| Date |
Topic |
Text |
Instructor |
| 09/02 |
Introduction
Defining Mental Illlness |
Ch 1-3 & 7 |
Langfitt |
| Unit 1: Basic Concepts of Neurotransmitter Function |
| 09/07 |
Labor Day: No Class |
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| 09/09 |
Chemical Messenger Systems
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pp. 75-86 & review basic brain organization pp. 41-75
Deutch & Roth 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 09/14 |
Mechanisms Mediating Transmitter Effects
Transduction |
Girault & Greengard 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 09/16 |
Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity |
Ch 5
Nestler & Hyman 2009; Hyman & Nestler 2009; McGill & Zoghbi 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 09/21 |
Hormone: Brain Interactions & Stress-Responsive Neural Mechanisms |
McEwen 2006; Bear, Connors, & Paradiso |
Kellogg |
| Unit 2: Neurobiology of Psychoses |
| 09/23 |
The Major Psychoses |
Ch 8, pp. 186-197
First 2009 |
Langfitt |
| 09/28 |
Neurobiology of Psychoses
Take-home Problem Set Due |
pp. 197-210
Lewis & Volk 2009; Abi-Dargham 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 09/30 |
Clinical Management of Psychoses |
pp. 210-214
Tamminga 2009 |
Langfitt |
| Unit 3: Mood Disorders |
| 10/05 |
Fall Break: No Class |
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| 10/07 |
Classification of Mood Disorders |
Ch 9, pp. 215-234
Ghaemi & Goodwin 2009 |
Langfitt |
| 10/12 |
Neurobiology of Mood Disorders |
Ch 9, 234-246
Catapano, et al. 2009; Duman 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 10/14 |
Clinical Management of Mood Disorders |
Ch 9, pp. 246-252
Berman et al. 2009 |
Langfitt |
| Unit 4: Anxiety Disorders |
| 10/19 |
Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders |
McEwen 2009; Garakani et al. 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 10/21 |
Classification of Anxiety Disorders
Take-home Exam Over Units 2 & 3 Due |
Ch 11
Stein & Bienvenu 2009 |
Langfitt |
| 10/26 |
Clinical Management of Anxiety Disorders |
pp. 311-314
Mathew et al. 2009 |
Langfitt |
| Unit 5: Substance Abuse |
| 10/28 |
Neural Basis of Addiction |
Nestler 2009; Wise 2000; O'Brien & Dackis 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 11/01 |
Drug Abuse & the Developing Brain |
Rubenstein & Anderson 2009; Lester & Kosofsky 2009 |
Kellogg |
| 11/04 |
In-Class Exam Over Units 4 & 5 |
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| Unit 6: Neurodegenerative Disorders |
| 11/09 |
Neural Mechanisms of Cell Death |
Mattson 2006 |
Kellogg |
| 11/11 |
Clinical Description (and Management) of Basal Ganglia Disorders |
Sethi 2002; Walker 2007; Como 2006 |
Langfitt |
| 11/16 |
Neuropathology of Basal Ganglia & Cortical Degenerative Disorders |
Liu, Gao, & Hong 2003; Wichmann & DeLong 2006; Imarisio et al. 2008; Wong, Li, & Price 2006 |
Kellogg |
| 11/18 |
Clinical Description & Management of Cortical Degenerative Disorders |
Ch 10
Kaufer & DeKosk 2009
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Langfitt |
| 11/23 |
In-Class Exam Over Unit 6 |
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| 11/25 |
No Class: Thanksgiving Recess |
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| Unit 7: Concluding Issues to Consider |
| 11/30 |
Epilepsy: A Model Neuropsychiatric Syndrome? |
Guerrini 2006; Hermann & Whitman 1991; Joels 2009 |
Langfitt |
| 12/02 |
Issues of Genetic Risk |
Hayden 2000; Hall & Rich 2000 |
Langfitt |
| 12/07 |
Sex-related Neurobiology & Risk |
Morris, Jordan, & Breedlove 2004; Cahill 2005; DeVries 2004 |
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| 12/09 |
Development & Evaluation of Treatments
Take-Home Final Handed Out |
Williams & Wilkins 1998; Zubieta & Stohler 2009; Institute of Medicine 2009 |
Langfitt |
| 12/17 |
Take-Home Final Exam Due by 4:00 PM |
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