MAT206   The Physiology of the Neural and Endocrine Systems   (10 credits)

Description

This lecture course aims to provide a firm foundation in understanding how the body responds rapidly (through the nervous system) and more slowly (through the endocrine system) to allow us to respond to changes in ourselves and in our interactions with our environment. It provides a firm foundation in the physiology and relevant anatomy of the nervous system and the endocrine system. The course is delivered through 12 lectures and 9 associated tutorials. Lectures deliver core knowledge and tutorials are integrated into the course to provide week by week assessment of the students assimilation of the knowledge and to assist students to work with the material. The tutorials thus give the students rapid feedback on their learning objectives and their ability to understand the information that they have been given in the lectures. Additionally students are assigned an essay worth 10% of the credits which will require them to do in depth reading on one particular area of the nervous system or endocrine system. This essay is deliberately chosen to extend the students¿ reading beyond textbooks and to review an area of human health (such as neurodegenerative diseases or the increased incidence of diabetes) where research is ongoing.

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