13-Mar-2013, 10:10 AM
Wouldn't it be great if some of our teammates with bio-sciences or med-school training could, for starters, and for beginners, create a 5-part crash-course on neurobiology with 10-minute videos (or 500-word articles) on the following?
(i) Hunger, homeostasis and the hypothalamus
(ii) Going places, gaits and ganglia
(iii) Sight, sound and sensory transduction (retina and/or cochlea)
(iv) Cellular zoom-in : Somas, synapses and spike-trains
(v) Behavioral zoom-out : Neural plasticity, neuropathies and neuroses
In each 'lecture', use under 10 slides. Some rules-of-thumb for content selection : Medical images rather than 'textbook figures', 'hands-on' view of neuroscience rather than 'brain-in-a-vat' view (this influenced chapter headings as you can see), self-contained rather than riddled with reading recommendations.
What say? Would you choose a different layout of topics here? Or stepping back, how would you design such a course for general biology to start with?
(i) Hunger, homeostasis and the hypothalamus
(ii) Going places, gaits and ganglia
(iii) Sight, sound and sensory transduction (retina and/or cochlea)
(iv) Cellular zoom-in : Somas, synapses and spike-trains
(v) Behavioral zoom-out : Neural plasticity, neuropathies and neuroses
In each 'lecture', use under 10 slides. Some rules-of-thumb for content selection : Medical images rather than 'textbook figures', 'hands-on' view of neuroscience rather than 'brain-in-a-vat' view (this influenced chapter headings as you can see), self-contained rather than riddled with reading recommendations.
What say? Would you choose a different layout of topics here? Or stepping back, how would you design such a course for general biology to start with?