Daten
Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2024-2025
Lehrbeauftragte/r
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Mátics Róbert
associate professor,
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Semesterwochenstunden
Vorlesungen: 24
Praktika: 0
Seminare: 0
Insgesamt: 24
Fachangaben
- Kode des Kurses: OPF-SB3-T
- 2 kredit
- Pharmacy
- Optional modul
- both
keine
Zahl der Kursteilnehmer für den Kurs:
min. 5 – max. 15
Erreichbar als Campus-Kurs für . Campus-karok: BTK TTK
Thematik
Prof Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University has a free course on human behavioural biology on YouTube. It covers topics from molecular and behavioral genetics through sex, aggression, language to diseases like schizophrenia, Huntingtons, Tourettes etc. In this course we will hear and see altogether 8 of his 2010 lectures (each ca. 45-50 mins) and discuss the information delivered. The lectures can be stopped at any point so that emerging questions are negotiated in detail. Some examples:
- How to solve the problem that there are not enough genes to code for every bifurcation in the lungs or blood vessels?
- How to press an infinitely long tube into a limited space?
- What does a fractal have to do with human body development or the wiring of the cortex?
- How do languages arise out of nothing?
- What's the definition of healthy? Somebody, who has the same diseases that everybody else does?
Vorlesungen
- 1. Organisational topics, short introduction - Mátics Róbert
- 2. Reductionism - Mátics Róbert
- 3. from grandmother-neurons to Jennifer Aniston-neurons - Mátics Róbert
- 4. How to run out of genes and neurons? - Mátics Róbert
- 5. Non-linear and non-additive systems. Chaotic systems. - Mátics Róbert
- 6. Lorenz-attractor, strange attractors, the butterfly effect - Mátics Róbert
- 7. Fractals, Menger-sponge, Cantor-cube, Sierpinski carpet - Mátics Róbert
- 8. Cellular automaton, Conways game of life - Mátics Róbert
- 9. Neural networks, engrams, fractals to solve the packing problem - Mátics Róbert
- 10. Six degrees of separation, wiring of the cortex, bottom-up quality control - Mátics Róbert
- 11. Common features of human languages - Mátics Róbert
- 12. Modularity, lateralization, aphasias, alexia, dyslexia - Mátics Róbert
- 13. Chomsky vs Skinner - Mátics Róbert
- 14. Nicaraguan sign language, language acquisition - Mátics Róbert
- 15. Animal languages - Mátics Róbert
- 16. Genetics of language use: FOXP2, HARE5 - Mátics Róbert
- 17. Pidgins to creoles. Disappearing languages - Mátics Róbert
- 18. Huntingtons, Tourettes, PANDAS, OCD, Jerusalem-syndrome, Stendhal-syndrome, Rapunzel-syndrome, Apotemnophilia etc - Mátics Róbert
- 19. Depression: biology and psychology, Reactive and Major depression - Mátics Róbert
- 20. Symptoms: anhedonia, grief, guilt, psychomotor retardation, self-injury, suicide, vegetative symptoms - Mátics Róbert
- 21. SAD, norepinephrine, MAO inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, reserpine, dopamine, Prozac, serotonine and SSRIs, substance P - Mátics Róbert
- 22. Psychosurgery, cingulotomy, hypothyroidism, hormonal effects - Mátics Róbert
- 23. mourning vs melancholia, learned helplessness, genetic components - Mátics Róbert
- 24. Summary, questions, discussion, feedback - Mátics Róbert
Praktika
Seminare
Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes
Obligatorische Literatur
no compulsory books
Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff
Handouts will be given
Skript
Extended notes available
Empfohlene Literatur
J. Gleick: Chaos. Penguin 1988
Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters
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Semesteranforderungen
Make up possible by appointment
Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten
Make up possible by appointment
Prüfungsfragen
No detailed questions are asked, rather a synthesis and deep understanding of the connections should be reached and given back.