TA Office Hours + Review Sessions

/ Sarah Sakly

Due to traveling, office hours will be online for the remainder of the semester. I will be starting review sessions this upcoming week. The way this will work is as follows:

  1. The schedule of lectures covered over the review session is posted below
  2. Submit all questions about the lectures covered on polleverywhere ( this makes it easier for me to see all the questions and make sure I don’t miss anyone). Please also make sure that you submit questions based on what is being covered that day, and also ensure to submit those questions PRIOR to the review session. It will be far too long for me to cover all the content and detail of the course, so it is essential that you prepare ahead. 
  3. Attend the review session and feel free to communicate questions (through the pollev) if they come up during the session. 

The zoom link below should work for all three sessions.

https://cwm.zoom.us/my/ssakly

SCHEDULE:

Tuesday 25th : 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM:

Lectures 1 to 7:

  1. Biophysics, dynamics, and organization of the brain
  2. Qualitative analysis and characteristic times
  3. Compartment modeling, phase diagrams, exponential relaxation, physical dynamics
  4. Nernst Equilibrium potential and GHK voltage equation
  5. RC circuit theory of plasma membrane
  6. GHK current equation and rectification
  7. Voltage- dependent currents and membrane bistability

Wednesday 26th: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM:

Lectures 8 – 14

  1. Fold, transcritical and pitchfork bifurcations
  2. Voltage clamp recording and Hodgkin-Huxley equations
  3. The Morris Lecar Model and phase plane
  4. Phase plane analysis of 2D ODE systems
  5. The Fitzhugh-Nagumo model, phase plane, and linear stability analysis. 
  6. The Morris- Lecar phase plane, type 2 and type 1 oscilaltions and excitability
  7. Square Wave electrical bursting and homoclinic bifurcations

Monday 2nd : 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Lecture 15 to 21:

  1. Elliptical and Parabolic bursting, the low threshold calcium current and PIR bursting delta oscillations
  2. Somatogastric ganglion, half-center oscillators, escape vs. release dynamics
  3. Network properties of the thalamus
  4. EEG and sensory gating
  5. Local field potentials, hippocampal place cells, theta rhythm
  6. Vision: classification of retinal ganglion cells, parallel pathways, contrast sensitivity spatial frequency analysis. 
  7. Inhibitory interneuron networks and cortical oscillation.

-Sarah