Program-Specific Required Courses
Kredi: 3
This course aims to provide students graduating from various faculties with the basic knowledge necessary to understand the nervous system and behavior. In this course, courses are basic neuroscience courses, molecular biology, histology, anatomy, biophysics, pharmacology and two introductory clinical courses. Students attending this class will learn a range of topics on neuroscience, from molecular to clinical problems, and will then have sufficient foundations for taking advanced courses on neuroscience.
Kredi: 3
Aim of this course to discuss the basic neurophysiological and neuro-pathological processes in detail. The first part of the course will include basic neuro-pathophysiological mechanisms like calcium cytotoxicity, free radicals and free radical damage, protein aggregation disorders leading to neurodegeneration, apoptosis, and necrosis. Students have assignment for making a presentation regarding one of the pathophysiological mechanism. At the second part of the course pathophysiological processes leading to neuro psychiatric disorders like epilepsy, headache and pain, psychosis, anxiety disorders, subarachnoid hemorrhage and trauma will be discussed in
Kredi: 3
Aim of this course is to introduce the basic subjects of neurobiology, including cellular and morphological details, molecular biology and electrophysiology as well as functional anatomy of the central and the peripheral nervous system. Neurotransmitters, neuromediators and interneuronal interactions will be discussed. There will be introduction lectures on the mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Kredi: 3
The lectures will give a solid grounding in gross anatomical structure and function of the central (brain and the spinal cord) and peripheral (somatic and autonomic) human nervous systems. The course will include both theoretical and practical lectures. The aim of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the structural organization of the human central nervous system in sufficient depth to form the basis for further clinical or research studies of the nervous system.
Credit: 0
This course is non-credit and aims to increase scientific interaction between students and improve students’ presentation skills by ensuring the participation of students from all interdisciplinary programs. The seminar course, which consists of the presentation of the studies and research conducted in front of the community within the framework of the techniques determined with the guidance of the advisor and the question and answer section, is graded periodically as S/U by the program coordinators. The course must be taken at least once and completed successfully within the framework of Council of Higher Education rules. Program-specific rules are determined by program coordinators and shared with students.
Credit: 0
This course is non-credit and is a course in which the advisor evaluates the student’s thesis work. It covers all the studies and research to be carried out on the thesis topic determined with the guidance of the advisor and is graded periodically as S/U by the advisor faculty member.
General Required Courses
Credit:3
Ethical principles in biomedical research, biosafety, ethics in animal studies, human and patients’ rights, ethics in clinical research, national and international examples in publication ethics and principles will be discussed. Course will be completed via CITI online education program.
Credit: 3
An introduction to important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. Tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons. Several statistical methods such as linear regression, ANOVA, logistic regression, survival analysis, nonparametric methods, ROC analysis that are commonly used to study biological problems. In-lab practices on computers and software for statistical analysis, to provide students with the skills to generate, read and interpret the results in their fields of study.
Credit: 0
Foundations and basics of designing effective teaching environments for higher education courses, learning principles, teaching in English, integrating learning technologies into teaching practices, grading, communicating with students and instructors, and superdiversity and gender sensitive pedagogy.
Credit: 0
The following objectives will be met through extensive reading, writing and discussion both in and out of class.Build a solid background in academic discourse, both written and spoken. Improve intensive and extensive critical reading skills. Foster critical and creative thinking. Build fundamental academic writing skills including summary, paraphrase, analysis, synthesis. Master cohesiveness as well as proper academic citation when incorporating the work of others.
Program-Specific Elective Courses
Kredi:3
Discusses the wiring of the central nervous system in human and the main properties of those circuitries. The course content covers broad range of circuitries including monosynaptic reflex and its modulation, inhibitory circuitries in the spinal cord as well as long and short term potentiation in hippocampal neurons, synaptic plasticity and transmission.
