Laboratory Techniques in Behavioral Neuroscience

这个项目解决了需要一个跨学科的实验室课程，为学生的研究生课程和职业生涯在行为神经科学做好准备。该课程将为来自不同部门的学生提供一个获得行为和神经生理学技术“实践”经验的机会。这些技术将由心理学系和生物科学系的教师教授。实验室练习包括计算机模拟巨乌贼轴突的单细胞电生理记录，神经解剖学的计算机辅助教程，通过外周途径给药，立体定位外科手术和组织学分析。 该课程将作为针对各种生命科学专业的选修课提供。录像实验室程序（开发和获得作为本课程的结果），演示和计算机软件对神经系统的结构功能关系将提高其他几个心理学和生物学课程。 由这里要求的设备支持的行为神经科学实验室将被用作教学和研究实验室，涉及本科生助理的教师研究项目。为了向其他四年制本科院校传播信息，我们将在州心理协会举办研讨会和学生演讲。信息还将通过在神经科学学会年会上的海报展示和对行为神经科学感兴趣的本科生的网页传播。

This project addresses the need for an interdisciplinary laboratory course to prepare students for graduate programs and careers in behavioral neuroscience. The course will give student majors from a number of different departments an opportunity to gain "hands-on" experience with both behavioral and neurophysiological techniques. The techniques will be taught by instructors from both the Department of Psychology and the Department of Biological Sciences. Laboratory exercises include computer simulations of single-cell electrophysiological recordings from the giant squid axon, computer-assisted tutorials in neuroanatomy, administration of drugs by peripheral routes, stereotaxic surgical procedures, and histological analysis. The course will be offered as an elective targeted for a variety of life science majors. Videotaped laboratory procedures (developed and obtained as a consequence of this course), demonstrations, and computer software on structure-function relationships of the nervous system will improve several other psychology and biology courses. The behavioral neuroscience laboratory supported by the equipment requested here will be utilized as both a teaching and research laboratory, with faculty research projects involving undergraduate assistants. To disseminate information to other four year undergraduate institutions, we will conduct workshops and student presentations at the state psychological association. Information will also be disseminated via poster presentation at the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience and via a Web page for undergraduates interested in behavioral neuroscience.