| Ementa/Descrição: |
O curso focará nas descobertas originais que levaram às principais linhas de pesquisa em Neurociências dos dias atuais. Os assuntos serão tratados
através da discussão dos artigos clássicos sobre a descoberta do DNA, potencial de ação, transmissão sináptica, fatores de crescimento, segundos
mensageiros, neurotransmissores, potenciação de longa duração, dendritos, hipocampo e memória, colunas corticais, sono REM, sistema
neuroendócrino, condicionamento operante, sistema de ativação reticular, drogas psicoativas, modelagem computacional e inteligência artificial, entre
outros. |
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