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Explain how excitable cells produce a travelling impulse, how synapses turn that impulse into excitation or inhibition, and how sensory, motor, and plastic circuits use those synapses to represent the world, to move the body, and to store a change. Disorders are read as failures of those mechanisms, not as a treatment manual.

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Core Learning Outcomes & Competencies

Upon mastery of this comprehensive syllabus, students and researchers are expected to:

✓ State the neuron doctrine and assign astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, and microglia their roles in signalling, myelin, or barrier maintenance.

✓ Predict the resting potential from potassium permeability, and explain how voltage-gated sodium and potassium currents produce an all-or-none impulse that normally travels in one direction.

✓ Order chemical synaptic transmission from calcium entry to termination, and show how synaptic currents at the axon initial segment decide whether a spike fires.

✓ Compare ionotropic and metabotropic receptors for the major transmitters, including the magnesium block of the NMDA receptor, and state how each transmitter action is ended.

✓ Trace a spinal reflex and state the computation associated with brainstem, cerebellum, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal ganglia, and cerebral cortex, including autonomic transmitters at ganglia and at targets.

✓ Explain transduction and the central path for touch and pain, for vision, and for hearing and balance.

✓ Distinguish spinal pattern, brainstem posture, cortical command, cerebellar error correction, and basal-ganglia action selection, and separate upper from lower motor neuron failure.

✓ Explain activity-dependent refinement of connections, hippocampal long-term potentiation as coincidence detection, and what medial temporal damage does to declarative memory.

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