The neuroscience of drugs for therapy, for prevention, and for recreation. Drug addiction and drug abuse. You’ll learn the prospects for new generations of medications in neurology, psychiatry, aging, and treatment of substance abuse.
Drugs and the Brain
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Caltech
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
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1Week 1. Organization and Overview
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11 vídeos (total de (Total 123 mín.) min), 1 teste
11 videos
2. Organization and Overview, weeks 4- 7 9min
3. What is a Drug? 13min
4. Drug Entry Into the Nervous System 12min
5. Introduction to Drug Receptors 11min
6. More about receptors as proteins 13min
7. Introduction to Mammalian Brains 9min
8. Techniques for Studying the Brain 10min
9. Botulinum toxin 9min
10. Origin of the Resting Potential 10min
11. Electrical Aspects of Ion Channels 8min
1 exercício prático
Quiz on miniLectures 1-1136min
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2Week 2. Dose-response Relations
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10 vídeos (total de (Total 92 mín.) min), 1 teste
10 videos
2 Quantitative Approaches, Agonist Only 10min
3 Agonists plus Antagonists 7min
1 The Synapse as a Drug-Sensitive Biophysical Machine 8min
2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: Activation 10min
3 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: Desensitization 5min
4 Inhibitory Ligand-gated channels 9min
5 Glutamate-gated receptor channels 11min
1 Pore Blockers at ligand-gated channels 6min
2 Voltage-gated channel blockers 11min
1 exercício prático
Quiz on Week 2 miniLectures32min
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3Week 3. G protein pathways
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10 vídeos (total de (Total 118 mín.) min), 1 teste
10 videos
2 Inhibitory G Proteins and their Effectors 7min
3 The Stimulatory G Protein (Gs) Pathway 11min
4 The Ca-mobilizing G protein (Gq) pathway; Modifying G protein Pathways 11min
5 “Outside-in” Mechanisms for Long-term Actions on G Protein Pathways 12min
1 Drugs Bind to Neurotransmitter Transporters 15min
2 Neurotransmitter Transporters as Molecules 11min
1 Overview 10min
2 Targets 8min
3 System level effects 14min
1 exercício prático
Quiz on Week 3 miniLectures38min
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4Week 4. Nicotine Addiction
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12 vídeos (total de (Total 145 mín.) min), 1 teste
12 videos
2 Circuit and cellular level. "Outside-In" Mechanisms 11min
3 Circuit and Cellular Level: Upregulation via “Inside-Out” Mechanisms 16min
4 Recent Genetic Data 13min
5 Drugs for smoking cessation; Harm Reduction 14min
1 Components of Opiate Addiction 10min
2 Circuits and Animal Models 10min
3 “Outside-In” Mechanisms 12min
4 Drugs for Harm Reduction in Opiate Addiction 5min
1 Clinical Description & Genetics 10min
2 Pathophysiology 16min
3 Biomarkers & Therapeutic Approaches 8min
1 exercício prático
Quiz on Week 4 miniLectures30min
Instrutores
Henry A. Lester, PhD
Bren ProfessorDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering
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