This year (2009-2010) the course will run during the Spring Semester from January through April (TBD) . The course meets every Tuesday from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in HSRF 400 (unless otherwise noted below), and will be held on select dates in conjunction with Neurology Grand Rounds (Thursdays 9:30-11:00 am).

The target audiences are: Advanced Graduate Students; Neuroscience Faculty, and Residents (in the departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry).

The goal of the course is to provide insight in recent developments in transitional neuroscience research and to stimulate interaction between basic and clinical neuroscience research at UVM. In order to achieve this goal, the course will focus on an in-depth examination of a single group of highly related neurological disorders. The disorder examined will change every year, so that many major groups of neurological disease are covered in a five year span.

This year's topic is Dementia of the Elderly - Proteinopathies.

The course will be taught by Felix Eckenstein, Ph.D. and Robert Hamill, Ph.D., with guest lecturers (to be announced; schedule currently being developed).