In a series of research lectures given by UCL neuroscientists you will learn how the fundamental biophysical properties of neurones and their ion channels,...

Receptors and Synaptic Signalling (ANAT0018)

In a series of research lectures given by UCL neuroscientists you will learn how the fundamental biophysical properties of neurones and their ion channels, neurotransmitters and their receptors contribute to neuronal processing in health and disease.

There is also an optional introductory week focussing on the passive properties (electrical equivalent circuit of a neurone, length constant, time constant, Nernst potentials etc.).

Indicative lecture titles

Week 1: voltage-gated ion channels

Introduction to Ion Channels
	Voltage-gated Ca2+ -channels: their role in disease
	Voltage-gated Na+-channels: targets for anti-epileptics and neuroprotectors
	Voltage-gated K+-channels: from structure to disease
Week 2: chemical neurotransmission

Presynaptic mechanisms
	Nicotinic receptors
	Analysis of gating and kinetics of ligand-gated ion channels: theory and applications
	Ligand-gated ion channels in synaptic transmission
Week 3: neuronal inhibition

Introduction to neuronal inhibition
	GABAA receptors in central transmission
	GABAA receptor functioning and trafficking
	GABABR's: function and dynamics
Week 4: synaptic integration and plasticity

Introduction to synaptic integration and plasticity
	Integration of synaptic transmission
	Modulation of encoding and integrative properties of neurones by K+-channels
	Memories are made of this...

Economics Year Abroad Module 3 (ECON0036)

This course concentrates on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the origins of...

History of the Habsburg Monarchy 1700-1918 (HIST0483)

This course concentrates on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the origins of nationalism in Central Europe, baroque art and architecture, and fin-de-siecle Vienna. The current schedule has lectures on: the Habsburg Dynasty; the Lands and Peoples of the Monarchy; Baroque Triumphalism; Survival and Reform under Maria Theresa; Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism; the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Challenge; Metternich; Magyar and Czech National Awakenings; Galicia and the Pre-March; the 1848 Revolutions; Neo-Absolutism; the 1867 Settlement; Nationalism and Politics in the Czech Lands; Austrian Liberalism; Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Autonomous Galicia; Social Democracy; The Habsburg Monarchy as a Cultural Idea; the South Slav Question; the Great War and the Dissolution of the Monarchy; and a final revision lecture. A principal aim of the course is to introduce students to the outstanding secondary literature on the history of the Monarchy.