NEUROBIOLOGY OF HUMAN DISEASE, NBIO 146A
SPRING 2007

Monday, Wednesday 2:10-3:30

Instructor:

Sacha Nelson, Bassine 240
Phone: 6-3181
email: nelson@brandeis.edu (preferred)

Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00-10:00, Friday 11-12 and by appt.

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Date
Topic
Lecturer
1
1/17
Introduction Sacha Nelson
2
1/22
Rett Syndrome I: Molecular mechanisms and treatments Adrian Bird
University of Edinburgh
3
1/24
Rett Syndrome II: Physiological mechanisms and patient presentation Sacha Nelson
Jillian and Jennifer Endres
4
1/29
Photoreceptor Disease Gordon Fain
UCLA
5
1/31
Tuberous Sclerosis Berardo Sabatini
Harvard Medical School
6
2/5
Timothy Syndrome Richard Tsien
Stanford University
7
2/7
Anxiety Disorders Sacha Nelson
8
2/12
Schizophrenia 1 David Lewis
9
2/14
Schizophrenia 2 John Lisman
10
2/26
Neural regeneration Larry Benowitz
Harvard Medical School
11
2/28
Epilepsy Sacha Nelson
12
3/5
Project meetings  
13
3/7
Amblyopia and visual development Sacha Nelson
14
3/12
Addiction I: basic reward mechanisms Julie Kauer
Brown University
15
3/14
Addiction II: tolerance, withdrawal and circuits Sacha Nelson
16
3/19
Huntington Disease I: molecular mechanisms Sacha Nelson
17
3/21
Huntington Disease II: circuits and motor control Sacha Nelson
18
3/26
Major Affective Disorders I Sacha Nelson
19
3/28
Major Affective Disorders II Sacha Nelson
20
4/11
Alzheimer's Disease Dennis Selkoe
Harvard Medical School
21
4/16
Neurooncology Nicole Ullrich
Harvard Medical School
22
4/18
Dietary treatments for epilepsy Gary Yellen
Harvard Medical School
23
4/23
Fragile X Syndrome Mark Bear
MIT
24
4/25
Parkinson's Disease Peter Lansbury
Harvard Medical School
25
4/30
Brain stimulation for neuropsychiatric disorders Karl Deisseroth
Stanford University
26
5/2
Project poster presentations  

 

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