PHYSICS C186 · PHYS C186Neurophysics: Brain-Mind Problem
Physics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
How does mind emerge from brain? Provides summary of basic biophysics of neurons, synapses, and plasticity. Introduction to commonly used experimental and theoretical techniques of measuring, quantifying, and modeling neural activity, and their relative strengths and weakness and use of them to understand link between neural circuits, their emergent neural dynamics, and behavior in example model systems. Discussion of mechanisms of interaction between neural circuits and their role in cognition, learning, and sleep. Computer laboratory component where students learn to write simple codes to quantify neural activity patterns. Concurrently scheduled with course C286.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 1A, 1B, and 1C, or 5A, 5B, and 5C, or 6A, 6B, and 6C, Chemistry 14A or 20A, Mathematics 3A, 3B, 3C, 33A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.45 · from text- · "PHYSICS 6A" is not in this catalog version
- · "PHYSICS 6B" is not in this catalog version
- · "PHYSICS 6C" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "courses 1A, 1B, and 1C, or 5A, 5B, and 5C, or 6A, 6B, and 6C, Chemistry 14A or 20A, Mathematics 3A, 3B, 3C, 33A" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS C186
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
- PHYSICS 5APhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Mechanics and Energy
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 5BPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Thermodynamics, Fluids, Waves, Light, and Optics
- PHYSICS 5CPhysics for Life Sciences Majors: Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
12 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 44 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.