Surgery for Intractable Movement and Psychiatric Disorders

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The aim of this course is to guide the participants through the first key steps of neuroscience experiments related to movement and psychiatric disorders. Students receive relevant knowledge via lectures and will have the opportunity to practically apply this in a hands-on setting. Students are also shown stereotactic surgery that is used to selectively lesion brain areas, to chronically infuse drugs into brain areas and to deep brain stimulate and electrophysiologically record from brain areas. Also, there are demonstrations and discussions on behavioral tests used to study the functional consequences of the neurosurgical interventions.