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ICOS-325 Disorders and Diseases of the Brain
This course uses a neuroscience approach to study disorders of the brain. It reviews basic concepts in neuroscience and provides an overview of functional neuroanatomy. This knowledge is then applied to examine the cellular and molecular underpinnings of various abnormalities of the nervous system. Discussions emphasize the relationship between basic neuroscience and physiological psychology - and what basic neural mechanisms can help us understand about higher brain processes (cognition, emotion, etc).
A special emphasis will be on comparing normal brain function to altered brain function in "disease" states, how disease states can be modeled (and importantly what aspects of disease can be modeled).
The course will involve lectures, student presentations, and discussion of primary literature.
This course is a joint venture of the Cognitive Science Program and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN), a Ph.D. program based in Georgetown's Medical Center. The course is developed and taught by a team of advanced Ph.D. students in the IPN, who are eager to share their work and their excitement about neuroscience with undergraduate students in the College.
Fall: will cover stress and homeostasis, reward and addiction (drugs, eating disorders), mood regulation (anxiety and depression) and attention, social behavior, and cognitive control (schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD), and sleep and arousal and psychopathology.
Spring: memory systems (Alzheimer's), motor systems (Parkinson's, Huntington's, Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Neural injury, prion disease, HIV-dementia, and epilepsy.
Fall is *not *a prerequisite for spring.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BIOL-003
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