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.

GMA 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. 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. 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. 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. Human Neuro-psychology 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. 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. 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. 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. 1st sem.

GMS BN 797 Neuropsychological Assessment II
Continuation of GMS BN 796 Neuropsychological Assessment I. Kaplan. 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. 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. 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. On demand.

GMS BN 991, 992 Research in Behavioral Neuroscience variable cr