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

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.