L&M Faculty at UCLA
Blair, Ted
Klein, Marc
L&M Labs in South Cal
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2003 Course
DESCRIPTION:
This graduate course covers molecular, cellular, circuit, systems, neuroanatomy, theory and models of learning and memory. The cross disciplinary focus on learning and memory in this course is intended to present an integrative view of the subject that emphasizes emerging findings that take advantage of novel groundbreaking models.
The two special events organized in connection with this course ( meet-the-expert and the end-course-symposium) are intended to expose graduate students to emerging concepts from leading figures in the field of learning and memory.
COURSE NUMBERS:
This course is being offered by the Departments of Neurobiology (M200G), the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (M220) and by the Department of Psychology (M208).
SCHEDULE:
The Course meets once a year (SPRING), from 11:00 am - 1:00 PM , Tuesdays and Thursdays. In 2003 the course will start on Tuesday, April 1 and will run through Thursday, June 5. The course will meet in the Gonda Building Conference room 3303 (third floor). The exception to this will be the talks on May 8th by Edvard Moser. His first talk will be from 11:00AM to 1:00 PM in the first floor Gonda Building Conference room. His second talk will also be on May 8th and it will be held in the NPI auditorium at 4:00 PM.
EXAMS/REVIEWS:
There will be a take home final exam (handed in on 6/05/2003-due 6/10/2003). The final should be sent by e-mail to silvaa@ucla.edu
In addition, students will also choose between writing either a review or a grant proposal (written exams due in class on 5/29/2003):
The review and grant should not be more than 5 pages (single spaced not including references). Either manuscript should stress novel and creative ideas about the material presented in class. The review should not be a simple rewrite of published reviews. It should instead expand on a new insight or perspective in one of the themes presented in class.
The grant proposal should focus on the next step of one of the subjects presented in class. It should include a summary with an outline of specific aims of the experiments proposed, an introduction with the background for the experimental plan, and a section with a summary of the experiments proposed (they should be feasible experiments based on published methods).
CHAIRS: Fanselow, Glanzman and Silva
LECTURES AND READINGS : To download the PDFs in the Required Reading list below, please click on each article's name. PLEASE BE PATIENT DOWNLOADING THE PDFs. Some of the PDFs are scanned old articles, and as a consequence the files are quite large, and may take longer than usual to download... Please note that it is possible to down load some of the power point files for the lectures. Simply click on the lecture titles.
Please, register for the course Symposium on Tuesday, June 3, 2003 (Click Here)
WEEK 1 of March 31
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Instructor
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Required Reading
PDFs
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Tuesday
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Krasne
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Thursday
LTP: A Primer
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Glanzman
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WEEK 2 of April 7
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Tuesday
Cellular Mechanisms of Sensitization in Aplysia: Presynaptic and postsynaptic
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Glanzman
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Thursday
Cellular Mechanisms of Classical Conditioning in Aplysia: Presynaptic and postsynaptic
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Glanzman
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WEEK 3 of April 14
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WEEK 4 of April 21
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Tuesday
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Buonomano
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Thursday
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Buonomano
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WEEK 5 of April 28
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Tuesday
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: pharmacological approaches
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Silva
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Thursday
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: Genetic lesions
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Silva
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WEEK 6 of May 5
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Tuesday
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory: Genetic enhancements
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Silva
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Thursday
Systems and Circuit Level Analysis of Learned Fear: from environment
to behavior.
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Fanselow
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WEEK 7 of May 12
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Tuesday
Special Event
Memory systems: Hippocampus
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Thursday
Systems and Circuit Level Analysis of Learned Fear: from environment
to behavior.
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Fanselow
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WEEK 8 of May 19
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Tuesday
Systems and Circuit Level Analysis of Learned Fear: from environment
to behavior.
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Fanselow
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Thursday
Frontal-temporal-striatal interactions in learning and memory retrieval
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Jentsch
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WEEK 9 of May 26
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Tuesday
Working memory and attention: Hierarchical processing across systems
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Jentsch
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Thursday
Adaptive behavior: Putting learning and memory to use (review of proposal due!)
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Jentsch
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WEEK 10 of June 2
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Tuesday
Tuesday, 6/3/2003: Special event
Biology of Learning and Memory Symposium
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Click Here for registration
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Thursday
Take-home Final Exam will be handed out to the students in the normal class time (June 5th). The exam is due on Tuesday, June 10th sent by e-mail to silvaa@mednet.ucla.edu
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Silva
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For more info on Learning and Memory at UCLA click here
For Neuroscience Links click here
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