MSc in Clinical Neuroscience / MSc and Diploma in Clinical Neurology - Spring Term 2015 | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology - UCL

Monday lectures will be held in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre (WLT) unless otherwise stated.

Wednesday lectures will be held in the Gilliatt Lecture Theatre (GLT) unless otherwise stated.

N.B. No recording of lectures on mobile phones is permitted

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Week 12

Monday 5th January
9.00 - 9.15	Introductory talk: Motor Systems, Control and Disease	Dr Selai/Convenor(s)
9.15 - 10.30	spare slot
10.30 - 10.45	Break
10.45 - 12.00	spare slot
12.00 - 13.00	spare slot
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	GLT
15.00 - 16.00	Neurology of bladder control	Jalesh Panicker	Handout
16.00 - 17.00	Neurology of sexual function	Jalesh Panicker	Handout
Tuesday 6th January
10.00 - 11.00	Cortical control of the hand	Marco Davare - 33 LT	References Handout
13.00 - 14.00	Neuro-ophthalmology case demonstration	33LT
14.00 - 15.00	Introduction to the motor system	John Rothwell 33LT	Handout References
15.00 - 16.00	Use of TMS for assessment of motor function	John Rothwell 33LT	Handout References
Wednesday 7th January
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Functional organisation of the basal ganglia	Paul Bolam	Handout References
10.30 - 10.45	Break
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
15.00 - 16.00	Cerebellar structure, function and control	Joern Diedrichsen	Handout References
Thursday 8th January
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round	33 LT
Friday 9th January
10.00 - 12.00	Workshop: TMS (ALL students: 4 groups)	John Rothwell - Dept, 3rd floor, 33QS
14.00 - 16.00	Stats revision session	Fatima Jichi - GLT
17.00 - 18.00	Clinical session (4)	Prof Shorvon	MSc and Diploma Clinical Neurology ONLY

Week 13

Monday 12th January
9.00 - 10.00	Sensory control of action	Brian Day	Summary Handout References
10.00 - 12.00	Masterclass on Hyperkinetics to incl Dystonia, Myoclonus,Tremor	Mark Edwards	References
12.15 - 13.15	Motor control theories	James Kilner	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC - GLT
15.00 - 16.00	Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease	Christos Proukakis	Handout References
Tuesday 13th January
9.00 - 10.00	Examination skills session	Dr Selai - GLT
13.00 - 14.00	Critchley Round	GLT/33LT
Wednesday 14th January
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Vertigo	Adolfo Bronstein	Handout References
10.30 - 10.45	Break
10.45 - 11.45	The neuropathological basis of movement disorders	Janice Holton	Handout
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Ataxia	Paola Giunti
15.00 - 16.00	Imaging movement disorders	Paola Piccini	Handout
Thursday 15th January
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round	33 LT
Friday 16th January
10.00 - 11.00	Statistics Exam	GLT	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
14.00 - 15.00	MS Masterclass	Prof Alan Thompson SR7	Clinical Neurology only References

Week 14

Monday 19th January
9.00 - 10.00	Masterclass Parkinson’s Disease	Tom Foltynie	Handout
10.00 - 11.00	A-typical Parkinsonism	Huw Morris	Handout (1) Handout (2) References
11.00 - 11.15	Break
11.15 - 12.15	Basal ganglia-pathophysiology	Mark Edwards	References
12.15 - 13.15	Tics and Tourettes	Mark Edwards	References
13.15 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	GLT
15.00 - 16.00	spare slot
Tuesday 20th January
10.00 - 11.00	Genetics of movement disorders	Kailash Bhatia - 33LT
11.00 - 12.00	Autonomic function	Chris Mathias - 33LT	Rescheduled on 27th February
13.00 - 17.00	Workshop: Autonomic Disorders	(K Bleasdale Barr/C Mathias): in Autonomic Dept QM Wing	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
(13.00 - 14.00)	Critchley Round	GLT
Wednesday 21st January
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical session 1	Niall Quinn
10.30 - 10.45	Break
10.45 - 11.45	Huntington’s disease	Ed Wild	Rescheduled
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Spastic paraplegia	Tom Warner	Handout References
15.00 - 16.00	spare slot
16.00 - 17.00	Queen Square Brain Bank Clinical Grand Round	GLT
Thursday 22nd January
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round	33 LT
16.15 - 17.15	Huntington’s disease	Ed Wild - 33LT	References
Friday 23rd January
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical Neurology Tutorial	Dr Selai – SR7

