Neurobiology of Aging

This course traces how the brain physically changes with age and how those changes show up as shifts in memory, emotion, and movement, with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as the central case studies. You'll read primary literature alongside Ramachandran, Sacks, and Tanpınar, present papers in seminar style, sit two open-book exams, and produce a formatted research paper of your own. It sits on the clinical-neuroscience side of the NSC graduate track, pairing imaging and cellular evidence with humanistic accounts of aging to prepare you for translational research where the wet-lab findings have to map back onto an actual aging person.