2019/2020

2020/2021

DM270

BIO/09 (FISIOLOGIA)

DIPARTIMENTO DI MEDICINA MOLECOLARE

MEDICINA E CHIRURGIA (IN LINGUA INGLESE)

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

Primo Semestre (01/10/2020 - 15/01/2021)

3

24 ore di attività frontale

English

SCRITTO E ORALE CONGIUNTI

BOTTINELLI ROBERTO (titolare) - 3 CFU

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The course will teach students the phenomena occurring at molecular, cellular, tissue and organ level which support vital functions. At the end of the course, students will know how the organs and systems of the human body work, how their cooperate, and how their function is controlled to keep homeostasis. What is taught at all level of organisation of the living matter will be pout in the frame of the way the organism works. Students will learn the major correlations between the phenomena occurring in physiologic and pathologic conditions.

Sensory Receptors
The Receptor Potential
Primary Sensory Coding
Stimulus Type
Stimulus Intensity
Stimulus Location
Central Control of Afferent Information
Ascending Neural Pathways in Sensory Systems
Association Cortex and Perceptual

Somatic Sensation
Touch and Pressure
Sense of Posture and Movement
Temperature
Pain
Neural Pathways of the Somatosensory System
Vision
Light
Overview of Eye Anatomy
The Optics of Vision
Photoreceptor Cells and Phototransduction
Neural Pathways of Vision
Color Vision
Color Blindness
Eye Movement
Hearing
Sound
Sound Transmission in the Ear
Hair Cells of the Organ of Corti
Neural Pathways in Hearing
Vestibular System
The Semicircular Canals
The Utricle and Saccule
Vestibular Information and Pathways
Chemical Senses
Taste
Smell
Consciousness, brain and behavior
States of Consciousness
Electroencephalogram
The Waking State
Sleep
Neural Substrates of States of Consciousness
Learning and Memory
Memory
The Neural Basis of Learning and Memory
Cerebral Dominance and Language
Control of Body Movement
Motor Control Hierarchy
Voluntary and Involuntary Actions
Local Control of Motor Neurons
Interneurons
Local Afferent Input
The Brain Motor Centers and the Descending Pathways They Control
Cerebral Cortex
Subcortical and Brainstem Nuclei
Cerebellum
Basal ganglia
Descending Pathways
Muscle Tone
Maintenance of Upright Posture and Balance

Control of visceral functions
sympathetic and parasympatethic systems

Functions of the Hypothalamus

Lectures, rehearsal and questions and answers to the class

One of the following books:

Vander's Human Physiology, 14th Edition - McGraw Hill

Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 25th Edition - McGraw Hill

Berne & Levy Physiology, 6th Edition - Elsevier

Written text (multiple choices) & oral exam

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