We are pleased to inform you that we will be offering a new subject “Basic physiological and anatomical brain science” in Sokendai Brain Science Joint Program from this first semester beginning in June 2015.

The objective of this course is to acquire basic knowledge of Brain Science.

Along with the textbook, students can learn the elements of neuroscience exhaustively, and get an opportunity to visit laboratories in NIPS to see actual experiments related to the lectures, thus, students can enrich their understanding.

Lecture materials

Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (3rd ed.) Bear, Connors & Paradiso.

Lecture Schedule (Wednesdays 10:00-11:30)

June 3^rd,  10^th, 17^th,  July 1^st, 8^th, 15^th ,22^nd,  September 2^nd

Tutorial Schedule (Wednesday 10:00-11:30, 13:30-15:00 *may change )

September 9^th

Place: NIPS (Myodaiji) 1F, Lecture room

Tutorials:

“Experiment 1”at  (Dept. Physiological Sciences)

Yasuo Kawaguchi (Yamate area： Yamate 2nd Building 5F, Kawaguchi Lab)

“Experiment 2”at  (Dept. Physiological Sciences)

Atsushi Nambu (Myodaiji area: NIPS 7F, Nambu Lab)

Lectures will be delivered by Remote lecture system, however, students should take Tutorials on site.

For further details of this course, please visit “Curriculums and credits”and “Schedule of classes”in the Sokendai Brain Science Joint Program Home Page from here:　　　　

http://sbsjp.nips.ac.jp/eng/subject_unit/#contentBox22

http://sbsjp.nips.ac.jp/eng/schedule/subject23/2015/

Please check it out occasionally.

If you are interested in joining this course, please submit “course registration”.