, passive dendrites  GENESIS book Chapter 5
   Exercises 1-3
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Week 6

Cable theory             GENESIS book Chapter 5 

passive & active dendrites       Exercises 4-7

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Week 7

Model of DCN fusiform cell    Demonstration of the cell model
(Kim et al., 1994, JASA 96: 1501-1514)        
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Week 8

Present. of students'     Present. of students'
simulation proposals     simulation proposals
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Deadline for submission of the written proposal of the simulation
project. It should include a title, hypothesis, specific aims and
a brief description of the planned simulation;
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Week 9

GENESIS Chap. 8            GENESIS Chapter 8

Central pattern generator       Exercises

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Week 10

GENESIS Chap. 12-18      GENESIS Chapters 12-18
GENESIS methods           Exercises
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Week 11

Koch & Segev Chapter 10 GENESIS Chapters 12-18
"Modeling small networks" Exercises

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Week 12

Koch & Segev Chapter 11   GENESIS Chapters 12-18
"Spatial and temporal processing Exercises
in central auditory networks"

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Week 13

Thanksgiving recess

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Week 14

Prelim. Presentations of Proj.   Prelim. Presentations of Proj.
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Week 15

Prelim. Presentations of Proj.     Prelim. Presentations of Proj.
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Week 16
Final presentations and submission of the written 

report of the simulation project; 
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Note: The grade of the course will be based on the simulation
project (75%) and class participation including computer
exercises (25%).
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