Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) • Biologie

Learning objectives - What is known about sex and the brain? - Neural machinery that makes reproduction possible - How different are the brains of the two sexes - Is by genetics, brain or behaviour - Anatomy & physiology of the nervous system - Activations and organisational effects of steroid hormone

Summary of lecture 5&6 Hut

Learning objectives - Difference between strength and direction of lateralisation - Differences between individual and population biases - Pro’s and cons of lateralisation - Define lateralisation - Negative frequency dependent selection of lateralisation - Chimera’s

Learning objectives - Reproduce the importance of the X, Y chromosome and SRY gene in sex differences - Describe how estradial and testosterone are made - Reproduce the anatomical differences between the male and female brain at the level of the hypothalamus o Differences at the level of nuclei size o Differences at the level of receptor or neurotransmitter expression - Describe how testosterone/ estradiol plays an essential role in sex differences during early development and later stage...

Learning objectives - Reproduce the role of hippocampus in specific learning tasks - Reproduce the differences between Pavlovian Conditioning and Operant Conditioning - Reproduce the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in tone-cued fear and contextual fear conditioning - Reproduce how the role of protein synthesis in the consolidation of contextual fear conditioning was studied - Reproduce the difference between the fear conditioning and active shock avoidance - Reproduce how the object...

Summary about lecture 1&2 from Hut.

Summary about lecture 3&4 from Hut.

Learning objectives - Organization of primitive brains - evolution of “large brains” - relationship between the brain and energy - storage of fat and the brain - our brain is shrinking, but PFC and cerebellum increase - relationship white matter / grey matter - features of neuronal networks - spine density and functionality - spines and mental health - complexity of the brain - most common cause of stroke - 4 central brain systems (ascending systems; modulatory systems) - h...

This summary includes all the information that you need for the course Food And Metabolism. The summary is 108 pages long, because it contains a lot of information, but also a lot of describing pictures which means that you can go fast through it. By reading and understanding this summary you don't even have to watch the lectures and you can be sure of succeeding your Food And Metabolism exam! :)

Summary about the lecture and corresponding literature about Microbial evolution and systematics.