Behavioral
Neuroscience
List of Courses
GMS BN 775 Human
Neuropsychology I
Prereq: consent of instructor. Relationship of the field of neuropsychology
to other medical and scientific disciplines. Includes electrical activity
of the brain, the study of consciousness and emotions, cerebral dominance,
and the pathologies of language. Oscar-Berman, staff. 1st sem.
GMS
BN 776 Human Neuropsychology II
Prereq: consent of instructor. Relationship of the field of neuropsychology
to other medical and scientific disciplines. Includes psychiatric aspects
of neurological disease and the pathologies of memory, intelligence,
perception, and motor function. Oscar-Berman, staff. 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 777 Basic Neurosciences
This course is the same as GMS BN 778 (4 cr) and GMS BN 779 (2 cr),
providing with students with 30 hours or required course time. For Mental
Health and Behavioral Medicine students. Oscar-Berman. 3 cr,
1st sem.
GMS
BN 778 Basic Neurosciences Survey
Prereq: consent of instructor. Overview to include neurophysiology,
neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, neurobehavior, and neuropsychopharmacology.
Processes occurring at the cellular and physiological levels are related
to known central nervous system dysfunction. May not be taken concurrently
with GMS BN 779. Oscar-Berman, staff.
3
cr, 1st sem.
GMS
BN 779
Beginning Basic Neurosciences
Prereq: consent of instructor. Overview to include neurophysiology,
neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, neurobehavior, and neuro-psychopharmacology.
Processes occurring at the cellular and physiological levels are related
to known central nervous system dysfunction. May not be taken concurrently
with GMS BN 778. Oscar-Berman, staff. 2 cr, 1st & 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 780
Behavioral and Biological Aspects of Stress and
Trauma
Prereq: consent of instructor. This course provides an overview
of theory and research on stress and trauma, with attention to biological,
psychological, and social factors. Special emphasis placed on gender
issues, developmental factors, psychopathology, and physical health.
Keane, staff. 2 cr, on demand.
GMS
BN 782
Forensic Practice in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience
Prereq: Human Neuropsychology course of some other introduction to
the study of brain-behavior relations, consent of instructor. This
course is taught by both neuroscience and legal professionals and will
provide students with an introduction to the emerging role in the courtroom
and judicial proceedings of research and clinical findings from the
behavioral neurosciences. Oscar-Berman, staff. 4cr, 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 793
Adult Neurologic Communication Disorders
Prereq: consent of instructor. An overview of acquired, adult
neurologic communication disorders for purposes of identification and
differential diagnosis. Discussion of the neuronanatomical bases for
communication (within a cognitive framework) will be followed by a review
of aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, alexia, agraphia, stuttering, palilalia,
and mutism, as well as disorders associated with right hemisphere strokes,
closed head injury, and progressive diseases. Helm-Estabrooks, Albert.
4 cr, 1st sem.
GMS
BN 794 Brain Asymmetry: Functional and
Structural Differences Between Hemispheres
Prereq: consent of instructor. The distinctive roles of the left
and right hemispheres are reviewed; first by examining alterations in
language and nonverbal behavior under conditions of brain damage; and
second, by examining techniques used to investigate functional asymmetry
in the normally intact brain. 4 cr, 1st sem.
GMS
BN 795 Neuropsychology of Perception and
Memory
Prereq: consent of instructor. The study of normal and abnormal
perception and memory is related to brain structure and function. Verfaellie.
4 cr, 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 796
Neuropsychological Assessment I
Prereq: consent of instructor. Overview of structure and function
of the central nervous system. Emphasis on quantitative and qualitative
analyses of standardized and experimental tests of cognitive functions
useful in differential diagnosis of neurological syndromes. Kaplan.
4 cr, 1st sem.
GMS
BN 797
Neuropsychological Assessment II
Continuation of GMS BN 796 Neuropsychological Assessment I. Kaplan.
4 cr, 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 798
Functional Neuroanatomy in Neuropsychology
Prereq: consent of instructor. Overview of central nervous system,
structure and function; basic understanding of neurobehavioral symptoms
and their relationship to neuropathology, including vascular infections,
and congenital, degenerative, and toxic insults to the central nervous
system. Appropriate for psychologists, speech pathologists, or other
students in the behavioral sciences. LaVecchia. 4 cr, either
sem.
GMS
BN 821
Seminar in Neuroimaging
Prereq: consent of instructor. Overview of neuroimaging techniques
available as adjuncts to neuropsychological measures of human brain
damage. Oscar-Berman, staff. 2 cr, on demand.
GMS
BN 891, 892 Case Studies in Neuropsychology
Prereq: consent of instructor. Individual patients with percep-tual/cognitive/affective
symptomatology concommitant with brain damage are examined intensively
through the use of a variety of behavioral assessment procedures. Test
results are reviewed for the differential diagnosis of neurological
syndromes. Emphasis on qualitative and quantitative analyses of standardized
and experimental tests. Albert, White, Verfaellie. 2 cr, 1st
& 2nd sem.
GMS
BN 893 Child Clinical Neuropsychology
Prereq: con-sent of instructor. Covers general theoretical issues,
e.g., intrauterine and postnatal development of the brain, handedness
and lateralization of function, and recovery of function and neurobehavioral
plasticity; diagnostic entities, e.g., attention deficit disorder, effects
of early brain damage, developmental language disorders, dyslexia, and
effects of malnutrition; and assessment and treatment. Kinsbourne,
Kaplan. 4 cr, on demand.
GMS
BN 991, 992 Research in Behavioral Neuroscience
var cr
