MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Medicine Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

MPM2007

Basic sciences of psychiatry (semester 2)

Associate Professor J Kulkarni, Dr A Yung and Dr G Meadows

Synopsis The subject is about the contribution of the neurosciences to psychiatry. The seminar series provides detailed information about biological perspectives of psychiatry with sessions on genetics, neuroanatomy (including brain dissection), neuropharmacology, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, brain imaging and recording and immunology. Some sessions are devoted to the clinical application of recent advances in biological psychiatry.

Assessment Written examination (90 minutes)

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