Course Identification

Neurosurgeons, neurologists , psychiatrists and clinical neuroscientists will provide background to the major disorders of the nervous system . Lectures will be accompanied by presentation of clinical cases. In selected cases visits may be arranged to clinics and to the operating room. Lectures 2-11 may not be presented in that order. 

Lecture 1: Introduction to Clinical Neuroscience: Neurological examination and diagnostic tools in clinical neuroscience 

Lecture 2: Epilepsy 

Lecture 3: Parkinson's Disease

Lecture 4: Dementias including Alzheimer's Disease

Lecture 5: Neurovascular Disorders

Lecture 6: Intrinsic Brain Tumors

Lecture 7: Depression

Lecture 8: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Lecture 9: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Lecture 10: Pain Syndromes and Addiction

Lecture 11: Consciousness in Clinical Neuroscience

Lecture 12: Animal Models of CNS Diseases (I)

Lecture 13: Animal Models of CNS Diseases (II)

Lecture 14: Research Opportunities using invasive recordings and stimulation in neurosurgical patients

Lecture 15: Neuromodulation, brain-machine interfaces and the symbiosis of brains and AI

1. Understand the approach to the patient with neurological or neuropsychiatric disorder

2. Develop familiarity with the basic disorders of the brain encountered in clinical practice

3. Acquire the basis for communication with clinicians and patients with brain disorders

4. Develop basic understanding of the challenges in clinical neuroscience

5. Learn the principles of conducting basic neuroscience in a clinical environment

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