Neuropathology

Neuropathology of Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases and the Impact of Brain Banking on Neuroscience

Despite new insights from MRI studies showing volume reduction and altered activation of brain regions, the underlying neuropathology of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases is only partly understood.

The IMPRS-TP neuropathology workshop aims to give insight in findings on the cellular level using modern microscopy. It includes lectures on neuropathology of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases by a psychiatrist and a neuropathologist, anatomical dissection of human brains, and a microcopic course on different neuropathological alterations in the human brain.

Schedule:

29.10.2018 Day 1

9:15 – 10:30 Microscopy room (room 155, 1st floor)
Welcome, introduction of the course programme, lecture on brain banking (Arzberger)

10:30 – 10:45   Coffee break

10:45 – 13:00  Autopsy room
Short visit to the Neurobiobank Munich
Gross anatomy of a formalin-fixed brain and its preparation for neuropathological diagnostics: common cutting of a formalin-fixed autopsy brain (Arzberger)

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch
14:00 – 15:30  Micsroscopy room
Neuropathology of neurodegenerative diseases (lecture, Arzberger)

15:30 – 15:50  Coffee break

15:50 – 17:00   Microscopy room
Histological alterations in diseases of the central nervous system: common session at the microscope (part 1) (Arzberger)

30.10.2018 Day 2

9:15 – 11:00  Microscopy room
Histological alterations in diseases of the central nervous system: common session at the microscope (part 2) (Arzberger)

11:00 – 11:20  Coffee break
11:20 – 12:50  Microscopy room
Histological alterations in diseases of the central nervous system: common session at the microscope (part 3) (Arzberger)

12:50 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 15:00  Microscopy room
Neuropathology of affective and non-affective psychoses (lecture Schmitt)

15:00 – 15:30  Microscopy room
Brain banking – ethical considerations (lecture Arzberger)

15:30 – 15:50  Coffee Break

15:50 – 16:30 Summary of the course, further questions, open discussion (Arzberger)

The course is limited to 11 participants. Early registration recommended.