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Immunopsychiatry

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 10 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 10 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-IPS-h-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

ODA-IMM-T finished

Exam course:

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Topic

The potential role of immune mechanisms in neurodevelopment and consequent psychiatric disorders.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Overview of basic immunological processes necessary to understand immunopsychiatry

    - Simon Diána, Kovács Márton Áron
  • 2.

    From psychoneuroimmunology to immunopsychiatry - a historical overview

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 3.

    Connection between the central nervous system and immune system

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 4.

    Immunological processes in the development of the central nervous system

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 5.

    The effect of stress on the immune system and the central nervous system

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 6.

    Microbiota-gut-brain axis and neuropsychiatric disorders

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 7.

    Immune changes in psychiatric disorders

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 8.

    Imaging studies (MRI) and neuroinflammation

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 9.

    Immunological markers and potential future therapeutic options

    - Kovács Márton Áron
  • 10.

    Summary and discussion of feedback

    - Kovács Márton Áron

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

1. Antonio L. Teixeira, Moises E. Brauer: Immunopsychiatry - A clinician's introduction to the immune basis of mental disorders. Oxford University Press, 2019

2. Golam Khandaker, Neil Harrison, Edward Bullmore and Robert Dantzer - Textbook of Immunopsychiatry. Cambridge University Press, 2021

3. Michael Berk, Marion Leboyer, Iris E. Sommer - Immuno-Psychiatry Facts and Prospects

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

active participation during lectures

Mid-term exams

answers given during and at the end of lectures using digital devices

Making up for missed classes

not possible

Exam topics/questions

No exam questions

Examiners

  • Kovács Márton Áron

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Kovács Márton Áron
  • Simon Diána
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