PTHED 1532: Human Neuroscience

College/Program
Physical Therapy Program
Credits 3.5
The first of two neuroscience courses, this course develops students' ability to identify and describe the principal structural components and corresponding functions of the nervous system. Emphasis is on the nervous system structures and processes which support perception and action including somatosensation, visual, auditory, and vestibular systems, and spinal, sub-cortical, and cortical roles in the coordination and control of movement. Students will begin to relate structural components with function and correlate lesions in sensory and motor systems with neurological deficits seen in clinical practice.