Neurobiology of Disease

 


 
 
  Course Outline 2010

NOD Course Spring Term 2010
Location: M1441, Vollum Institute
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 a.m.

 
Introduction
 
March 29, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Introduction to the neurobiology of disease
March 31, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Clinical information gathering
 
Neurodegeneration (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease and Aging)
 
April 2, 2010 (Friday) 10:30 a.m. Overview of Alzheimer's and related dementias.
April 5, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Participants will interview and examine a patient with dementia.
April 7, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Posing a critical question: The status of amyloid hypothesis
April 9, 2010 (Friday) 10:30 a.m. Posing a critical question: Designing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.
April 12, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Gene therapy: cells and viruses
April 14, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. The nervous system in healthy and unhealthy aging.
April 16, 2010 (Friday)   NO CLASS
April 19, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Clinical Trials
April 21, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Overview of Parkinson's Disease
April 23, 2010 (Friday) 10:30 a.m. Patient interview.
 
Bypassing Repair - Neural Prostheses
 
April 26, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Posing a critical question: Is it easier to replace rather than repair the nervous system?
April 27, 2010 (Tuesday) 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Mini-symposium on Neural Prosthetics
SPECIAL DATE AND TIME
April 28, 2010 (Wednesday)   NO SESSION
April 30, 2010 (Friday)   Take home Mid-Term, No Class
 
Maladaptive Plasticity (Pain)
 
May 3, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. Overview of pain from the clinical perspective.
May 5, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Molecular approaches to chronic pain.
May 7, 2010 (Friday) 10:30 a.m. Journal Club
 
Neuronal-Glial Interactions (Multiple Sclerosis)
 
May 10, 2010 (Monday) 10:30 a.m. MS and demyelinating disease
May 12, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Patient Interview
May 14, 2010 (Friday) 10:30 a.m. NO CLASS
May 17, 2010 (Monday) 9 a.m. - Noon Jungers Center Symposium: Glial-neuronal interactions: implications for neurologic disease.
Jungers Center for Neurosciences Research News & Events
May 19, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Discussion of Jungers Center Symposium
May 21, 2010 (Friday)   NO CLASS
May 24 - May 28, 2010   CLINIC ROUNDS
Times to be arranged throughout the week to meet faculty and student schedules - see table.
May 31, 2010 (Monday)   NO CLASS - Memorial Day
June 2, 2010 (Wednesday) 10:30 a.m. Review of clinical rounds and course review
June 4, 2010 (Friday) 12 noon Mechanisms of aging in worms and mice (Andrew Dillin, Salk Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
SPECIAL TIME rescheduled from April 16