PSYCH-792 Introduction to Neuropsychology and the Clinical Neurosciences
Neuropsychology is the study of the affective, behavioral and cognitive consequences of brain injury, and clinical neuropsychology is the professional discipline that deals with the methods and techniques of assessing the consequences of brain insult. Clinical neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the scientific study of fundamental mechanisms that underlie diseases and disorders of the brain and central nervous system. It seeks to develop new ways of diagnosing such disorders and ultimately of developing novel treatments. This course will take the assumption that a good way to become a biologically informed practitioner of clinical psychology, is to participate in systematic instruction and learning in neuropsychology and the clinical neurosciences. In psychology graduate school, you are also becoming the culturally informed clinician, the developmentally informed clinician, and so forth. Toward that goal the reading and lecture materials for Psychology 792 will bring together the fields of neuroanatomy and functional neuroanatomy, neurobehavioral syndromes, cellular mechanisms of the central nervous system, behavior genetics including epigenetics, and psychopharmacology.
Prerequisite
Restricted to Doctoral students only, except by permission of program director and instructor.
Offered
Fall