Advanced Neuroscience Psychiatry

Catalog description

This course provides a detailed review of the neuroscience model beginning with neuroanatomy and neurophysiology (cells, circuits, neurotransmitters, receptors and signaling the nucleus, genetics, and epigenetics) followed by an exploration of how these structures and processes are modulated (hormonal actions in the brain, plasticity during maturation and adult development, immunity/i nflammation and bioelectric modulation) and finally how the neuroscience model contributes to our understanding of pain, pleasure, appetite, anger and aggression, sleep, sex, social attachment, memory, intelligence, attention, depression, anxiety schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Summative assignments will require each student to complete 24 hours of category one certified continuing medical education and obtain (for clinicians practicing in the USA) the US drug enforcement agency (DEA) buprenorphine waiver to prescribe medication - assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, and learners will conduct a comprehensive patient case review demonstrating a review of published treatment guidelines from evidence-based sources, and a masterful application of the neuroscience model to a current, or past patient/client under the learners’ care.