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sageorge — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:16:11 +0000

Stephen A. George Thursday, 2/24/2011, at 1:16 PM

Amherst College Neurobiology of Disease Course

Revised 3/28/11

Support for guest faculty was provided by the Class of '62 Fink Symposium Fund and the Amherst Lecture Committee.

	Date	Topic
T	Jan. 24	Course Introduction	Prof. George
Th	26	Review: neuroanatomy	Prof. George
T	February 1	Review: neuronal cell biology	C. Wright, A. Salinero, K. Woodhouse,A. Goldblatt, A. Thaler, V. Zhu
Th	3	Neuropathology	*Dr. Robert Ferrante*
T	8	Addiction background	G. Front, A. Handler, A Soto
Th	10	Quiz	(4:30 Neuroscience comprehensives)
T	15	Clinical research background	E. Fink, C. Wright
Th	17	Addiction	Prof. G.
T	22	Alzheimer’s background	A. Brown, S. Keating, J. Ntim
Th	24	Issues in clinical research	Prof. G. (4:30 Neuro. comprehensives)
T	March 1	Huntington’s background	B. Smith, J. Mooney, E. Fan, E. Fink
Th	3	Alzheimer's Disease	*Dr. Joanna Jankowsky `90*
T	8	Quiz
Th	10	Huntington’s disease	*Dr. Robert Ferrante*
	Spring break
T	22	Epilepsy background	B. High, E. Stein, A. Thaler
Th	24	Channelopathies/ALS	*Dr. Robert Brown, Jr. `69*
T	29	Parkinson's background	P. Riva, G. Li, R. Dago
Th	31	Epilepsy	*Dr. Autumn Klein `93*
T	April 5	Autism background	R. Dago, K. Ereme, A. Salinero
Th	7	Parkinson's Disease	Prof. G.
T	12	Quiz	Evening presentations
Th	14	Autism	A. Soto, A. Handler, B. High
T	19	Multiple sclerosis background	A. Goldblatt, K. Woodhouse, E. Matute
Th	21	Misc. topics	P. Riva, G. Li, J. Bass, R. Tsai
T	26	Ataxia telangiectasia	E. Stein, K. Ereme, V. Zhu
Th	28	Multiple sclerosis	*Dr. Robert Fox ‘91*
T	May 3	Neuro-AIDS	J. Ntim, J. Jones, E. Fan
Th	5	Film: "Awakenings"