Materials
9/30 Introduction to the recording equipment
Handout and homework
Electronics refresher
10/7 Resting membrane potential
Pre-lab reading "Membrane potential and the passive electrical properties of the neuron", Chapter 6 in Principles of Neural Science 5th Ed. by Kandel et al. QP355 section (Sherman Fairchild library). If the 5th edition is not available, read the equivalent chapter in an earlier edition or in one of the other similar large neuroscience textbooks.
Handout and homework
Class results 2020
Class results 2017 - 2019
10/14 Action potentials in the earthworm
Pre-lab reading "Propagated signaling: the action potential", Chapter 7 in Principles of Neural Science 5th Ed. by Kandel et al. QP355 section (Sherman Fairchild library). If the 5th edition is not available, read the equivalent chapter in an earlier edition or in one of the other large neuroscience textbooks.
Handout and homework
Conduction velocity results
10/21 Extracellular recording in cockroaches, spike sorting
Cockroach leg handout
Nervous system slides handout
10/28 Mammalian neuroanatomy (sheep brain dissection, Allen Brain Atlas)
Pre-lab reading "The organization of the central nervous system", Chapter 15 in Principles of Neural Science 5th Ed. by Kandel et al. QP355 section (Sherman Fairchild library). If the 5th edition is not available, read the equivalent chapter in an earlier edition or in one of the other large neuroscience textbooks.
Peters' glossary of neuroanatomical terms
Sheep brain handout and homework
Allen Brain Atlas handout
11/4 Brain slides, Allen Brain Observatory
Pre-lab reading "Principles of extracellular recording" by M. Heinricher, Chapter 2 in Microelectrode Recordings in Movement Disorder Surgery Ed. Israel and Burchiel
Handout and homework
Hubel and Wiesel 1959