Course Announcement!

(for Fall 2011)

Imaging Drugs in the Brain

ENAS 880a / NSCI 523a

Details

Course Time: Tues 3:30-5:20pm

Course Location: The Anlyan Center (TAC) 209

Instructors

Prof Evan Morris, Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering

(evan.morris@yale.edu). https://tauruspet.med.yale.edu/staff/edm42/

(Watch this site for reading assignment for first class on Sept 6.)

Prof Kelly Cosgrove, Psychiatry --- (kelly.cosgrove@yale.edu)

Prof Wendol Williams, Psychiatry --- (wendol.williams@yale.edu)

Format: Weekly seminars to cover current and classic literature on functional imaging research into effects of drugs (licit and illicit) on brain chemistry. Readings taken from seminal papers using PET, SPECT, and fMRI. Lively discussion is expected.

Course Goals

• To learn to read the functional imaging literature perceptively and critically.
• To learn to recognize the primary endpoints of functional imaging studies of the brain
• To recognize commonalities in studies of drug abuse and reward and to construct a sound imaging study.
• To understand the ambiguities inherent in the analysis of functional imaging studies depending on the tracer or imaging modality.
• Interested Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience graduate students as well as motivated senior undergraduates are encouraged to sign up. Student, fellows, residents, faculty are all welcome.