The aim of this course is to systematically analyze learning and memory processes as a consequence of the interaction between molecular, cellular and circuit-based mechanisms. We will focus on the specific experimental (methodological) breakthroughs at each analytical level of the underlying mechanisms of learning and memory: from molecules to circuits.

The course covers the physiology of nerve cells, from the single cell through the neuronal network to the systemic level. The focus is on molecular and cellular mechanisms – synaptic transmission, signal transduction, gene expression, synaptic plasticity.