Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Anatomy of the Central Nervous System
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3660-22-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 01/08/2022

Date and time	24.08.2022, at: 09:00 - 25.08.2022, at: 17:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	5,040.00 kr.
Lecturers	Martin Fredensborg Rath
ECTS credits	2.00

Contact person	Martin Fredensborg Rath E-mail address: mrath@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Identify and describe macroscopic regions of the central nervous system 2. Identify cellular components of the central nervous system 3. Describe the anatomy of sensory, motor, neuroendocrine and limbic systems 4. Describe the development of the central nervous system 5. Demonstrate and identify neuroanatomical structures in dissected brains and tissue sections Content Lectures will cover the following aspects of mammalian neuroanatomy with focus on the human brain and laboratory rodents: 1) General organization and surface anatomy of the brain 2) Cellular components of the nervous system 3) Spinal cord and spinal nerves 4) Brain stem and cranial nerves 5) Somatosensory system: somatosensory pathways, thalamus and internal capsule 6) Visual system 7) Motor system: motor pathways, basal ganglia and cerebellum 8) Neuroendocrine system: hypothalamus and epithalamus 9) Limbic system: hippocampus, amygdala and basal forebrain 10) Supporting structures of the brain: ventricular system, meninges and blood supply 11) Stereotaxic methods and atlases Hands-on exercises will include 1) Dissection of the rodent brain 2) Demonstration of the human brain in wet preparations 3) Demonstration of the human brain in Mulligan sections 4) Microscopy of brain sections Literature Vanderah TW (2019) Nolte's Essentials of the Human Brain, 2nd edition, Elsevier ISBN: 9780323529310 Participants should have read and be familiar with the contents of the textbook before course start. Traditionally, learning the anatomical nomenclature and anatomical directions is time consuming; therefore, the ECTS credits of the course reflect additional time for preparation. Participants The target group is primarily PhD-students in Neuroscience, but the course may also be beneficial for students in other graduate programmes. Please note that medical doctors should regard this course as repetition of the neuroanaomy course for medical students with additional focus on the rodent brain, whereas PhD students with a master's in neuroscience (from UCPH) should expect some degree of repetition of their previous course, including all the hands-on practicals, with a generally expanded curriculum. The course is very focused on the anatomy of the central nervous system - it does not cover cell biology, including functions of glial cells, and neurophysiology, neither systems neurophysiology nor cellular neurphysiology. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: - Neuroscience - In Vivo Pharmacology and Experimental Animals - Medical and Molecular Imaging Language English Form Lectures and hands-on exercises Course director Martin Fredensborg Rath, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, mrath@sund.ku.dk Teachers Martin Fredensborg Rath, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Morten Møller, Professor Emeritus, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Dates 24 - 25 August 2022 Course location Panum Institute 15.2.10. Registration Please register before 1 August 2022 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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