The visceral mind: Provisional syllabus
AM
PM
Monday
Lecture: Orientating in the brain/
*MRI normal anatomy **Brain dissection 1:
Somoatormotor systems (patient videos)
whole brain and
hemisphere surface
anatomy and
vasculature
*Brain dissection 1:
**MRI normal
whole brain and
anatomy
hemisphere surface
anatomy and
vasculature
Tuesday
Lecture: Visual system (patient videos)
Patient Case Conference
Lecture: Limbic system (patient videos)
Lecture: Cerebral
Patient Case
*MRI pathology
**Brain dissection II:
vasculature and stroke
Conference
brain slices, fibre
syndromes
tracts, geniculate and
hippocampal
dissection
*Brain dissection I1:
**MRI pathology
brain slices, fiber
tracts, geniculate and
hippocampal
dissection
Wednesday
Lecture: Neurotransmitter pathways
Lesion analysis labs*
Patient Case Conference
Anatomy lab: Clinical Correlations*
Thursday
Patient Case Conference
Lesion analysis labs**
Anatomy lab: Clinical Correlations *
Friday
Lecture: Research neuroimaging techniques
Lab: Research neuroimaging techniques
(voxel based lesion analysis, tractography,
magnetization transfer imaging, perfusion
imaging, resting state MRI functional
connectivity, multispectral lesion segmentation,
MR spectroscopy)
* Group A; ** Group B
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Case Conferences Options:
Posterior cerebral artery stroke (visual field deficits, object agnosia, alexia, achromatopsia,
prosopagnosia)
Amensia cases: Korsakoff, anterior communicating artery aneurism, posterior cerebral
artery stroke
Right convexity syndrome: neglect
Left convexity syndrome: aphasia, apraxia, acalculia
Watershed stroke: Bálint’s syndrome
Traumatic brain injury cases: Brain stem auditory agnosia, callosal disconnection (split
brain)