Gross and Microscopic Anatomy of the Nervous System
Teaching hours and weekly schedule
Co-ordinators
- Maria Panayotacopoulou
Professor of Neurobiology, 1st Psychiatric Clinic, Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Anastasia Tsingotjidou
Assistant Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Dimitris Mytilinaios
MD, PhD, Medical Examiner, Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Description:
This is an intensive three-week course focused on neuroanatomy that includes lectures and laboratory sessions. All material will focus primarily on learning the structure of the nervous system with a related focus on function for general neuroscientists. Special attention will be given to chemical neuroanatomy in order to identify and describe the neurotransmitter systems of the brain and their connections. The goal of this intensive course is that students become well-versed in the structure and function of the nervous system in health and disease. Hands-on laboratory sessions will allow students to learn through direct experience.
Course Overview
- Major topographical features of the brain
- Describe the major anatomical subdivisions and functions of cerebral cortical systems
- Major interrelationships between primary brain structures
- Localize and identify brainstem nuclei
- Localize and identify brainstem tracts
- Localize and identify major somatomotor systems
- Localize and identify major somatosensory systems
- Localize and identify central sensory systems (visual, auditory and vestibular pathways)
- Localize and understand cranial nerves
- Understand and localize hypothalamic subnuclei and autonomic systems
- Understand and localize the limbic system and diencephalon
- Understand and localize the basal ganglia
- Localize and identify the blood supply of the brain, the ventricular system and meninges
- Understand the basic immunohistochemical methodology that permits the localization of neurons on the basis of their neurotransmitter expression
- Understand the basic concept of in situ hybridization for the study of gene expression in chemically identified neurons that permits the molecular investigation of the nervous system in health and disease.
Skills & Learning Outcomes
Interdisciplinary study of the nervous system, with the overarching theme that nervous system disorders can be understood in terms of neuroanatomical mechanisms. The course covers general principles of the development, connectivity, neurotransmitter and receptor systems, blood supply, central nuclei and tracts of the central nervous system.
- Describe and identify the components of the nervous system and the sensory organs.
- Identify the structures of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system.
- Describe the relationship of the structure of the nervous system to its functions: movement, sensory systems- basic functions of a living organism.
- Describe the relationship of the structure of the nervous system to its functions: movement, sensory systems- basic functions of a living organism.
- Describe and identify the structure and functions of the autonomic nervous system and the cranial nerves.
- Relate the chemical and molecular anatomy of the nervous system to clinical syndromes and diseases.
Titles of lectures and names of the lecturers
A/A | Gross and Microscopic Anatomy of the Nervous System | Lecturer |
1 | White matter Tractography | Foteini Christidis |
2 | Topographic anatomy of the cerebral cortex-functional mapping | D.Mytilineos |
3 | Functional Neuroanatomy of Cognition | N. Foroglou |
4 | Structures and Mechanisms of Language | C. Potagas |
5 | Hypothalamus and the pituitary gland | M. Panayotacopoulou |
6 | Structure and function of the limbic system | K.Tsamis |
7 | Brain Stem and Cerebellum | D. Mytilinaios |
8 | Thalamus | D. Mytilinaios |
9 | Basal Ganglia | M. Xilouri |
10 | Spinal Cord and pathways (+ autonomic NS) | A.Tsingotjidou |
11 | Hearing and balance | E. Anagnostou |
12 | Chemical and Molecular Neuroanatomy/ Electron Microscopy | M.Panayotacopoulou, M. Chrysanthou |
13 | Vision and Visual Cortex (+ plasticity) | E. Skaliora |
14 | Microscopic Anatomy of the Human brain | M. Panayotacopoulou, M.Chrysanthou |
15 | Gross and Microscopic Anatomy of the rodent brain | A. Polysidi/ M.Xilouri |
16 | Comparative Neuroanatomy (pig, sheep, rodents) | C. Bekiari/A.Tsingotjidou |
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