Instructor:
Dr. Hubert de Bruin (debruin@mcmaster.ca)
ITBA 211, ext. 24171
Course Outline:
Outline 2014
Lectures:
Lecture 1 Introduction to Course
Lecture 2 Introduction to Excitable
Cells
Lecture 3 Flow of Ions and Current in
Solutions
Lecture 4 Nernst21
Potential
Lecture 5
Parallel Conductance
Lecture 6 Changing Vm
Lecture 7 Gates
Lecture 8 Gate
Stochastics
Lecture 9 Action
Potentials
Lecture 10
Space-voltage Clamp
Lecture 11 Action
Potential Generation
Lecture 12 Beyond HH
Lecture 13 AP
Propagation
Lecture 14 AP
Propagating Math
Lecture 15
Propagation Velocities
Lecture 16 Stimulation
Lecture 17
Stimulation 2
Lecture 18
Extracellular Fields
Lecture 19 Lumped
Sources
Lecture 20 Cardiac
Activity
Lecture 21 Cardiac
Cont’d
Lecture 22 The Synapse
Lecture 23
Electromyography
Lecture 24 Neural
Function
Lecture 25 Neural
Synapse
Lecture 26 EEG
Lecture 27
ElectroStimulation
Lecture 28 Nerve
Stimulation
Lecture 29A
Stimulation Recruitment
Lecture 29B Cardiac
Pacing
Lecture 30 FES
Lecture 31Brain
Stimulation
Lecture 32
Brain Stimulation cont’d
Tutorials:
Tutorial #4 Questions
Tutorial #5 Questions
Tutorial #6 Questions
Tutorial #7 Questions
Tutorial #8 Questions
Tutorial #9 Questions
Course News and Notes
The lab sheets have been marked, and
although almost everyone was able to follow instructions and get reasonable
answers,
many people fell down badly on the
explanations sometimes having no idea how to explain what the mechanisms were.
Final Exam Formula Sheet These are the formulas that will be
supplied with the exam
Final exam outline: 5 multiple choice questions; 4 essay
type questions on aspects or applications of tissue stimulation, or
electrophysiology: 2 problem type questions
Previous Exams:
Project Reports