PHYSCI 146

Principles of Nervous System Development

Physiological Science · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Examination of construction of vertebrate nervous system as series of integrated steps beginning with several embryonic cells and culminating as complex highly ordered system. Topics include neurulation, regionalization, neurogenesis, migration, axonal outgrowth, and synapse formation.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 107 (or Neuroscience 102) and 111A (or M180A).

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one of

all of
- one of
  - PHYSCI 107
  - Neuroscience 102
- 111A
M180A

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

PHYSCI 146

PHYSCI 107Systems Anatomy
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
  - LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology1 more beneath
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus1 more beneath

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