SUBJECT

Title

Research Methods in Clinical Psychology: Issues of Clinical Neuroscience

Code

DPSY16-CLI-102:3

Type of instruction

practice

Level

Doctoral

Part of degree program
Credits

7

Recommended in

Semester 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

This course will provide a broad overview of theory and research in the field of clinical neuroscience. In each semester we focus on a specific topic such as personality and the brain,
non-conscious processes, decision making, habits, automatic behavior or psychiatry and neurological disorders. Moreover the course addresses methodological topics as well such as fMRI, EEG, computational modelling and reaction time analysis.

Readings
  • Cramer, A. O. J., Waldorp, L. J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2010). Comorbidity: a network perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33 (2-3), 137-150.
  • Gazzaniga, M. S. (Ed.). (2004). The cognitive neurosciences. MIT press.
  • Lambert, K. G., & Kinsley, C. H. (2011). Clinical neuroscience: Psychopathology and the brain. Oxford University Press.
  • Montague, P. R., Dolan, R. J., Friston, K. J., & Dayan, P. (2012). Computational psychiatry. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(1), 72-80.
  • Reinout W. Wiers, & Alan W. Stacy (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of implicit cognition and addiction. Sage.