Characteristics of the nervous system:
- Cellular components of the nervous system (neurons and glia) and the cytoskeleton
-The central and peripheral nervous system: structure/function relationship
Cerebral energetic metabolism
Electrochemical characteristics of nervous cells:
- Neuronal excitability and ionic fluxes
- Ionic channels and transporters
- Role of myelinization in conductance of nervous impulse
Synaptic transmission
- Electrical and chemical synapses
- Mechanisms of exocytosis and synaptic proteins
- Axonal transport
Inter- and intracellular signaling
- Main types of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, membrane receptors and signaling pathways
- Neurotrophic and transcription factors
Neurobiology of senses
- Somato-sensorial system
- Vision
- Olfaction
- Audition
- Vestibular system
- Taste
Neuroendocrine system and the hypothalamus
Hippocampus and memory

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