This course will focus on early onset neurodevelopmental disorders, the underlying brain mechanisms, early environmental and genetic risk factors, and later patterns of normal and deviant behaviour. After this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the clinical features of neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on such as ADHD and ASD.
- Understand the association between brain development and early onset neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Understand the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to early brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders (at levels of quantitative genetics, molecular genetics, epigenetics, imaging genetics, early environmental risk factors).
- Understand concepts and research literature on animal models on neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- You will learn to understand the principles of early brain development in the context of early onset neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD, ASD and intellectual disability.
- After the course, you can explain the association between brain development, genetic plus environmental factors and neurodevelopmental disorders. You will grasp brain imaging, genetics and cognitive research techniques, applied to the study of these disorders. You will also learn about the effect of early environmental risk factors (e.g., maternal stress, fetal exposure to alcohol and nicotine, exposure to SSRIs) on brain development, evidence for shared neural and genetic underpinnings of neurodevelopmental disorders and and about animal models (mice, rats) of neurodevelopmental disorders.
- You will present a research paper on one of the topics together with another student. Throughout the course, you give feedback on presentations of other students and reflect critically on scientific papers.
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