Course on Neurophysics: From molecular channels to neural networks
Who
Prof. Rafael Yuste
Columbia University, NY (USA)
Where
DIPC seminar room
When
March, 2018
The course introduced modern neuroscience with especial emphasis on its connection to physics, both experimentally and theoretically. As a textbook, Prof. Yuste recommended:
Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, “Principles of Neural Design”, The MIT Press, Cambridge Massachussetts (2015). This book is available at the DIPC library.
There were five lectures of one hour and a half each and can be found at the moodle of the course.
The topics were:
- Neuronal biophysics
- Neural anatomy and development
- Methods
- Neural networks
- Neural behavior and open questions