Week 1: Introduction to Neurons
1) Neuron structure
2) Networks of Neurons and Synapses
3) System of neural processing
4) Basic structures in the brain
5) Sensory - Executive - Behavior systems
Week 2: Excitable Membranes and Neural Activity
1) Membrane Potential and All or None Spike
2) Patch Clamp Techniques, Membrane Potential
3) Ion Channels
4) Current Injection - Synapses
5) Single neuron activity
Week 3: Point models: Hodgkin Huxley Equations (HHE)
1) Point and Compartmental Models of Neurons
2) Hodgkin Huxley Equations - I
3) Hodgkin Huxley Equations - II
4) Reducing the HHE and Moris-Lecar Equations (MLE) 5) Properties of MLE
Week 4: Analysis of Neural Models
1) Phase Plane Analysis - I
2) Phase Plane Analysis - II
3) Analyzing HHE
4) Bifurcations
5) Other Point Models
Week 5: Spike Trains: Encoding and Decoding - I
1) Random Variables and Random Processes
2) Spike Train Statistics and Response Measure
3) Receptive fields and Models of Receptive Fields
4) The Spike Triggered Average (Coding)
5) Stimulus Reconstruction (Decoding)
Week 6: Spike Trains: Encoding and Decoding - II
1) Nonlinear approaches: Basics of Information Theory
2) Maximally Informative Dimensions
3) Discrimination based approaches
4) Measuring Spike Train Distances
5) Statistical Methods in Discrimination
Week 7: Spike Trains: Encoding and Decoding - III
1) Examples-I: Encoding/Decoding in Neural Systems
2) Examples-II: Encoding/Decoding in Neural Systems
3) Neural Population Based Encoding/Decoding - I
4) Neural Population Based Encoding/Decoding - II
5) Examples: Population Based Encoding/Decoding
Week 8: Plasticity - I
1) Synaptic Transmission and Synaptic Strength
2) Ways of Modification of Synaptic Strength
3) Types of Plasticity
4) Short Term Plasticity - I
5) Short Term Plasticity - II
Week 9: Plasticity - II
1) Implications of Short Term Plasticity
2) Long Term Plasticity - I
3) Long Term Plasticity - II
4) Modeling Long Term Plasticity
5) Computational Implications
Week 10: Plasticity - III, Modeling Phenomena with Plasticity
1) Adaptation
2) Attention
3) Learning and Memory - I
4) Learning and Memory - II
5) Developmental Changes
Week 11: Plasticity - IV, Modeling Phenomena with Plasticity
1) Conditioning and Reinforcement Learning
2) Reward Prediction (Error)
3) Decision Problems
4) Learning and Memory - II
5) Developmental Changes
Week 12: Theoretical Approaches and Current Research
1) Optimal Coding Principles - I
2) Optimal Coding Principles - II
3) Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Plasticity
4) Current Topics - I
5) Current Topics - II
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