Neuroscience

Catalog description

The Neuroscience course spans nine weeks and contains fifteen clinical presentations that reflect commonly encountered situations affecting the nervous system. The course is focused on providing students with a detailed understanding of normal structure, function, physiology, and pathologic dysfunction of the nervous system and special senses. Depending on the week, 1 to 3 clinical presentations will be covered, each one of them accompanied by clinical algorithms, clinical reasoning guides, and detailed objectives lists. Clinical faculty will lead the students through the clinical presentation emphasizing critical decision points and setting the framework for the integration of the basic and clinical sciences. Following the clinical presentation, basic science faculty will present the fundamental principles from the traditional basic sciences (e.g., anatomy, histology, embryology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, pharmacology, skills required to arrive at…