Module EW4240-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

every summer semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Nutritional Medicine 2019, optional subject, neuroscience
• Master Nutritional Medicine 2023, optional subject, neuroscience

Classes and lectures:

• EW4240-V Neurobiology (lecture, 2 SWS)
• EW4240-S Neurobiology (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 60 hours in-classroom work
• 120 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• CNS anatomy
• CNS development
• Neurotransmission
• Neurotransmitters and their receptors
• Intracellular signal transduction in neurons
• Peripheral nervous system
• Plasticity and memory formation
• Homeostatic functions of the brain
• Motivation and decision making
• Circadian rhythms and sleep
• Gut-brain axis
• The endocrine brain

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students can explain the basics of neurobiological function.
• The students can explain the structure and development of the CNS.
• They can explain neuronal plasticity and circuit regulation.
• They know examples for CNS-periphery crosstalk in metabolic regulation and can explain them.

Grading through:

• Oral examination

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Henrik Oster

Teacher:

• Institute of Neurobiology
• Dr. rer. nat. Violetta Pilorz
• Dr. rer. nat. Isabel Heyde
• PD Dr. Misa Hirose

Literature:

• A. Robert Martin, David A. Brown, Mathew E. Diamond; Antonino Cattaneo, Francisco F. De-Miguel, and Foreword by John Nicholls : From Neuron to Brain (Sixth Edition) December 2020; ISBN: 9781605354392
• Editors - Scott Brady, George Siegel, R. Wayne Albers, Donald Price : Basic Neurochemistry, Principles of Molecular, Cellular, and Medical Neurobiology (8th Edition) November 2011; ISBN: 9780123749475

Language:

• offered only in English

Notes:

Last Updated:

28.11.2025