Course Leader:     Stephen Salloway, MD, MS

Other Faculty     Paul Malloy, PhD, Ken Rickler, MD

Course Location:     Butler Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital

When Offered:     All year

Maximum Students per Rotation:     2

Duration of Rotation:     3-6 weeks

Type of Rotation:     Consultation Service/ Outpatient Clinic

Cognitive Content:     Applying recent advances in neuroscience to the study of neurochemical disorders and dementia.  Review of neural substrates of behavior, neuroimaging and neuropharmacology.

Prerequisites:     Clerkship in Psychiatry

Criteria for Passing:     Adequately perform the duties of a sub-intern with selected inpatients.  Supervised neurological consultation on psychiatric inpatients and assessment of outpatients with neuropsychiatric disorders, memory disorders, memory loss and dementia in the outpatient clinic.

Criteria for Honors:     Initiate a scholarly review of a subject pertinent to neuropsychiatry.

Competencies:     Ability II: intermediate/advanced level, Ability III: intermediate/advanced level, Ability IV: intermediate/advanced level, Provisionally approved

Number of Hrs/Wk of Classroom/Discussion:        5

Number of Nights Oncall per Week:     None

Planned Independent Projects for Students:     None

Description:     1) Neurological evaluation of patients with cognitive and behavioral disorders to better understand brain-behavior relationships. 2) Treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.