Motor Control (U01071)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : MED-4-NSmc

This course will explore modern ideas about how we control our movements and their origins in the ideas about the control of muscle length. We hope to explore the development of ideas through a study of classical papers, and of their influence on subsequent thought about human movement.

The course will be mainly taught by discussion of these classical papers and of their modern progeny. Many of the ideas derived from what goes wrong when disease devastates the nervous system but modern imaging studies of normal brain have their place along with the increasingly insightful use of animal experiments to ask about the information required from the brain to control movements.

We will try some experiments on ourselves as demonstrations of what is possible and therefore what is certainly not how the brain does it!

The course will not run in 2004/2005 although some of the material will be part of the Experimental Neuroanatomy courses and some in the Core Course.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Permission of the Curriculum Approval Officer.

? Special Arrangements for Entry : Directors of Studies must contact the Programme Secretary or Programme Organiser for Honours Neuroscience before registering a student for this course. Priority is given to Honours Neuroscience students.