Course Description
The epidemiology, biology, clinical characteristics, treatment, and public health implications of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias among older adults.
Athena Title
Alzheimers Dementia
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GRNT 7950
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will learn to differentiate amongst the term's symptoms, clinical syndromes, and etiologies for neurodegenerative diseases.
- Students will learn to describe the epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
- Students will learn to identify neuropathological changes associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
- Students will learn to compare common presenting clinical syndromes in late-life neurodegenerative diseases.
- Students will learn to evaluate available and potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
- Students will learn to construct public health solutions for neurodegenerative diseases.
Topical Outline
- Late life cognitive disorder nomenclature
- Neuroanatomy primer/refresher
- Alzheimer’s disease: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Alpha synucleinopathies: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Parkinson’s plus syndromes: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Cerebrovascular disease: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
- Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy: Epidemiology, neuropathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and public health implications
