Behavioural Disorders

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Behavioural Disorders

Full course description

The course covers the range of cognitive and behavioural problems that accompany the most common neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, ADHD, autism and acquired brain injuries). The course provides insight into the underlying neurobiological and psychological mechanisms, and it touches on the principle of vulnerability, and protective/risk factors in the aetiology of behavioural disorders.

Course objectives

You will gain an understanding of the psychological, neurobiological, and epidemiological mechanisms underlying cognitive and biological models of developmental-, psychiatric-, and neurological disorders and neuropsychiatric syndromes.

PSY4408

Period 1

2 Sep 2024

25 Oct 2024

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ECTS credits:

4.0

Instruction language:

English

Coordinator:

M. Schwartze

Teaching methods:

Lecture(s), PBL

Assessment methods:

Attendance, Written exam

Keywords:

behavioural disorders, cognitive and biological models, development, neuropsychiatry, acquired brain injury, Neuropsychology, intervention