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HU Credits:
6
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
psychology
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Leon Deouell
Coordinator Office Hours:
Sunday 16:00-17:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Leon Deouell
Prof Eli Wertman
Course/Module description:
Advanced course in cognitive neuropsychology. The course examines the functional and neuroantomical bases of prevalent neuropsychological deficits,in a critical way.
Course/Module aims:
To expose the students to the state-of-the-art knowledge in neuropsychology, such that they can apply this for evidence-based research and clinical application.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Discuss the global organization of the central nervous system in terms of networks and hierarchies;
Describe the cognitive phenomenology and functional neuroanatomy of the main neuropsychological deficits;
Compare the cognitive effects of different neuro-degenerative diseases
Discuss the underlying premises of cognitive neuropsychology and their limitations;
Explain the cardinal methods in cognitive neuropsychological research and their limitations
Attendance requirements(%):
90
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures, Presentation of papers by students, Discussions, Clinic visists
Course/Module Content:
• Terms and underlying assumptions in cognitive neuropsychology
• Research methods
o Functional dissociations and double dissociations
o Structure-function correlations: the lesion effect method
o Functional imaging
o Modularity and Netowrks in the brain
• Functional Neuroanatomy
• Unilateral Neglect
o Phenomenology and cognitive models
o neural models
o prognosis and rehabilitation
• Visual recognition and Agnosia
• Language and aphasia
• Memory systems and amnesia
• Motor Control and Apraxia
• Executive functions and prefrontal cortex
o Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
o Orbitofrontal cortex
• Neuropsychology of ageing
• Neuropsychology of Dementia
Alzheimer disease, Frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia
• Emotional systems
• Mechanisms of recovery and rehabilitation
Required Reading:
See Moodle
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 10 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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