Psychology 2360

Brain and Behaviour

Welcome to the course

This course presents the fundamentals of Neuroscience.

Basic neuroscience – brain cells, neuroanatomy, how cells communicate.

How we know the external world (the senses).

How we interact in that world (movement).

Physiology of sex, sleep and feeling.

Who am I?

Dr. Jonathan Marotta • Email: jonathan.marotta@umanitoba.ca• Office: P310 Duff Roblin • Phone: 204-474-7057

Have question you didn't think of in class? Email me.

Or, setup an appointment.

Grader/Teaching Assistant

Tiffany Lazar• Email: lazart@cc.umanitoba.ca• Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:00pm DR P241

Textbook

Carlson’s Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience The bookstore has a custom version of this book created

for this class.

MyPsychLab Course ID: marotta11962

Do yourself a favour (i.e. DO THIS) • read the text book before class and use the online lecture

notes• review the lectures regularly and re-read the text book

after class• this may seem like a lot to handle – trust me, its worth it.

Course web page

http://um-neuroscience.blogspot.com/• Will contain lectures, useful information and answers to your

emailed questions.

• Lectures will be posted one week or more before they are presented in class.

• Bring lecture notes to class so that you can just add to them and not have to write

down everything I’m saying.

• I would encourage you to go through the lectures online as well because all the

material doesn’t show up in printouts.

Evaluation: Term tests Sept. 23, 2014 (20%) Chapters 2-3 Oct. 21, 2014 (30%) Chapters 4-7 Nov. 6, 2014 (20%) Chapters 8-10 Dec. 2, 2014 (20%) Chapters 13-14

Online writing assignments (10%) MyPsychLab

Marks Breakdown

A+ 90%+A 80-89%B+ 75-79%B 70-74%C+ 65-69%C 60-64%D 50-59%F below 50%

I want to go into Clinical Psychology to help people.

Does anyone really care about this stuff?

Clinical Neuropsychology

But, I’m interested in Social Psychology

Social Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience

Which brings us to where we’ll start…

For Next Time

Start reading Chapter 2.

You will want to read this chapter several times before the term test. There is a lot to learn here.