She teaches the second module of 101A. She precisely follows the book which makes it quite easy to study. But if you want to know something in more detail, she'll most likely won't know the answer. She explains material quite well too. Some things I will never forget due to her funny class demonstrations!

I took Dr. White for NS m101a, and I thought she was a fine lecturer, albeit not the most organized one. I kind of thought she lectured all over the place, and when it came time for the exam, she had very poorly written test questions. I actually did a lot better on her test than I had thought. I think your best bet for test studying is read the book, and make sure to memorize every pathway she talks about during lecture.

Someone please rescue the way she appears in her photo above. She looks way more respectable than that.

Dr. White is a very nice lady, and she has genuine effort in making her lectures interesting / alive. However, she reeks like funasushi as a test author.

Everyone who has taken and passed LS 1 and 2 should be rocking her module (she teaches the second out of three in Neuro M101A), since is it only muscle physiology, which isn't that hard of a topic, but the way that her test is written will make your score suffer.

Anyway, if she's teaching that module (as she has done virtually every year), just be careful with the details. In any neuroscience class, by the way, it is highly advised that you keep up with the reading. Neuroscience is a very challenging major; you want to rise above, if you plan on venturing into it.

She is a nice lady, and I gave her a nice evaluation on the sheets handed out at the end of her module. BUT after taking her midterm, I'd have to say she was very tricky on it. Some questions were designed to confuse the student.

For example: 1a afferents in the muscle spindle release glutamate to excite alpha neurons, which then release Acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction to make the muscle move. The logical progression would, hence, be: spindle - 1a afferent - glutamate - alpha motor neuron - ACh - neuromuscular junction - muscle.

BUT what happens is she misses out purposely on the "alpha motor neuron - Ach - neuromuscular junction" and skips right to the motion of the muscle. Her fill in the blanks paragraph would go like: special sensors in the muscle called _____ release _____ which make the muscle move.

Also, there were question on the exam that were more concerned about History, and not Neuroscience. For example: Penfield, along with Sherrington, stimulated which type of cells?

Anyway-- she is a decent lecturer, but a bad exam-writer. To be honest, her module is not very hard. It shouldn't be. Her exam makes up for it.