This module provides you with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview and analysis of common dementia diseases and syndromes: their epidemiology, clinical...

Clinical Neuroscience of Dementia (CLNE0029)

This module provides you with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview and analysis of common dementia diseases and syndromes: their epidemiology, clinical and neuroanatomical signatures, clinical genetics and pathology, and algorithms for diagnosis and management. Sessions will be led by senior cognitive neurologists and psychiatrists at the forefront of translational research in the target diseases. The core syllabus will comprise Alzheimer’s disease and its variant phenotypes, the progressive aphasias, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body disease and syndromes of atypical parkinsonism, vascular cognitive impairment, acute and subacute encephalopathies, and dementias of younger life. You will gain a detailed theoretical and clinical understanding of the major neurodegenerative diseases as manifestations of underlying brain pathology and anatomical patterns of brain damage. Lectures will be supplemented by a variety of opportunities for integrative, practical and formative learning, most directly integrated with the module Practical Neuroscience of Dementia and including patient-based teaching in neuroradiology, neuropsychology and neuropathology.

The module learning objectives are:

To describe detailed, practical knowledge of the key molecular pathological, clinical, laboratory and neuroimaging features of major dementias and related cognitive disorders.
	To employ a scientifically informed approach to assessing the patient with cognitive impairment and demonstrate knowledge of diagnostic tools.
	To evaluate current and potential treatments for dementia, including the evidence base, pitfalls and neurobiological rationale.
	 

The focus of this module is to enable you to localise a stroke using clinical history, signs and imaging findings. It also contains lectures on stroke...