Neurotransmitter Systems of Brain and Their Function
Course duration:4 h
These lectures deal with neurotransmitters, how their activity is involved in brain function. After a consideration of which substances can be classified as neurotransmitter and neuromodulator, the release, effects on neuronal excitability and receptor interaction, as well as location, pathways and possible brain function of each neurotransmitter will be covered in some detail. Special attention will be given to acetylcholine, glutamate, GABA, noradrenaline, dopamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine and the neuroactive peptides. Special part of lecture will concentrate on seeing how the different neurotransmitters may be involved in the initiation and maintenance of some brain disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, dementia, as well as in the sensation of pain and how the drugs which are used in these conditions produce their effects by modifying appropriative neurotransmitter function.
Tutor
Dr. Evgenia Belova
Country: Russia
Place of employment: A.B. Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics, Southern Federal University, Senior Researcher.
Spheres of researches: the problem of the functional state of the brain, neurodynamic organization of information processes in the brain, neural networks, signal processing neurons of the cerebral visual cortex.
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