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301405 VO History of Neuroscience through the Nobel Prizes (2025S)

1.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Tu 04.03. 16:45-18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

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  • Tuesday 11.03. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 18.03. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 01.04. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 29.04. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 06.05. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 13.05. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 20.05. 16:45 - 18:45 Seminarraum ZfH Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Neuroscience is still a rapidly growing field and the ever increasing knowledge forces students to learn more and more factual details. Conversely, timely restrictions limit their ability to learn about the history of neuroscience and the origins of ideas that are at the center of today´s knowledge. These historical findings, however, are also excellent learnings paradigms to study scientific praxis, which includes carefully studying processes of interest, developing theories, planning experiments or testing and verifying hypotheses.
To offer students an opportunity to engage with the exciting history of neuroscience and to learn from its highlights, we offer a lecture series devoted to the history of neuroscience through the Nobel Prizes. For that purpose we planned a series of sixteen lectures (45 minutes) addressing different Nobel Prizes, ranging from first descriptions of brain structures in 1906 to the elucidation of the circadian rhythm in 2017.
A multidisciplinary team of lecturers from different areas of neuroscience, primarily belonging to the Medical University of Vienna but with support from the University of Vienna and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, have agreed to contribute a lecture.

Assessment and permitted materials

We aim to have written examinations in presence covering all parts of the lecture. However this might be changing acording to the pandemic situation. The examination dates will be annonced during the lecture.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students should acquire knowledge of the historical developments of neuroscience including awardees, major findings and the sequence of these findings. Moreover, they should be able to reconstruct the key experiments that were important for the suggestion of new ideas and concepts. In addition, they should be able to relate these findings with the actual state of knowledge in the respective field. Finally, students should be able to name scientific traditions foundational to the different research domains of neuroscience and should be aware of major debates that have been solved by the findings of the Nobel prize awardees.

Examination topics

The entire content of the lecture (cf. description of the lecture)

Reading list

References in the lectures.

Association in the course directory

MNEU IV.,MNEU V., MMB IV., MMEI III

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