Listed below is our schedule of due dates for the remainder of the year.  If you miss class due to AP exams or other school-related functions, it is your responsibility to get the notes from a classmate and/or see me for help and/or to schedule a date and time to makeup the missed test.

1. NeuroCurrents article due on Tuesday, 5/5/15.  Make sure you have included appropriate citations in APA format for any text material and for any pictures.  Pictures should be free use (with modification).
2. Test on Thursday, 5/7/15, on all information covered this year.  Extra emphasis will be on the information since the last test, including notes about the brain and spinal cord, Dr. Edelsohn’s lectures on various disorders, readings from the Brain Facts book, and information about cord level sensory, motor and reflex testing.  The cranial nerves and special senses will not be on this test.
3. Test on Wednesday, 5/13/15, on the cranial nerves and special senses and any other relevant information.

http://cim.ucdavis.edu/EyeRelease/Interface/TopFrame.htm – Visit this site to practice with the “Eye Simulator” version 2.  Take notes on how damage to different muscles or nerves affects the movement abilities of the eye.  You will need to click on “Eye Movement Simulator”  You can also feel free to explore the pupil response simulator and the patient cases.  This site is very cool.  In the end, make sure you know how each muscle moves the eye and which nerve controls each of the muscles. (hint: one nerve controls 4 muscles, the other two nerves control one muscle each)

http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/the25/fundoscopic.html – Visit this site and scroll down to “Findings” to see pictures of the retina in normal and various abnormal conditions.

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp – Visit this site to take a test for color blindness. (Ishihara Test)

http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/ – Visit this site to view various ways to fool your eyes.  Definitely try “An Intriguing After Image” on ‘page 2’.

Watch the HHMI Mapping Memory lecture located here:

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/mapping-memory-brain

Take notes while you watch.

Due: Friday, 12/5/14 before class (we will watch another part during class and you will have had to watch this part first beforehand)

You will have a test on all things on Wednesday, 10/28/14.  You can take a practice test here:
http://www.docfleetwood.net/neuroscience/studyguides/neuropracticetest1.htm

Be sure to understand WHY the correct answers are correct and not just memorize.  The actual test questions will be different but cover similar concepts.

Go to my neuroscience wiki page on drugs located here:

http://www.docfleetwood.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Drugs

Complete the “lesson” links to learn how a neuron works, what happens at the synapse and how drugs affect this.  As an added bonus, the “Mouse Party” activity is pretty funny 🙂

Use the information from the site to create a table in a Google Spreadsheet with the following information: drug name, method of intake, how the drug affects the neurons in the brain, and how the drug kills you.  For example…  Cocaine, snort, inject or smoke, blocks dopamine reuptake receptors thus prolonging the effect of dopamine, stimulant increases heart rate and causes a heart attack or hyperthermia or brain damage. (but yours will be in a nice, neat table format)

Share that Google Spreadsheet with my tfleetwood charterschool email address.

Name the spreadsheet as follows: LastName FirstName Drugs Neuroscience E 2014a

Due: Tuesday, 10/14/14

Download the Brain Facts book from the Society for Neuroscience.  You can find the latest version of the book here: http://www.brainfacts.org/about-neuroscience/brain-facts-book/

Note there are multiple formats so you can download the one that is best for you (e.g. PDF, MOBI, etc..) – if you don’t know which to choose, download the PDF.  There are also audio files if you are more of an auditory learner.

Once you have downloaded the files, read the Introduction and Chapter 1.

Due: Tuesday, 9/30/14