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NB/Bi/CNS 154 - Principles of Neuroscience

NB/Bi/CNS 154

Principles of Neuroscience

9 units (3-0-6)   |  third term
Prerequisites: NB/Bi/CNS 150 or equivalent.

This course aims to distill the fundamental tenets of brain science, unlike the voluminous textbook with a similar title. What are the essential facts and ways of understanding in this discipline? How does neuroscience connect to other parts of life science, physics, and mathematics? Lectures and guided reading will touch on a broad range of phenomena from evolution, development, biophysics, computation, behavior, and psychology. Students will benefit from prior exposure to at least some of these domains. Given in alternate years; not offered 2025-26.

Instructor: Meister
Published Date: Aug. 21, 2025