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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 the brain, from the cellular level to the nervous system itself.

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!", "Out of the fiery depths of hell comes a "Bawk!".

Rutter continued teaching in 13.1 at Carlisle, and the class was TA'd by Gabrielle Nichols, a former JHU CTYer(aka G-protein or GABA). This class consisted of the best people ever: Grace Lee, Alexis Onsi, Desiree Wright, Katie Goldstein, Shivani Gupta, Emily Chang, Julia Donovan, Ella Epstein, Karan Tandon, Connor Nash, AIDS (Aidan Bissel-Siders), James Mo, Sidd Kantamani, Nico Mandel, Kyle Watkins, and Nate Korb. While most of the class discussion seemed to be about cows and life in Maine, a fair bit about the brain and its cells was learned. The course is amazing and a lot of knowledge is gained about the anatomy, chemistry, and function of the brain. Rutter knows his shit, he has a PH.D in Neuroscience- many of us called him Doc for that. Great quotes continued from Rutter, such as "Oh right, right, I gotta get my heart beating again. Shit!", "Unmyelinated roller-coasters are slower", "I view the veggie display as a game of Jenga", "Pushing the fold", and "My uterus tingles thinking about it...I guess you didn't know". An epidemic of pokemon addiction hit the class and for the last three days, everyone in class was obsessed with playing pokemon on smartphones. Also, the card game of "Pres" was a classic- it was played during all breaks and a large portion of study hall. "Stay alive it's the fourth of July" became the inside joke of the class along with shouting "AIDS" whenever Aidan talked. Also, whenever Josh the T.A (or whatever he is) would appear, everyone would yell "Classic Josh". Take Neuro- It truly is amazing.