Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Part IA courses

MVST Part IA Functional Architecture of the Body

MVST Part IA Histology

MVST Part IA Homeostasis

MVST Part IA Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology

NST Part IA Physiology of Organisms

Part IB courses

MVST Comparative Vertebrate Biology

MVST (Medics) Human Reproduction

MVST (Vets) Neurobiology and Animal Behaviour

MVST (Medics) Neurobiology and Human Behaviour

MVST Veterinary Reproductive Biology

NST Neurobiology

NST Physiology

Special Option: Clinical & Applied Physiology

Special Option: Developmental Biology: Concepts to Clinic

Special Option: Sensorimotor Neurobiology

Part II courses

NST Part II PDN

NST Part II Biological & Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Physiology Subjects

Joint course in Physiology and Psychology

Neuroscience

Course Organiser: Dr R.J. Barnes (rjb4@cam.ac.uk)

Overview

The most important function of this course is to examine the physiology and integration of systems in health, and during some important diseases. This is essentially some of the basic science that you will need in order to understand some common conditions that you will meet in clinical or veterinary medicine. In particular the responses to exercise, to extreme environmental conditions and to major endocrine disorders will be explored.

The lectures will cover diabetes mellitus and the adrenal cortex, and will look at the responses of the body to extreme conditions presented by life in the arctic and the desert, during space flight, and when diving, dieting and starving.

Practical classes examine respiratory and cardiovascular responses to extreme conditions such as hypercapnia and facial immersion.

Method of assessment

This Option will be assessed by standard essay questions. Candidates will be required to choose two questions from five.