I've seen a lot of bad reviews for Professor Adhikari, but I have never had a more engaging and caring professor. Even though lectures were online for half of the quarter, I would always look forward to watching his lectures, as his personality and way of teaching made it fun to learn the content. His class was the only class that I wanted to go to in person and it proved very helpful. He kept the online option open even when classes in person opened up, which gave lots of people freedom to choose which style they liked more. He made sure that the class taken online would balance out the class taken in person, which is something I didn't get the privilege of having for my other classes.

The content is indeed dense, which may contribute to why Professor Adhikari has a low rating, but it is just the nature of the class, and he does his best to cover everything in detail and tie them together.

His quizzes and tests are also extremely fair. There was not one question on the test that we had not covered in class. As long as you review his slides and take good notes, you will succeed in this class. It's a lot of memorization and hard work if you take it in person, and a lot of note-taking online.

Super straightforward class. Watch lecture, answer questions. Nothing unexpected. It might be boring to some so you need some self discipline to pay attention. I got an A without too much effort. 9/10 class and I do recommend this professor.

I recommend taking this class with a lighter workload since it requires a lot of studying. Adhikari is probably the best professor for this course. Your grade is entirely exam-based: 2 non-cumulative midterms and 1 cumulative final, with 2 double-sided cheat sheets allowed (typed or handwritten). Attendance isn’t mandatory, and his recorded COVID lectures that he posts online are more detailed than his in-person lectures. I did not use the textbook.

I had no recent biology/neuroscience background, while most of my classmates were pre-med or psychobio majors. He covers the basics but moves through them quickly. The exams can be tricky; I struggled on the first midterm despite feeling confident. I highly recommend putting as much of the slides as possible on your cheat sheets and anything he says during lecture since those details show up on exams.

Although this class is difficult, I enjoyed taking it with Adhikari and learning more about neuroscience with him!

He is a great professor. He is one of the most understanding and organized professors I have ever had. Ignore the negative comments. He is great!

For every exam you get 4 pages of cheat sheets (yay). I would feel super confident during the exams and thought I was doing great...I was wrong. THe questions are a little tricky so you have to pay A LOT of attention to not make silly mistakes like me.

it was hard, would not take again.

TL;DR, if you need to take this class/a neuroscience class, do it with Professor Adhikari. This class is pretty straightforward, 3 exams (non-cumulative) and weekly, online, open-note 6-question quizzes. For the exams, he allows for 2 front and back cheat sheets that can be written or typed, which I thought was nice. Discussion sections are helpful, but not mandatory, and I also never read the textbook. I went to lecture at the start of class, but he also provides recorded lectures from Covid which have the same information. Honestly, I found the online lectures better than the in-person lectures because I could pause and take time to type my notes. The main thing about this class is that there is SO MUCH information, so you really need to write everything down and make sure you understand the concepts of each lecture. Make sure you know your way around your cheat sheet and study beforehand; I personally wouldn't solely rely on the cheat sheet. Overall, pretty information dense but straightforward class, and Professor Adhikari is a good and funny lecturer.

lots of materal. three exams and each have two pages of cheat sheets and everyone has to put the fonts really really small (like I did font 6 and three columns per page and the pages were narrow magins) so we can fit all the material that is on the exam. it is a LOT

He's a cool guy and very funny, but I felt like it was kind of hard to talk to him. I also didn't put as much effort into this class as I should've. I highly recommend copying literally every word this man says and write it down. I also recommend writing literally EVERYTHING on your cheat sheet and studying it. Discussions were useful according to some of my friends, but I didn't go to any so I can't really vouch for that. Scheme: MT 1 & 2: 46.2%, Final: 23.8%, Quizzes: 30%. Nothing crazy, but really hard to make a comeback after screwing up even one category. I would take again with him, though.

Although he is a great lecturer and I appreciated the way that concepts were explained, I feel as though the professor was a bit unapproachable and his grading scheme makes it extremely hard to get an A in the course. The grading is out of a 100 point system, and each exam question is 0.7 points. The first two exams are 33 questions and the last exam is 34 questions. None of the exams are cumulative which I appreciated. With his grading scheme, you can only get 10 test questions wrong all in all (and get 100% on all the quizzes) to receive an A in the class. The first exam is WAY harder than the last two in my opinion. I got 8 questions wrong on the first and worked super hard for the second two, getting one wrong on each and barely scraping by with an A. My biggest piece of advice if you choose to take his class even with his grading scheme is to actually learn the material and to learn how to navigate your cheat sheet! You get two pages front and back of the cheat sheet but DON'T just rely on finding the information on it during the test. If you know the material and actually study it for a week before the exam, your cheat sheet will be a safety blanket and something you can check answers with and that is how I improved in the class and did well on the last two exams, since on the first exam when I did worse I mainly relied on my cheat sheet and didn't thoroughly review the concepts enough.

This class is up to what you feel you'll succeed with- a professor who isn't very accommodating, no curve and no extra credit with a tough grading scheme, but teaches concepts very well and you'll have minimal work to do other than the exams.