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

11/11 Student projects: experiments

11/18 Student projects: experiments

11/25 Thanksgiving - no class

12/02 Student presentations