Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Psychiatry and Mental Health
1
2023-2024
02038164
Neuroscience
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
- Expositive method, including theoretical and theoretical-practical classes, motivating the sudents to ask questions, doubts and comments on the themes, in order to stimulate the debate
- Discussion of real interactive clinical cases
- Seminars
- Critical reflection in groups on scientific articles.
Learning Outcomes
Introducing neurodevelopment diseases, and psychiatry and mental health, namely after drug abuse:
- Understanding the genetics of autism spectrum disorder and implications in clinical and translational research
- To know the pathologies acquired from neurodevelopment and cognitive and behavioral implications
- To analyze pre- and perinatal life and repercussion on brain development
- Recognize current research on neurodevelopmental pathologies
- Understand the psychopathology and epistemological / phenomenological foundations of psychiatry and associated neuroscientific domains
- To know the epidemiological and clinical characteristics, and the etiopathogenic mechanisms of mental diseases
- To know the principles of treatment of the main mental diseases
- Dissect the molecular, cellular and behavioral changes associated with CNS disorders triggered by drug abuse
- Contact with translational research in psychiatry and mental health.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Neurodevelopmental diseases (2 ECTS):
- Neurodevelopmental pathologies, including d. acquired and of pre and perinatal cause
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and genetics
- Sensory and brain disorders in development
- Investigation of executive function and social interaction
Psychiatry and mental diseases (2 ECTS):
- Psychiatry and neurosciences
- Diagnosis and early intervention in mental illness
- Biomarkers in mental illness
- Mood and psychotic disorders
- Anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders
- Translational research in psychiatry and mental illness
Drug abuse (2 ECTS):
- Addiction and mental illness
- Genetics, neurobiology and neuropharmacology of (new) psychoactive substances
- Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration associated with drugs of abuse
- Biochemical and structural alterations after drug abuse: neuroimaging studies
- Cerebrovascular impact of drug abuse
- Animal models of drug addiction.
Head Lecturer(s)
Ana Telma Fernandes Pereira
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%
Bibliography
- Capute AJ, Accardo JP (2008) Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood. 3rd Ed, Brookes Publishing.
- Oliveira G (2017) Neurodesenvolvimento e Comportamento. In:“Lições de Pediatria" Vol I, Oliveira G, Saraiva J, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, p 211-232.
- Arciniegas DB, Yudofsky SC, Hales RE (2018) The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 6th Ed. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
- Harrison P, Cowen P, Burns T, Fazel M (2017) Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 7th Ed, Oxford University Press.
- Macedo A, Pereira AT, Andrade J (2016) Perturbação Obsessivo-Compulsiva. O insustentável peso da dúvida. Lidel, Lisboa.
- Koob GF, Arends MA, Le Moal M (2014) Drugs, Addiction, and the Brain. Academic Press.
- Verster JC, Brady K, Galantes M, Conrod P (2012) Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness: causes, consequences and treatment. Springer Science and Bussiness Media.