Announcements
SS120 June 29, 2020
Please read! Click here for
information regarding NIA2 Software and lab requirements.
NIA2 is available on the virtual labs.
Please logon to your CANVAS account for specific instructions.
Important Class Information

Readings
Summer Session Class 1 Reading
Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
Neuron Doctrine
Prototypical Neuron
Classification Schemes
Glia
Summer Session Class 2 Reading
Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
Movement of Ions
Ionic Basis of the Resting Potential
Fluids and Membranes
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Potentials
Summer Session Class 3 and 4 Readings
Chapter 4 The Action Potential
Synaptic Integration
Properties of the Action Potential
Theory behind the Action Potential
Conduction of the Action Potential
Summer Session Class 5 and 6 Readings
Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
Synapses and Synaptic Transmission
Receptors
Integration
Lambda and the length constant
Ligand (transmitter) gated channels
Summer Session Class 7 and 8 Readings
Chapter 6 Neurotransmitter Systems
Synthesis and Localization of Neurotransmitters
NMJ
Summer Session Class 9 and 10 Readings
Chapter 8 The Chemical Senses
Taste
G-Protein Coupled Receptors
Olfaction
Required and Recommended

- Required: Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain required textbook (4th Edition)
- Companion Website for Purves 5e Neuroscience textbook (great resource with animations)
- Neuroscience Purves, et al (old, but a great additional textbook resource)
- Neuroscience Online and Open Source Textbook (animations and lectures by Dr. John Byrne University of Texas Health)
NIA2 Labs
Please Read - ONLINE information for COGS107a
Week 1 Assignments
Install NIA2 (for instructions please logon to CANVAS).
Worksheet 1: Introduction to NIA
Week 2 Assignments
Worksheet 2: The Membrane Potential
Worksheet 3: The Equilibrium Potential
Week 3 Assignment
Lab 4: (Bluebook) The Na Action Potential
Week 4 Assignment
Worksheet 5: Threshold, To Fire or Not to Fire
Week 5 Assignment
Lab 6: (Bluebook) The Unmyelinated Axon
Extra Credit Assignment due at Final Exam deadline
Neurons In Action 2

