INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Characteristics of hormones. Hormones and cancer. Neuroendocrinology. Hypothalamus. Pituitary, neurohypophysis. Hypophysiotropic hypothalamic factors. Adenohypophysis. Adenohypophysis hormones and their metabolic actions. Thyroid. Thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones actions. TSH. Adrenal glands. Control of adrenal secretion. Parathyroid glands. Calcium metabolism. Sex hormones. The pancreas physiological insulin effects. Diabetes. Functional anatomy of the CNS. Somatosensory system, mental and physical sensations. anatomical substrate of somatic sensibility. Spinal cord. ascending sensory systems. Fibers of the spinal horns. Spinal rolling. Spinally somatotopy . The thalamus. Nuclei with a specific projections, associative and non-specific projections. Pathways of somatic sensibility. anterolateral system. lemniscale system. trigeminal system. Cerebral cortex. Anatomy of the cortex. cortical cells. Evoked potentials, primary and secondary. Codification of the peripheral stimuli. Somatotopy cortex. Pain. Central representation of the pain. Analgesia. Motor systems. Circuitry of motor systems. Spinal cord, thalamus, cortical areas. Interneurons. Motor pathways. Motor neurons. Basal ganglia. efferent and afferent connections. Parkinson's disease. Cerebellum. Anatomy of the cerebellum. Cellular organization. Afferents. Vestibular cerebellum : afferent and efferent. Spinalcerebellum: afferent and efferent, somatosensory information. Cerebralcerebellum. cerebellar diseases. Learning and memory. vegetative nervous system. conditioned reflexes.

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