Course Detail: PSYCI 603.pdf
Psychiatry 604: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (starting WT 2013)
Course Instructor: Dr. Esther Fujiwara
3 (fi 6) (second
term, 3-0-2). Seminar course with lectures and reading-based class
discussion on recent cognitive-affective neuroscience findings in
psychiatry. All psychiatric disorders are characterised by alterations
in emotions, thoughts and cognition, yet neuroscientific evidence to
corroborate and refine this observation
has only recently begun to be integrated
into psychiatric theory and research. Readings (updated annually) and
discussions will review neural manifestations of cognitive-affective
disturbances across and within mental illnesses. Following introductory
lecture sessions, students will review, analyze and discuss in class
recent neurocognitive findings in psychiatry. The goal of this course is
to promote a neurobiological understanding of cognitive-affective
changes within and across mental illnesses.
Prerequisites: PSY375 or NEURO 210 or PSY377 or consent of
the Department.
Psychiatry 688: Weekly Seminar (Grand Rounds)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Nick Mitchell
*0 (fi 2) (two terms, 0-1s-0). Restricted to Psychiatry Graduate Students
All
graduate students are expected to do at least one short (20 minutes)
presentation in the Department’s Grand Rounds lecture series during the
academic year. Each Grand Rounds addresses a specific topic (e.g.,
social phobia disorder) and the format is to offer two perspectives on
each topic. In most instances, a psychiatric resident will provide a
clinical perspective on the assigned topic, while the graduate student
assigned to that topic will assume a research-oriented perspective and
summarize the relevant empirical literature. These presentations will
not be in the student’s own area of research interest or expertise; the
objective is to have the student bring his or her analytic skills and
critical thinking to a different area of study. The presentations much
adhere to the department Grand Rounds template and the final
presentation must be submitted to the administrative assistant for the
Grand Rounds (Angelita Campbell) at least one day prior to the actual
presentation. The coordinator of the Grand Rounds series (Dr. Nicholas
Mitchell) will meet with the graduate student to discuss the topic and
mentor the graduate student in their presentation. A review of what
presenters have prepared must be submitted to the coordinator at least
two weeks prior to the Wednesday noon-hour sessions. Graduate students
will be asked to evaluate the presentations made by their peers, and an
award for the best graduate student presentation will be given out at
the annual Research Day.
Graduate students who are preparing for
their thesis defense will be asked to give a brief (20 minutes) Grand
Rounds presentation on their research; an additional presenter will be
scheduled the same day to comment on the clinical implications of the
research. The presentation of the thesis research in Grand Rounds
serves as a rehearsal for the student’s actual defense; in turn,
questions from the Grand Rounds audience serve as practice for questions
during the defense. For doctoral students, two presentations of their
own work in Grand Rounds are being considered for the schedule: one
would offer the conceptual background and proposed methods for the
research (earlier in the student’s program) and the second would be as
described above (at the completion of the study prior to the defense.