NEURO M202
Cellular Neurophysiology
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 1 discussion. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 13 hours ago.
Also listed as NEURBIO M200F (closed by the department, standing limit), PHYSCI M202 (closed by the department): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
3.88
Average grade awarded in NEURO M202. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
89%
of the 131 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 131 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.72 to 3.95.
Historical grades for SAMPATH, ALAPAKKAM P, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 42 · 56.8%
- A 26 · 35.1%
- A- 1 · 1.4%
- B+ 1 · 1.4%
- B 4 · 5.4%
Percentages are of the 74 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE BIASE, LINDSAY M reviews ↗ | 3.88 | 3.88 | 131 | 5 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
| KHAKH, BALJIT S reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 74 | 3 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| O'DELL, THOMAS J reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 74 | 3 | 93% | - | not teaching it |
| SAMPATH, ALAPAKKAM P reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.93 | 74 | 3 | 93% | - | Open, 12 seats left |
| OLCESE, RICCARDO reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.92 | 46 | 2 | 91% | - | not teaching it |
| ABDEREMANE ALI, FAYAL reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.95 | 28 | 1 | 96% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 7 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before NEURO M202. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B, LIFESCI 30B, MATH 3B, PHYSCI 111A, and PHYSCI 166, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Neurobiology M200F and Physiological Science M202.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: Physiological Science 111A (or M180A or Physics 5C), 166. Advanced course in cellular physiology of neurons. Action and membrane potentials, channels and channel blockers, gates, ion pumps and neuronal homeostasis, synaptic receptors, drug-receptor interactions, transmitter release, modulation by second messengers, and sensory transduction. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open12 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 13 of 25 enrolled
Instructor
Sampath, A.P., de Biase, L.M., Abderemane Ali, F., Kim, K., and O'Dell, T.J.
3.92Predicted GPA
Historical records for SAMPATH, ALAPAKKAM P; 74 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to the discussion below.
1 discussion, all open.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 1 discussion
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Open
12 seats left.
13 of 25 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 23 and 30 a term over 5 terms, summer excluded, most recently 28 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking NEURO M202 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Sampath, A.P., de Biase, L.M., Abderemane Ali, F., Kim, K., and O'Dell, T.J. · 13 of 25 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, freed 3 seats.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.