Week 15

Monday 26th January
9.00 - 10.00	Neuropathology/mechanisms of MND	Bernadett Kalmar	Handout References
10.00 - 11.00	Motor Neurone Disease	Pietro Fratta
11.00 - 11.15	Break
11.15 - 12.15	Autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases of the CNS	Mike Lunn
12.15 - 13.15	Motor control	Alexander Kraskov	Handout References
13.15 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC
Tuesday 27th January
12.00 - 13.00	Autonomic function	Christopher Matias - 33 LT	References
13.00 - 14.00	Critchley Round	WLT
14.00 - 16.00	Case Presentation with Dr Brownlee	WLT	MSc Clinical Neurology only
Wednesday 28th January
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical session 2	Niall Quinn
10.30 -10.45	Break
10.45 - 11.45	spare slot
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Masterclass on MS to include ‘Diagnosis and treatment of MS’	Trip	Handout (1) Handout (2) References These talks are not for circulation to a 3rd party
Thursday 29th January
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round	WLT
Friday 30th January
	MODULE 3: 2 hour unseen exam - MCQ	Student cluster room at 7 Queen Square

Week 16

Monday 2nd February
9.00 - 10.00	Cerebellar disorders	Nick Wood	Handout References
10.00 - 10.45	Neurotechnology: Interfacing the brain to restore capabilities lost though disease/injury (part 1)	Stephan Waldert	Handout References
10.45 - 11.00	Break
11.00 - 11.45	Neurotechnology: Interfacing the brain to restore capabilities lost though disease/injury (part 2)	Stephan Waldert
12.15 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 14.00	Neurology of respiration	Robin Howard	Rescheduled on 9th February
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	WLT
15.00 - 16.00	Mechanisms underlying loss of function in neuroinflammatory demyelinating disease	Ken Smith	Handout References
Tuesday 3rd February
13.00 - 14.00	Neuro-ophthalmology case demonstration	WLT
14.30 - 16.00	Case Presentation	Dr James Gratwicke - GLT	MSc Clinical Neurology only
Wednesday 4th February
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical session 3	Niall Quinn
10.30 - 10.45	Break
10.45 - 11.45	Remyelination mechanisms in demyelinating disease	speaker TBC
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Q&A session for Module Four	GLT	CANCELLED
15.00 - 16.00	spare slot
Thursday 5th February
9.00 - 17.00	MSc Clinical Neuroscience presentations	33LT
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round	WLT
Friday 6th February
9.00 - 17.00	MSc Clinical Neuroscience presentations	33LT

Week 17

Monday 9th February
9.00 - 9.15	Introductory talk: ‘Higher Functions of the Brain’	Dr Selai/Convenor(s)
9.15 - 10.15	Introduction to neuropsychology	Jennifer Foley	Handout References
10.15 - 11.15	Early visual processing	Dr Stewart Shipp	Handout References
11.15 - 11.30	Break
11.30 - 12.30	Spatial coding in the hippocampus	James Bisby	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Neurology of respiration	Robin Howard - WLT
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	WLT
15.00 - 16.00	Emotion, motivation and decision making	Tom Fitzgerald	Rescheduled on 24th February
16.00 - 17.00	Frontal lobar degeneration	Nick Fox GLT	Handout References
Tuesday 10th February
8.15 - 17.15	Visit to STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL SPINAL INJURIES UNIT		Dip/MSc Clinical only
(13.00 - 14.00)	Critchley Round
Wednesday 11th February
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	The inattentive brain	Richard Sylvester	Handout Reference
10.30 - 10.45	Break
10.45 - 11.45	How the brain represents itself: disorders of higher order awareness following right hemisphere stroke	Aikaterini Fotopoulou	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Magnetoencephalography	Holly Rossiter	Handout References
15.00 - 16.00	Executive functions	Paul Burgess	Handout References
17.00 - 18.00	Talk on the topic of ‘Enjoy writing your science thesis or dissertation’	Elizabeth Fisher, Richard Thompson - Lecture theatre 33QS
Thursday 12th February
9.00 - 10.00	Head injury: trauma	Watkins- GLT
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round
Friday 13th February
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical Neurology Tutorial	Dr Selai – SR7