Kredi: 3
Microscopic imaging is crucial to our current understanding of biological systems especially for health sciences. Basics of images and imaging, analyzing fluorescence microscopy images with commonly used softwares, image segmentation, colocalisation techniques and analysis, image quantification methods, analysis of three dimensional images, time-lapse image analysis, stitching techniques, ethical principals for image preperation for submissions, practical studies will be covered.
Kredi: 3
Some electrophysiological methods and tools that can be used to improve the motor and cognitive performance of brain in various diseases as well as in healthy people. Course subjects: working mechanism of the brain and neural networks, working mechanism of the brain and neural networks, EEG and EEG recording method, single unit, multiunit activity recording methods, thresholds of our senses, excitation thresholds of our nerve cells, recording during neurosurgery, DBS-Deep brain stimulation, brain computer interfaces, EEG feedback (Neurofeedback) as a brain computer interface, neurofeedback applications, tDCS- transcranial direct current stimulation.
Kredi: 4
Multidisciplinary approach to the diseases of nervous system and ophthalmology. The content of the course includes a review of the physiological, pathological and pharmacological basic principles of the nervous system, the diagnosis and treatment principles of common nervous system diseases, infections of the nervous system, trauma, vascular, degenerative diseases and tumors, emergency service approach to adult and pediatric patients, outpatient clinics, intensive care units, surgical approach to nervous system diseases; common ophthalmologic problems such as refractive disorders, ocular trauma and emergencies, glaucoma, retinal diseases, uveitis, diseases of ocular adnexa. The students will participate in the proceedings of Adult and Pediatric Neurology, Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, Algology and Ophthalmology departments. The program will include lectures, panels, symposia, clinical presentations, demonstrations of laboratory, pathological and imaging methods.
Kredi: 3
The main purpose of this course is to provide a better understanding of sleep medicine and sleep disorders. The course will address the neurophysiological, cardiovascular, respiratory and endocrine mechanisms involved in sleep regulation as well as genetics of sleep and chronobiology. Instrumentation and methods such as polysomnography recordings and scoring of sleep stages will be presented. Students will be introduced to the multidisciplinary field of sleep medicine and be able to describe the main categories of sleep disorders including insomnia, narcolepsy, parasomnias and sleep-related breathing disorders. Initially, each participant will choose a scientific research paper relevant to the course content to review during the course period. These papers will be presented in the last session of the course and the paper work will be evaluated as part of the final grading.
Kredi: 3
Microscopic imaging is crucial to our current understanding of biological systems especially for health sciences. Basics of images and imaging, analyzing fluorescence microscopy images with commonly used softwares, image segmentation, colocalisation techniques and analysis, image quantification methods, analysis of three dimensional images, time-lapse image analysis, stitching techniques, ethical principals for image preperation for submissions, practical studies will be covered.
Kredi: 3
This course covers the pharmacology of the nervous system with special emphasis on mechanisms of action of different drugs acting on the synaptic transmission. At the center will be the seminal question: “How brain works, and how structure behavior relationship is established? The course intends to introduce the basics of the synaptic transmission and drug sensitive sites in synaptic transmission. The components of the integrative chemical communications in the central nervous system will be taken all along the course with the clinical use of different therapeutic drug groups. Priority will be given to explore experimental models in a historical context.
Kredi: 3
The use of animal models provides significant information in the understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of nervous system diseases and disorders in humans. The purpose of this course is to understand the depth of knowledge regarding the methodological principles and concepts in animal models. This course will give students an introduction to basic physiological, anatomical and histological characteristics of laboratory animals. On completion of this course, the students will be familiar with the animal models best suited to study human nervous system disease and disorders.
Credit: 3
This course is a special course given by the student’s advisor for the student’s thesis work. The PhD students who enrolled with a BS degree can count 2 Independent Study course credits, and the PhD students who enrolled with an MS degree and MS students can count 1 Independent Study course credit during the education period. The important thing is that the Independent Study course names and contents that you take must be different to count the credits.
