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Psychiatric Epidemiology

Staff

Instructor:
William Eaton

Originally Offered

Fall 2004

Offered By

Mental Health

Description

Psychiatric Epidemiology reviews descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life. The course will also examine issues of classification and the nosology of psychiatric disorders as well as operational case definitions and the measurement techniques to enhance field surveys and risk factor research.

Syllabus

 

Course Description

Psychiatric Epidemiology reviews descriptive and analytic epidemiology for major mental disorders of childhood, adulthood, and late adult life. The course will also examine issues of classification and the nosology of psychiatric disorders as well as operational case definitions and the measurement techniques to enhance field surveys and risk factor research.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Define the various elements of the field of psychiatric epidemiology.
2. Define methodological and conceptual issues that are especially important for psychiatric epidemiology as distinct from epidemiology.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of research findings in the descriptive and analytic epidemiology of the major mental disorders.

Prerequisites

To make the most of these course materials, you will need to have taken a prior (or concurrent) course in epidemiology/biostatistics.

Readings

You can buy the textbook, Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology , 2nd ed. (2002) , by Tsuang, M.T., and Tohen, M. , from an online bookseller such as Amazon or through the Matthews Johns Hopkins Medical Book Center.

Matthews Johns Hopkins Medical Book Center
1830 East Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A.
410-955-3931
800-266-5725
410-955-0576 (fax)
http://www.cbamatthews.com/jhmedbook/

Indended Audience

Psychiatric Epidemiology is designed for students, epidemiologists, public health professionals, and researchers interested in mental health and mental disorders (as studied from the public health approach). The course builds upon knowledge of the principles and methods of epidemiology, as might be obtained in an introductory course (for example, Epidemiology 601 at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, or the equivalent), or found in an introductory textbook in epidemiology, such as Lilienfeld and Stolley, Foundations of Epidemiology, or Gordis, Epidemiology).

The course does not provide clinical training.

Schedule

 

TOPIC	ACTIVITIES
Module 1: Special Issues in Psychiatric Epidemiology
Introductory Video	Video
Introduction, Nosology, and History	Lecture 1
Measurement of Psychopathology in Populations	Lecture 2
Module 1 Quiz	Assignment
Module 1 Article Review	Assignment
Module 2: Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Epidemiology of Anxiety Disorders	Lecture 3
Epidemiology of PTSD	Lecture 4
Epidemiology of Mood Disorders I: Diagnosis, Descriptive Epidemiology, and Natural History	Lecture 5
Epidemiology of Mood Disorders II: Analytic Epidemiology and the Search for Etiological Clues	Lecture 6
Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders	Lecture 7
Module 2 Quiz	Assignment
Module 2 Article Review	Assignment
Module 3: Disorders Over the Course of the Life
Epidemiology of Disorders in Children	Lecture 8
Austism	Lecture 9
Epidemiology of Dementia	Lecture 10
Module 3 Quiz	Assignment
Module 3 Article Review	Assignment
Module 4: Psychosis
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders: Diagnosis, Descriptive Epidemiology, and Natural History	Lecture 11
Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders II: Analytic Epidemiology and the Search for Etiologic Clues	Lecture 12
Module 5: Personality; Somotaform Epidemics
Epidemiology of Personality Disorders	Lecture 13
Somatoform Epidemics as Emerbent Collective Behavior	Lecture 14
Final Exam	Assignment
Module 4 Article Review	Assignment