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PS6133: Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health
Semester 2 | Credits: 10
This module will serve as an introduction to the fields of neuropsychiatry & mental health. Contents will include psychiatric illness features, classification, course and treatment with respect to several of the major psychiatric disorders including mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis and schizophrenia. This module will heavily emphasise a neurobiological understanding of these disorders.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Be familiar with the fundamental illness features, course, diagnosis, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis and schizophrenia among other psychiatric illnesses.
- Identify and speak about some of the key biological theories and strategies currently used to study psychiatric brain disorders such as the mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis, and schizophrenia.
- Discuss and debate key contemporary issues and difficulties faced in translating neuroscience for improving clinical care.
- Demonstrate an intellectual command of the fundamentals of translational research in psychiatry
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- NUALA DONOHUE:
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- COLM MCDONALD:
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- GARY DONOHOE:
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- Ciara Egan:
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Reading List
- "Textbook of Psychiatry" by B.K. Puri, P.J. Laking, I.H. Treasaden
ISBN: 978-044307016.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone - "Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry" by David Semple, Roger Smyth
ISBN: 978-019923946.
Publisher: Oxford University Press - "Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" by Sir Michael Rutter, Dorothy Bishop, Daniel Pine, Stephen Scott, Jim S. Stevenson, Eric A. Taylor, Anita Thapar
ISBN: 978-140514549.
Publisher: Blackwell - "New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry" by Michael Gelder (Editor), Nancy Andreasen (Editor), Juan Lopez-Ibor (Editor), John Geddes (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199206698.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA - "Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications" by Stephen M. Stahl
ISBN: 97811076864.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.