PHYSCI 146

Principles of Nervous System Development

Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: courses 107 (or Neuroscience 102) and 111A (or M180A). Examination of construction of vertebrate nervous system as series of integrated steps beginning with several embryonic cells and culminating as complex highly ordered system. Topics include neurulation, regionalization, neurogenesis, migration, axonal outgrowth, and synapse formation. Letter grading.

Units: 5.0
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