ANTALYA BİLİM
UNIVERSITY
Course Information Package
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Explains the functions of all cells, tissues, organs and systems in the body in healthy individuals (for the maintenance of life) |
| LO2 | Defines the physical and chemical factors that ensure development from the beginning of life |
| LO3 | Explains the communication and interaction between the parts of the organism (cell-tissue-organ-system) |
| LO4 | Explains the relationship of the organism with the environment as a whole |
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | Definition and information about the course |
| 2 | Definition of physiology, information about tissues, organ systems (epithelium, support, ligament, cartilage and bone, blood-lymph, muscle and nerve tissues). |
| 3 | Internal environment, homeostasis, regulation of body functions, body control systems, negative and positive feedback, examples related to birth processes. |
| 4 | Cell physiology, transport through cell membranes and body fluids |
| 5 | Nervous system, neurons and their classification, types of nerve fibers, axon regeneration, myelin sheath, neuroglia and their types. Development and migration of neurons in the embryo period. |
| 6 | Electrical activity in nerve fibers, Nerst potential, action potential and its stages, refractory period in nerve, all or nothing law, propagation of stimulus in nerve fibers, synaptic transmission, synapse, electrical and chemical synapses. |
| 7 | Cerebral spinal fluid and its functions, formation of cerebrospinal fluid, composition of spinal fluid, blood-brain barrier, membranes of brain and medulla spinalis. Thalamus, limbic system-amygdala, hippocampus, motivation, hypothalamus and its functions, changes in the body during pregnancy, information on maternal love. Basal ganglia and their functions. |
| 8 | Stress and sleep physiology of the nervous system, definition of stress, classification of stressors, stress stages, mechanisms of action of stress hormones, brain waves, sleep and patterns, non-rem sleep phases, characteristics of rem sleep, EGG, EMG, EOG during sleep, quality of sleep throughout life, functions of sleep, state of the cortex during sleep, control centers of sleep-wakefulness in the brain, neural mechanisms of sleep, sleep disorders, coma, brain death and cerebral circulation related to these processes. Sleep process in infants. |
| 9 | Convergence and divergence, summation and occlusion, inhibition in synapses, presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibition, neurotransmitters. |
| 10 | Central nervous system and its elements functions, brain and lobes, cerebral cortex functions, medulla spinalis and its functions, development of central nervous system in embryo period, organization of medulla spinalis for sensory and motor functions, spinal reflexes. Information on reflex development in newborn babies. |
| 11 | Sensory physiology, developmental processes of sensory organs, sense of vision, related auxiliary organs of the eye, structural features of the eye, how vision occurs, visual defects. sense of hearing and balance, hearing organ and mechanisms, balance mechanisms, hearing disorders. |
| 12 | Physiology of the sense of smell, vomeronasal organ and its functions, smell disorders, physiology of the sense of taste and taste disorders. classification of senses, skin physiology and its functions, sensory receptors in the skin |
| 13 | Muscle physiology, muscle development processes, common properties of muscle tissue, other properties of muscle tissue, action potential, skeletal muscle organization, thin, thick filaments, neuromuscular junction, motor unit, muscle contraction, sliding filament theory, types of contractions, types of muscle fibers. |
| 14 | Formation of voluntary muscle contraction, muscle contraction control and muscle receptors, exercise and muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth muscles, dentate tetanus and tetanus, Rigor mortis, contraction duration and Shaky curve, muscle metabolism, Cori cycle, oxygen starvation, types of contractions. |
| Activity | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 2.00 | 28.00 |
| Pre-Class Individual Study | 14 | 1.00 | 14.00 |
| Midterm Exam/Preparation | 7 | 2.00 | 14.00 |
| Final Exam/Preparation | 14 | 2.00 | 28.00 |
| Total Workload (Hours) | 84 | ||
| ECTS Credit (Workload / 25) | 3 | ||
| # | Assessment Type | Contribution (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midterm Exam | %20 |
| 2 | Homework | %20 |
| 3 | Final Exam | %60 |
| TOTAL | %100 | |
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| # | Method Name | Description | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lecture (expository teaching), interactive discussion | Listening and taking notes. | Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools (projector, computer, digital presentations) |
| 2 | Controversial Course | Listening and comprehension, critical thinking | Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools, projector, computer, overhead projector |
