Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502442 Medicine | OT | 2 | 2 |
2502442 Medicine | OT | 3 | 0 |
2502442 Medicine | OT | 4 | 0 |
2502442 Medicine | OT | 5 | 0 |
2502442 Medicine | OT | 6 | 0 |
There are no previous requeriments, but a basic level on psychology.
The course Cervell i conducta (Brain and behavior) is taught in the second year of the Degree of Medicine. The general objective of this topic is to offer an introductory overview of Neurosciences of behavior and mental functions: the field known as Cognitive Neuroscience. Thus, the subject explores the neural systems that mediate the normative cognitive functions and the mental alterations. The contents are based on the knowledge that the students
have achieved in previous subjects such as Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology, Pharmacology and Psychology, that now will be framed in the area of cognitive neuroscience and mental health. The course aims to serve, therefore, as a introduction, and complement at the same time, of Neurology and Psychiatry.
Contents
I. Neural organization and brain functions.
II. The brain to learn and remember.
III. Language, thought and consciousness
IV. Motivational brain
V. Neural deterioration and mental disorders
Distributive blocks
1. Introduction to cognitive neuroscience
2. Evolution of the brain.
3. Cerebral cortex: actions, perceptions and cognitions.
4. Behavioral and cognitive development. Learning
5. Records and amnesia.
6. Synaptic and molecular mechanisms of memory
7. The language brain
8. The thinking brain
9. The conscious brain
10. The sexual brain
11. The aggressive brain
12. Emotions and brain
13. Neurobiology of addictive behavior.
14. Mental disorders I
15. Mental disorders II
16. Cerebral aging and dementias.
The 'Brain and behavior' course begins lectures and one laboratory practice. The rest of the teaching content is taught and developed as online tutorials through the Virtual Campus. Presentations, scientific papers and audiovisual material used will be available in the Teaching Material Folders of the course on the Virtual Campus (Moodle). The students present, in addition, a work of interpretation and scientific discussion of works of relevant scientists in the cognitive neuroscience area.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
LAB PRACTICES (PLAB) | 2 | 0.08 | |
LECTURES (TE) | 24 | 0.96 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
ONLINE TUTORIALS (MOODLE) | 12 | 0.48 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
WORK LABOR / PERSONAL STUDY / READING OF ARTICLES / INTEREST REPORTS | 34 | 1.36 | 51 |
The system of evaluation of the acquisition of competences is organized in relation to the three modules: Theory, Laboratory Practice, Research Work.
2. The programming of the assessment activities will be according to the academic calendars established for this course.
3. Attendance and active participation in class and the correction of the exercises carried out in the theory and practice module to continuous assessment mode add up to a weight in the overall 10% grade.
4. The remaining 90% is evaluated by means of an examination with multiple choice items (35% of the final grade), another with short questions (35% of the final grade) and the oral defense of a research work
in which the student 'analyze and discussrelevant scientific work in the area of cognitive neuroscience (20% of the final grade).
5. The multiple choice test will consist of 20 questions with five response alternatives of which only one is correct, applying a correction to discount
random successes (correct - 1/4 of the errors) and digitally transforming the note.
6. The test of short questions will consist of 8 short questions.
7. It is an indispensable requirement to pass the subject by obtaining a minimum grade of 5 for each of the assessment activities.
8. Students who fail to carry out the theoretical, practical or non-evaluation tests, will be considered as Not evaluated by exhausting the rights to the matriculation of the subject.
9. The evaluation process contemplates recovery systems.To participate in the recovery test students must have been previously evaluated
in the set of assessment activities whose weight equals to a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject.
10. In the case that a student fails and their average mark is less than 5, the resulting average will be the one of the grade of the final qualification.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evaluation written through objective tests: tests of multiple choice | 35% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 49, 50, 39, 38, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 12, 17, 16, 18, 22, 20, 21, 19, 23, 48, 41, 24, 29, 26, 28, 25, 27, 31, 32, 30, 35, 34, 33, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 47, 46, 45, 44, 52, 53, 51, 5 |
Evaluation written through objective tests: tests of short questions essay | 35% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 49, 50, 39, 38, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 12, 17, 16, 18, 22, 20, 21, 19, 23, 48, 41, 24, 29, 26, 28, 25, 27, 31, 32, 30, 35, 34, 33, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 47, 46, 45, 44, 52, 53, 51, 5 |
Attendance and active participation to lectures and seminars | 10% | 1 | 0.04 | 9, 10, 51 |
Research work and oral communication | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 9, 10, 40, 42, 51 |
Specific bibliography
NR Carlson "Fisiologia de la Conducta", (8 Ed.) Barcelona: Ariel, 2005.
ER Kandel, JH Schwartz y ThM Jessell "Neurociencia y Conducta", Madrid: Prentice-Hall Spain, 2001.
MR Rosenzweig, AL Leiman y SM Breedlove, Psicobiologia, Barcelona: Ariel, 2005.
Any of the three texts is a good support for the subject and they are useful class for future doctors. For those who want to work in English, apart from the previous editions of the previous ones, the best options are:
Squire LR, Bloom FE, Spitzer NC, Du Lac S, Ghosh A and Berg D (Eds) “Fundamental Neuroscience” (3rd. Edit), New York Elsevier, 2008.
Ward J “The student’s guide to Cognitive Neuroscience”, New York: Psychology Press, 2006.
Complementary bibliography
Ch. Koch “The quest for consciousness: a neurobiological approach”, Colorado: Roberts and Co, 2004 (Ed. española. Barcelona: Ariel).
A Fernández-Teruel “Farmacología de la conducta: De los psicofármacos a las psicoterapias”, Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, 2008.
ET Rolls ET “Emotions explained”, New York: Oxford University Press., 2005.
GF Koob and ML LeMoal, “Neurobiology of addiction”, New York: Academic Press, 2005
A Tobeña“Anatomia de la agresividad humana”, Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2001.
A Tobeña “El cerebro erótico”, Barcelona: L’Esfera dels llibres, 2006.
Online resources
The above-mentioned texts have web companions with all kinds of figures and exercises to work online.