BEHN 627/628/629 <br> Seminar: Neuroscience of Aging
1 credit per course
BEHN 627: Spring 2008; BEHN 628: Fall 2008; BEHN 629, Winter 2009
The course will be given during three subsequent semesters for a total of 3 credits (1 credits/semester). At the end of each semester the students taking the course for credit will be required to submit a 5-page assay on a topic covered that semester by the last day of class (December 3, 2008 for Fall Semester). The grading will be pass/fail. There will be a separate registration for each term. Trainees on the T32 Neuroscience of Aging Training Grant will be required to take all three semesters (BEHN627, 628, and 629) of this course. Students and postdoctoral fellows outside the NIA T32 training grant will be allowed to take this course and to take only one or two of the three semesters. This will be a team-taught survey course that includes 1 introductory module on concepts in aging research, and aging of non-CNS systems, as well as modules on the neuroscience of aging of sensory, motor, and cognitive systems as well as neurodegenerative diseases. Each module will examine the topic from the molecular to the human level of analysis. All lectures for the Fall 2008 semester will be held Wednesdays from 4-5 pm in MRB735. All students are expected to read the assigned paper prior to the lecture.
