KINE 401 - Neurophysiology of Aging

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): KINE 304 or BIOL 345
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Domain (Anchored): NQR
A seminar course designed to provide in-depth knowledge of the physiological changes in the nervous system with aging (including common pathologies affecting learning/memory, motor control, vision, and hearing) and to refine skills needed to evaluate and synthesize the scientific literature. This course includes lectures on each topic, systematic analysis and discussion of the scientific literature, construction of an original research proposal, and oral presentation of the proposal. This course satisfies the Kinesiology & Health Sciences major writing requirement, and the Neuroscience major writing requirement.