Week 18

Monday 16th February
9.00 - 10.00	What TMS can teach us about cognitive aspects of motor control	Sven Bestmann	Handout References
10.00 - 11.00	Predicting cognitive abilities from structural brain images	Tom Hope	Handout References
11.00 - 11.15	Break
11.15 - 12.15	Stroke	Martin Brown	Handout
12.15 - 13.15	spare slot
13.15 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	GLT
15.00 - 16.00	spare slot
Tuesday 17th February
13.00 - 14.00	Critchley Round	WLT
14.00 - 16.00	Case Presentation with Dr Noyce	WLT	MSc Clinical Neurology only
Wednesday 18th February
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal - Revision	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
13.00 - 14.00	Luch
14.00 - 15.00	Epilepsy: neuropsychiatry	Dr J Foong	Handout References
15.00 - 16.00	Non-epileptic seizures	Dr J Foong
16.00 - 17.00	Surgery for movement disorders (combined with ANI)	Ludvic Zrinzo	Handout References
Thursday 19th February
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round
Friday 20th February
10.00 - 12.00	MODULE FOUR: written EXAM (All) (15 credits)	Torrington Place

Week 19

Monday 23rd February
9.00 - 10.00	Volition	Dr Parashkev Nachev
10.00 - 11.00	Neurological rehabilitation	Diane Playford	CANCELLED To be rescheduled
11.00 - 11.15	Break
11.15 - 12.15	Prions and neurodegeneration	Simon Mead
12.15 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 14.00	Coma, diagnosis and management	Robin Howard WLT
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	WLT
15.00 - 16.00	Imaging the normal brain: MRI	Nickolaus Weiskopf	Handout References
Tuesday 24th February
8.30-11.30	1^st Workshop on Analysis of brain activity	Stephan Waldert - Cluster Room	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
13.00 - 14.00	Critchley Round
14.00 - 15.00	Emotion, motivation and decision making	Tom Fitzgerald - GLT
Wednesday 25th February
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr Caroline Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Psychiatry of movement disorders	Eileen Joyce
10.30 - 10.45	Break
13.00 - 14.00	Limbic system	Michael Trimble
14.00 - 15.00	Motor recovery	Nick Ward
15.00 - 16.00	spare slot
Thursday 26th February
9.45 -12.45	2^nd Workshop on Analysis of brain activity (part 1)	Stephan Waldert - Cluster Room	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
11.15 -12.30	Neuro-ophthalmology master class	Dr Fion Bremner- Cluster Room, 7QS	MSc Clinical Neurology only
14.00 - 16.00	2^nd Workshop on Analysis of brain activity (part 2)	Stephan Waldert - Cluster Room	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round
Friday 27th February
9.30 - 10.30	Clinical Neurology Tutorial	Dr Selai – SR7

Week 20

Monday 2nd March
9.00 - 12.00	Workshop – Quantiative MRI – tbc (All students)	WLT	CANCELLED
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	WLT
15.00 - 16.00	fMRI Physics	Samira Kazan	Handout References
Tuesday 3rd March
10.00 - 11.00	Auto-immune related cognitive disorders	Jonathan Schott - WLT	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Neuro-ophthalmology case demonstration	WLT
13.30 - 17.00	Visit to the ASPIRE Centre in Stanmore		MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
15.00 - 16.30	Neuroradiology teaching Group 1	Dr Kenji Yamamoto 8-11QS 3rd Floor	MSc Clinical Neurology only
16.45 - 18.15	Neuroradiology teaching Group 2	Dr Kenji Yamamoto 8-11QS 3rd Floor	MSc Clinical Neurology only
Wednesday 4th March
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
9.30 - 10.30	Language and language abnormalities	Alex Leff	Handout References
10.30 - 11.30	Developing the adolescent brain	Lisa Knoll	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Alzheimer’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies	Jonathan Rohrer	Handout References
15.00 - 16.00	Decision making	Steve Kennerley	Handout References
16.00 -17.00	Non-organic neurological syndromes	Eileen Joyce
Thursday 5th March
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round
Friday 6th March
9.00 - 10.45	Neuroradiology teaching Group 3	Dr Kenji Yamamoto 8-11QS 3rd Floor	MSc Clinical Neurology only
11.00 - 12.45	Neuroradiology teaching Group 4	Dr Kenji Yamamoto 8-11QS 3rd Floor	MSc Clinical Neurology only
14.00 - 15.00	Sleep Masterclass	Dr Sofia Eriksson - SR7	MSc Clinical Neurology only

