Learning Materials

Shining brain. Source: Pixaby CC-0
Shining brain. Source: Pixabay CC-O

Learning Materials for the course Medical Neuroscience consists of several categories:

  • Material created especially for learners Medical Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience book recommendations
  • Recommended readings from Neuroscience, 5th ed
  • inks to very useful sites when reviewing course material

Specific Learning Materials Medical Neuroscience: created especially for the course

Roadmap to successful study
Roadmap for effective learning

A general roadmap to successful study has been developed by course mentors and staff: Roadmap for effective learning.

 

Summary of Pathways Medical Neuroscience
Summary of Pathways
  • Summary of Pathways  (2020, Neuroscience 5th and 6th ed.) This is a summary for the Final Exam of the course. Images in the Summary come from Anatomy & Physiology (OpenStax College .© 1999-2016, Rice University). You can use this material for educational purposes but remember to give the source. You can look at Virtual Lab, General Resources to find out how to do that.

Tutorial notes, merged per unit

Neural Pathways
Neural Pathways – by Kevin Parks (Medical Neuroscience 2016)

Students Notes on the course

Giulia Petitto, a mentor of our course has shared her Notebook Medical Neuroscience with us. We recommend that you take a look at Giulia’s Notebook for yourself. You can find it here.

Notebook Medical Neuroscience by Giulia Petitto De Gregorio

Concepts of Learning learnmedicalneuroscience.nl

One of our course mentors, Anthony Waichulis, has made a very clear document describing the concepts of learning. Both interesting from a theoretical point of view: How does learning work? and from a practical point of view: What can I do to improve the result of my learning efforts?

Navigating the Learning Proces
Concepts of learning by Anthony Waichulis, mentor of the course Medical Neuroscience (June 2021)

Navigating the Learning Proces

Brain Section Images for visualizing pathways

Community Teaching Assistant (now Mentor) B.C. Jackson created the following learning tools for reviewing pathways during the second run of Medical Neuroscience in 2014. Because B.C. has been careful to use material free from copyright you can use and share the material free. It is a resource you can use very well to visualize the neural pathways.

Neuroscience book recommendations

Free online neuroscience textbooks

(You can use them but please be careful with what you share, avoid copyright infringement):

Important learning materials: figures in the textbook

Most relevant figures from the second edition of the course textbook for sensory and motor systems are below. You can copy the name of the figure and paste it in ‘Search in this book’. Then a list of relevant pages will appear. Click ‘Show details’ of the most relevant page and a link to the most relevant page appears, click that and scroll down to locate the figure.

  • Dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway and Trigeminal lemniscal pathway= figure 9.6
  •  Anterolateral pathway/Spinothalamic tract and Trigeminal thalamic pathway = figure 10.3
  •  (Lateral and anterior) corticospinal tract. Pyramidal tracts = figure 17.9
  •  Retina-geniculate-striate cortex pathway = figure 12.8
  •  Pupillary light reflex = figure 12.3
  •  Direct and indirect pathway of the basal ganglia = figure 18.1
  •  Disinhibition in direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia in a healthy brain =figure 18.8
  •  Hypo and hyperkinetic disorders on movement control pathways = figure 18.10
  •  Input into cerebellum = figure 19.3
  •  Ascending output directed to thalamocortical circuits = figure 19.6
Neuroscience textbooks

Finally relevant books for the study of Medical Neuroscience:

  • Purves – Neuroscience  (the link to the 5th edition open to all, the website of the 6th edition requires registration by a registration code in the book)
  • Blumenfield – Neuroanatomy through clinical cases

For learners that can use the Dutch language:

  • Volume 1 of the “Compendium Geneeskunde” part 03 – Neurologie (page 142 – 225). The Compendium Geneeskunde has 5 Volumes. It is series of books that consists of 5 volumes, the essence of 6 of years medicine study that facilitates the students learning and preparing for their progress tests and specialists to keep a very accessible overview of medicine. The Neurologie chapter is a very thorough overview of neurology that allows you to link the Medical Neuroscience information to the Clinical Neurology of Medical Practice .

Recommended readings from Neuroscience, 5th ed.

In the learning objectives from each tutorial on the course website you will find the recommended readings from Neuroscience, 6th edition. Here you find a link to the pages in the 5th edition.

 In addition, links to very useful sites when reviewing course material:

General Learning Materials Medical Neuroscience

MRI: Frontal, Axial, and Sagittal MRI images. This material is especially relevant to exam questions with MRI material. It seems a good idea to thoroughly explore the site at the beginning of Medical Neuroscience.