The Neuroscience Seminar, Wofford College

NEUS321 - Neuroscience Seminar - Fall 2009
Dr. Dave Pittman ~ Wednesdays ~ 12:30 - 1:50 PM ~ RMSC 221

CLASS SYLLABUS ~ LITERATURE RESOURCES

Date:	Topic / Perspective:	Reading:	Primary Discussant:
9/9	Introductory Session	None - Bring ideas for topics.	Dr. Pittman
9/16	Addiction / Systems-Level	Decision making, impulse control and loss of willpower to resist drugs: a neurocognitive perspective.	Dr. Pittman
9/23	Addiction / Physiological-Level	Roles of the Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala in the Acquisition and Expression of Ethanol-Conditioned Behavior in Mice	Dr. Pittman
9/30	*Wofford College ~ Program in Neuroscience* Research	Binge-type eating induced by limited access in rats does not require energy restriction on the previous day.	Dr. Davis
10/7	Addiction / Molecular-Level	Plasticity of reward neurocircuitry and the ‘dark side’ of drug addiction. Nucleus Accumbens Long-Term Depression and the Expression of Behavioral sensitization. ~ Supplemental Information for Brebner, et al.	Dr. Reid
10/14	Pain / Systems-Level	An endocannabinoid mechanism for stress-induced analgesia	Jessie Sahms
10/21	Pain / Physiological-Level	Endothelin-B receptor activation triggers an endogenous analgesic cascade at sites of peripheral injury.	Andy Steadman
10/28	*Wofford College ~ Program in Neuroscience* Research	Internalization of Stimulus Control during Skill Learning: An Animal Model Excerpts from textbook on Sensorimotor Transformation	Dr. Reid
11/4	Antisocial Behavior / Molecular -Level	From Genes to Brain to Antisocial Behavior	Katherine Kenyon
11/11	Antisocial Behavior / Physiological-Level	Volume reduction in prefrontal gray matter in unsuccessful criminal psychopaths. Limbic abnormalities in affective processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.	Sarah Beth Hughes
11/18	*Wofford College ~ Program in Neuroscience* Research	Stimulation of lateral hypothalamic kainate receptors selectively elicits feeding behavior.	Dr. Hettes
12/2	Spinal Cord Regeneration / Physiological-Level	Repair of spinal cord injury: ripples of an incoming tide, or how I spent my first 40 years in research.	Cally Patterson
12/9	Spinal Cord Regeneration / Molecular -Level	Regeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic axons after transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells and fibroblasts prevents fibrotic scar formation at the lesion site.	Dr. Pittman

Click below to e-mail the faculty associated with the Program in Neuroscience:
Dr. Kara Bopp	Dr. G.R. Davis	Dr. Stacey Hettes	Dr. John Moeller	Dr. Dave Pittman	Dr. Alliston Reid

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Here is a link to the Program in Neuroscience requirements.
Participation in two semesters of the neuroscience seminar is required for completion of the program.

Here is a list of the topics discussed in previous seminars: