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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
o
f Public Health

Brain and Behavior in Mental Disorders
330.623
Fourth Term
2008
 

Departmentl of Mental Health

COURSE DIRECTOR: Michelle C. Carlson, PhD
     Assistant Professor, Mental Health
     Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
     Core Faculty, Center on Aging and Health

 COURSE LOCATION:  250   Hampton House
COURSE TIME: 3:30 – 4:50 PM Mondays – Wednesdays   
INSTRUCTOR: Michelle C. Carlson, PhD

Office Hours: As needed, Tuesday, 2-3:30
OFFICE ADDRESS:  Center on Aging and Health
     2024 E. Monument Street
     Suite 2-700

OFFICE PHONE:  (410) 614-4887
OFFICE FAX:   (410) 614-9625
Email:    mcarlson@jhsph.edu

COURSE READINGS lISTED BELOW
Required readings are available via E-Reserves

Teaching Assistant: TBA
Email:  TBA

  

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Lecture
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Date

Lecture Topic

Instructor


1

March 24


Introduction to Course; Overview of the study of brain-behavior relationships through neuropsychological assessment

Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

2

March 26


Anatomy of the brain, and brain development

Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

3

March 31

Review of Neuropsychological Tests of Intelligence, Memory
education and other estimates of antecedent ability, cognitive reserve

Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

4

April 2

Exploring Brain Function and Connectivity

Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

5

April 7

Developmental disorders: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Autism

Fragmented Minds Presentation

Michelle Carlson, Ph.D. & Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D.

6

April 9

Risks in the Developing Brain with a Driver’s License: Head Injury and Recovery
Fragmented Minds Presentations

Michelle Carlson, Ph.D.

7

April 14

Brain Plasticity- Positive and Negative

Fragmented Minds Presentations

Michelle Carlson, Ph.D.

8

April 16

Vulnerability Expressed in Young Adulthood: Personality Disorders: depression, OCD, sociopathy


Michelle Carlson, Ph.D.

9

April 21

Bipolar
Stroke

Kay Redfield Jamison?

Elizabeth K. Tanner,  PhD, RN

10

April 23


The Aging Brain and Neuropsychological Test Demonstrations

Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

11

April 28

Heritable neuropathologies- Huntington’s disease
Videotaped case

Adam Rosenblatt, M.D.

12

April 30

Cognitive Reserve and How Measured  

13

May 5

Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Ola Selnes, Ph.D.

14

May 7


Inflammatory processes- Alzheimer’s disease


Michelle C. Carlson, Ph.D.

15

May 12

Integrating Discussion, Review


Michelle Mielke, Ph.D.

16

May 14


Final Examination


Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus

COURSE READINGS

-           Required readings are available via E-Reserves



             

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