Healthy Hormones and Modern Ills
NS 144T Fall 2006, TTH 9-10:20, CSC 333
Welcome to Healthy Hormones and Modern Ills. In this course, we'll explore the healthy-state physiology and disease-state pathology of the endocrine system - an organ system that, like the nervous system, has broad effects on bodily function. Two specific course objectives are to establish an endocrinology knowledge base and to understand the social and scientific context of increasingly common endocrine diseases. Another objective as a tutorial is to gain skills you'll use at Hampshire and beyond. Enjoy!
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| Endocrinology Basics | Neurobiology | |
| Endocrine IP Review | Neurotransmitter signal paths | |
| G-protein signal path | Wash Med Neuropaths | |
| Neuro-endo reflex movie | Parasympathetic pupil reflex | |
| Hormone matching | ||
Course Director Dr. Cynthia Gill (Cindy), cgill@hampshireedu Office: CSC 305, Phone: 559-5358
| Date | Readings | Topics | Due* | |||
| Sep 5 | Th | Endocrinology- The Big Questions | ||||
| Sep 7 | Th | Text Ch 1 Stress/Metab | Basic physiology of hormones; Energy regulation | Glucose reg worksheet (IC) | ||
| Sep 12 | T | Endo Review | Endocrinology tutorial | |||
| Sep 14 | Th | Text pp. 42-47 IP Web Review | Energy regulation, Diabetes | Graph, Tutorial worksheet | ||
| Sep 19 | T | CDC 2006, 1929 Report | Diabetes and syndrome X as national issues, molecular and cellular mechanisms | Compare articles, figures, 1 pg last add/drop day | ...Life of the Cell animation | |
| Sep 21 | Th | Epidemiol lit | Epidemiology - Meet in Rm 316 | |||
| Sep 26 | T | Gross,2004 Schulz,2006 | Diabetes risk trends, analyzing articles *read over articles briefly before class | Two topics of interest (IC) | ||
| Sep 27 | W | Advising day - meet with Dr. Gill | ||||
| Sep 28 | Th | Ryan, 2005 | Treatment future for diabetes, article analysis | 5 questions from Ryan paper | ||
| Oct 3 | T | PhysioEx Act#6,7 | Virtual experiment- alloxan in rats | Write-up of Ryan paper | ||
| Oct 5 | Th | Library: Meet in library 3rd floor training room | Summary of virtual experiment | |||
| Oct 6 | F | Conference | UMass Conference: Food Intake Endocrinol | |||
| Oct 10 | T | No class- Fall break | ||||
| Oct 12 | Th | Text Ch.4 | Stress endocrinology, measures | Find article #2 | ||
| Oct 17 | T | Sapolsky,1999 | Stress and neural degeneration | Stress diagram, questions (IC) | ||
| Oct 19 | Th | . | Stress, data collection and analysis | Article #2 writeup, graph(IC) | ||
| Oct 24 | T | Stress and cognition | Final paper-submit topic | |||
| Oct 26 | Th | Text Ch. 7 | Sex (as a noun) PPT slides | Sex differentiation(IC), Revision article #2,Find art #3 | ||
| Oct 31 | T | Guillette,1994 | Endocrine disruptors – alligators without balls | Article #3 writeup, register for Jan term, Nov 1 | ||
| Nov 2 | Th | Colon,2000 | Big boy breasts and little girl weenies | |||
| Nov 7 | T | Balls to the moon: testosterone abuse | Final paper- 1st draft | |||
| Nov 9 | Th | No class- Advising day, meet with Dr. Gill | ||||
| Nov 14 | T | Little boy brains and little girl brains | ||||
| Nov 16 | Th | Sex (as a verb) | last day to drop a course | |||
| Nov 21 | T | Making friends by smell: affiliative behaviors | Final paper- 2nd draft | |||
| Nov 23 | Th | No class - Thanksgiving | ||||
| Nov 28 | T | Aggression, dehydration and murder | Abstract for final talk | |||
| Nov 30 | Th | Oxytocin as the love drug | ||||
| Dec 5 | T | Final presentations | ||||
| Dec 7 | Th | Final presentations | Final paper- final draft | |||
| * due dates indicate assignment due at the beginning of class time, unless indicated as an in-class activity (IC) | ||||||
| Regulation and homeostasis pdf | Control pathways |
Anatomy & basics
PhysioEx Exp
Nervous system organization pdf