IGSIN course

Course information (next course in October 2012, information is preliminary)

Teaching language:

English. If all participants and teachers are native Norwegian/Scandinavian speakers, the course will be presented in a Scandinavian language.

Organisation:

Thirty hours of lectures, demonstrations and/or laboratory work. The teaching is done concentrated during 2 weeks (5-6 hours per day). The course will have a problem-oriented focus. The students are expected to participate during the whole teaching period. The course is given once a year.

Goal:

The course is intended to give the students a basic and integrated understanding of the interplay between neurobiological systems and cognition, affect and behaviour. They are also assumed to get an introduction to basic central methods in neuroscience. 

Specific goals:

During the course the students are introduced to neurobiological systems like for example, neuroanatomy  and neurophysiology. They will be introduced to neuromolecular mechanisms, neuropharmacology. Important psychiatric and neuropsychological clinical conditions, and normal psychological functions will be described and methods for measuring these will be demonstrated.

Student qualifications:

The course is obligatory for students accepted by IGSIN. It is assumed that the students take the course during the first year at the programme. The students at IGSIN has priority to take the course. For other applicants relevant qualification at Master-level is required. Applicants can have a relevant background in medicine, psychology, biology, information science, linguistics etc.

Student evaluation:

Essay focused on integrative perspectives on neuro-anatomical, physiological, chemical and psychological aspects of mental diseases and normal functions.

Recommended literature:

Bear,M.F., Connors,B.W. Paradiso,M.A. (2007). Neuroscience. Exploring the brain. (3ed), Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams and Williams.
Chapters: 1, 5-7, 15, 18, 20-25.

About 400 pages

Programme 2011

 
08.15-09.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Welcome and presentation of the course  - Håkan Sundberg

09.15-12.00 Clinical neuropsychology - Astri Lundervold

13.15-16.00 demo. neuropsychol. tests  -Astri Lundervold

09.15 - 11.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Neuropsychiatry Schizofrenia:  - Johnsen

12.15 - 15.00  BB-building conference room  Basic Neurophysiology  - Clive Bramham

09.15 - 10.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Psychopharmacogenetics and functional genomics - Stephanie Le Hellard,

10.15.-12.00 BB-building 9. floor room 110 Neurotransmission  - Jan Haavik,

13.15 - 16.00 BB-building 9. floor room 110 Demo. Gene expression in CNS  - Stephanie Le Hellard

09.15 - 11.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Basic Neuropsychitatry: Depression, Anders Lund

13.15-15.00 BB-building 9. floor room 110 Psychiatric genetics, with focus on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders  - Stephanie Le Hellard

09.15-12.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 , Basic Neuroanatomy  - Boleslaw Srebro

13.15 - 16.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Dissection of Brain. Demo -  Boleslaw Srebro

10.15 - 12.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Human el.Physiol: EEG/ERP  - Tom Eichele

13.15-15.00 to be announced Demo of in vivo reg in the rat/EEG-ERP, group 1  - Tom Eichele

15.15.-17.00 Demo of in vivo reg in the rat/EEG-ERP, group 2 - Clive Bramham

 
09.15 - 12.00 BB- building 9. room 110  Brain imaging: fMRI/PET  - Karsten Specht

13.15.-16.00 BB-building 9. floor conference room Neurocognition: learning, attention and executive. functions  - Kenneth Hugdahl

10.15-12.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 Emotion, affect and the brain  - Håkan Sundberg,

13.15-15.00 BB- building 9. floor room 110 The neuroscience of memory - Kristiina Kompus

15.30-16.30 Demo - fMRI, -  Karsten Specht

10.15 - 12.00 BB- BB- building 9. floor room 109 Lunch and evaluation of the course  - Håkan Sundberg

Recommended litterature
Bear,M.F., Connors,B.W. Paradiso,M.A. (2007). Neuroscience. Exploring the brain. (3ed), Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams and Williams.
Chapters: 1, 5-7, 15, 18, 20-25.

Student web site: http://connection.lww.com/products/bear3e/src.asp
Course website: http://watson.uib.no

Registration/Partisipants

Registration to: Vivian.Fosse@psybp.uib.no

Deadline for registration is the 20th of September 2012.

The list of registered course participants 2012