Clinical Neuroscience I

Catalog description

This course focuses on clinical and pathological aspects of neural processes associated with mental activity, cognitive function, emotional states, and social behavior. This course covers relationships between biological processes (on the level of genes, hormones, and neural processes) and psychopathology as it is represented in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2013, 5th ed.).The course will focus on neurocognitive and neuropsychological disorders associated with major brain pathologies and disorders. The course will discuss etiologies pertaining to Addiction/Substance Use Disorders, Delirium, Major Neurocognitive Disorders & Mild Neurocognitive Disorder. We will also discuss Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Vascular Disorders, and Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and HIV infection. The disorders will also underscore pathologies associated with aggression, violence and forensic populations.