Neuroscience '07 at RWJMS

Course Director, Nancy L. Hayes, Ph.D. (e-mail: neuro@umdnj.edu)
Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Last updated on January 27, 2007

Week 34 (continued from Block II)

Monday, 4/2/07

Wednesday, 4/4/07

Examination II

1:30-3:30 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall

Lecture: Demyelinating and dysmyelinating diseases (Cassacia)

Patient presentation: MS

WEAR YOUR WHITE COAT
Students will not be admitted to the lecture hall after the patient arrives.

Week 35
Monday, 4/9/07		Thursday, 4/12/07
8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Autonomic nervous system (Nowakowski) Purves: Ch. 20 Blumenfeld: Ch. 17 Handout Presentation	1:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Epilepsy (Casaccia) Purves: Ch. 24 Box D Blumenfeld: pp. 790-798 Handout Presentation
9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Limbic System (Nowakowski) Purves: Ch. 28, Ch. 30 (Memory) Bumenfeld: Ch. 18 Handout Presentation	2:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Sleep (Casaccia) Purves: Ch. 27 Blumenfeld: pp. 598-601 Handout Presentation

Week 36
Monday, 4/16/07		Wednesday, 4/18/07
8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Development of the CNS with emphasis on key events underlying CNS disorders, sexual dimorphism (Nowakowski) Purves: Ch. 21, 29, Ch. 23 critical periods Handout Presentation	9:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Autism (DiCicco-Bloom) Presentation
9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Neurogenetics (Guest lecture: Dr. William Johnson, Department of Neurology, RWJMS) Presentation	10:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Review and discussion of developmental problems (Staff) Clinical Case Studies

Week 37
Monday, 4/23/07		Wednesday, 4/25/07
8:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Maturation and normal aging of the CNS (Matise) Handout	9:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Infectious diseases of the CNS; environmental caused of CNS disorders (Crockett) Purves: Ch. 18 Box A Handout Presentation
9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's (Matise) Purves. Ch. 30 Box D Blumenfeld: pp. 873-875 Handout Presentation Optional Readings	10:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Addiction and the reward pathways (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 6 Box A and F Handout Presentation

Week 38
Monday, 4/30/07		Wednesday, 5/2/07
8:30 -10::30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Higher cognitive function, speech and language (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 25 Blumenfeld: Ch. 19 Handout Presentation	9:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Schizophrenia (Hayes) Purves: Ch. 6 Box E Handout Presentation
		10:00 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Mood Disorders: Depression and Anxiety (Alder) Purves: pp. 704-705 Handout Presentation Woodward et al. 2006. Decreased anterior cingulate volume in combat-related PTSD. Biol Psychiatry 59: 582-7. Optional: Hammad et al. 2006. Suicidality in pediatric patients treated with antidepressant drugs. Arch Gen Psychiatry 63: 332-9.

Week 39
Monday, 5/7/07		Wednesday, 5/9/07
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 Rooms C1-C12	CLINICAL CASE CONFERENCE III: Visual and limbic systems, higher cognitive functions Blumenfeld: Ch. 10, 11, 18, 19. Review the material in these chapters that was covered in lectures. (This helps prepare you for the Final exam as well as the Conference.) Begin studying the clinical cases at the end of each chapter -- focusing on those structure/function relationships which we have covered in the entire course. The cases in the Clinical Conference will come from these chapters Small groups: ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED (1% of total grade)	8:30a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Plasticity and phantom limbs: Experience and Modification of Brain Architecture and Function (Nowakowski) Purves: Ch. 24, Ch. 9 Box D, Ch. 22 Box B Handout. Presentation The focus of this lecture will be on the following two papers. Ramachandran VS, Rogers-Ramachandran D., 2000. Phantom limbs and neural plasticity. Arch Neurol. 57(3):317-20. Altschuler EL, Wisdom SB, Stone L, Foster C, Galasko D, Llewellyn DM, Ramachandran VS, 1999. Rehabilitation of hemiparesis after stroke with a mirror. Lancet. 353(9169):2035-6. An optional paper:Ramachandran VS and Hirstein W, 1998. The perception of phantom limbs. The D. O. Hebb lecture. Brain 1998 Sep;121 (Pt 9):1603-30 .
		9:30 a.m. Main Lecture Hall	Lecture: Course wrap up and review (Hayes)

Week 40
Wednesday, 5/16/07
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Main Lecture Hall	Final Examination (Main Lecture Hall) -- 33% of total grade The Final exam is cumulative, particularly with respect to the clinical case studies.