PSYCH M117ANeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Cellular and Systems Neuroscience
Psychology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology M175A, Neuroscience M101A, and Physiological Science M180A.) 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.
PSYCH M117A
- 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.
PSYCH M117A
- PSYCH M117CNeuroscience: From Molecules to Mind—Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYCH 119ANeuropsychopharmacology of Emotion and Cognition
- PSYCH 119BHow Brains Learn to Construct Models of Environment
- PSYCH 119CCognitive Neuroscience
- PSYCH 119DLearning in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks
- PSYCH 119IIntegration of Face and Brain
- PSYCH 119JBrain Bugs: Understanding Brain through Its Flaws
- PSYCH M119LHuman Neuropsychology
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 9 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.