PHYSCI M180ANeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
Physiological Science · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology M175A, Neuroscience M101A, and Psychology M117A.) Students must receive grade of C– or better to proceed to next course in series. Cellular neurophysiology, membrane potential, action potentials, and synaptic transmission. Sensory systems and motor system; how assemblies of neurons process complex information and control movement.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Chemistry 14C or 30A (14C may be taken concurrently), Life Sciences 7C, Physics 1B or 1BH or 5C or 6B.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSCI M180A
- CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules
- CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
- PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)
- PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
6 direct requisites. Showing 49 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSCI M180A
- PHYSCI C126Biological Clocks
- PHYSCI M145Neural Mechanisms Controlling Movement
- PHYSCI 263Neuronal Mechanisms Controlling Rhythmical Movements
- NEURBIO M200FCellular Neurophysiology
- PHYSCI 147Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- PHYSCI 173Anatomy and Physiology of Sense Organs
- NEURO M202Cellular Neurophysiology
- NEURO M230Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neural Integration
- NEURO CM272Neuroimaging and Brain Mapping
- PHYSCI 177Neuroethology
- PHYSCI M180CNeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
- NEUROSC M145Neural Mechanisms Controlling Movement
- PHYSCI M202Cellular Neurophysiology
- PHYSCI M272Neuroimaging and Brain Mapping
- PHYSCI 295ASeminar: Cellular Neuroscience
- PHYSCI 295BSeminar: Cellular Neuroscience
- PHYSCI 295CSeminar: Cellular Neuroscience
- PHYSCI C226Biological Clocks
- PHYSCI 245Neural Mechanisms Controlling Movement
12 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 19 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.