This Level 2 course is core for BSc/MSci Neuroscience students and available to Biology, Zoology, Genetics and Biochemistry students. The overall learning objective is that students should be able to explain how the nervous system develops, is organised, and processes information.  This will be achieved through presentation of comparative invertebrate and vertebrate studies, consideration of evolutionary concepts, and a detailed analysis of the development, structure, and function of the mammalian brain. The lecture sessions are complemented by workshops on Drosophila and chick embryo development, on the neuroanatomy of the human spinal cord, and dissection of brains subject to the availability of tissue.

This module will enable students to understand how the nervous system develops, is organised and processes information.  Students will understand how comparative studies and evolutionary concepts help us understand the development, structure, and function of the mammalian brain.