Week 21

Monday 9th March

11.15 - 12.15	A brief history of the motor cortex	Nikhil Sharma
12.15 - 13.15	Bayesian theories of psychosis	Rick Adams	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	WLT
15.00 - 16.00	Vascular dementia	David Werring	Handout References
Tuesday 10th March
9.00 -10.00	Motor learning in cerebellum and neocortex	Joern Diedrichsen	Handout References
13.00 - 14.00	Critchley Round
14.00 - 15.30	Case presentation	Dr Wallace Brownlee - WLT
Wednesday 11th March
8.30 - 9.30	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr C Selai	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
10.30 - 10.45	Break
11.00 - 12.30	Case presentation	Dr James Gratwicke- GLT	MSc Clinical Neurology only
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00
15.00 - 16.00
Thursday 12th March
14.15 - 16.00	Gowers Grand Round
Friday 13th March
10.00 - 12.00	MCQ written (30 credits)	Cluster Room	Clinical only

Week 22

Monday 16th March
Keep free for Revision
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	CPC	GLT
Tuesday 17th March
Keep free for Revision
Wednesday 18th March
9.00 - 10.00	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr Selai - GLT	MSc Clinical Neuroscience/DM only
Thursday 19th March
10.00 - 12.00	OSCE Exam (15 credits)	Cluster Room	Clinical only
Friday 20th March

Saturday 21st March
	Clinical Exam: Basil Samuel Outpatients Dept (15 credits)
Wednesday 25th March
9.00 - 10.00	Research Training/Critical appraisal	Dr Selai - SR7	MSc Clinical Neuroscience/DM only
Friday 27th March
	Deadline MODULE 5: 3,000 word Essay (ALL) (15 credits)
Tuesday 26th May
9.00 - 17.00	Research project presentations	33LT	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
Thursday 28th May
9.00 - 17.00	Research project presentations	33LT	MSc Clinical Neuroscience only
Friday 29th May
	Queen Square Symposium	33LT

MSc in Clinical Neuroscience / MSc and Diploma in Clinical Neurology - Spring Term 2015

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Week 12

Monday 5th January

Tuesday 6th January

Wednesday 7th January

Thursday 8th January

Friday 9th January

Week 13

Monday 12th January

Tuesday 13th January

Wednesday 14th January

Thursday 15th January

Friday 16th January

Week 14

Monday 19th January

Tuesday 20th January

Wednesday 21st January

Thursday 22nd January

Friday 23rd January

Week 15

Monday 26th January

Tuesday 27th January

Wednesday 28th January

Thursday 29th January

Friday 30th January

Week 16

Monday 2nd February

Tuesday 3rd February

Wednesday 4th February

Thursday 5th February

Friday 6th February

Week 17

Monday 9th February

Tuesday 10th February

Wednesday 11th February

Thursday 12th February

Friday 13th February

Week 18

Monday 16th February

Tuesday 17th February

Wednesday 18th February

Thursday 19th February

Friday 20th February

Week 19

Monday 23rd February

Tuesday 24th February

Wednesday 25th February

Thursday 26th February

Friday 27th February

Week 20

Monday 2nd March

Tuesday 3rd March

Wednesday 4th March

Thursday 5th March

Friday 6th March

Week 21

Monday 9th March

Tuesday 10th March

Wednesday 11th March

Thursday 12th March

Friday 13th March

Week 22

Monday 16th March

Tuesday 17th March

Wednesday 18th March

Thursday 19th March

Friday 20th March

Saturday 21st March

Wednesday 25th March

Friday 27th March

Tuesday 26th May

Thursday 28th May

Friday 29th May