Neuroscience

Neuroscience is a Science course in the CTY program. Its only prerequisite is enrollment in and passing a biology course, in CTY or in high school. Its course code is NEUR, and it is offered at Baltimore and Carlisle.

Course Description

Neuroscience is an introduction to the study of neuroscience.

Class History

Introduction to Neuroscience was designed and taught by Kurt Thoroughman and Matthew Belmonte in 96.2 at Johns Hopkins. Thoroughman and Belmonte returned in 1997 to teach at Session 1 and Session 2, respectively. Neither of them returned to CTY in subsequent years.

The course as designed by Thoroughman and Belmonte is described at http://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Teaching/Neuroscience/.

From 10.1 to 11.2 at Carlisle the class was taught by John Rutter. In 11.1 and 11.2 it was TA'd by Josh Da Silva, otherwise known as Tah or Yoshi.

In 11.1 at Carlisle the awesome Nerdy Neurons of Carlisle took the class. Cerebellum, a parody of the song Umbrella by Rihanna, was created by the Nerdy Neurons. "When the neurons fire they fire together, said we'll always be together, I said I'll always be your brain....Now that its braining more than ever, know that we'll still have each other. you can stand under my cerebellum, ellum, ellum, e, e, e.....You can run into my brain, its ok dont be afraid, come into me theres no difference in between our lobes" Dr. Rutter was famously heard to say "Theres no F***ing way these ions are going to get through this s**t", "You can, if thats how you roll", "How do you know I'm not a cleverly disguised woman", "Damn you Rutter, Damn you!", and "Out of the fiery depths of hell comes a "Bawk!" ".