Prof. Gilles in Class and Workshop on Neuropsychology at the Faculty of Psychology Unika Atma Jaya

09/25/2017 00:00:00

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Last August, Prof. Coenencame to Faculty of Psychology Unika Atma Jaya to teach neuropsychology class and workshop. On September 4th to September 14th 2017, his colleague, who is also a student of Prof. Coenen, taught neuropsychology classes and workshops. He is Prof. Gilles van Luijtelaar from Donders Center for Cognition, Department of Biological Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen. Prof. Gilles has seven neuropsychological classes with topics on learning and memory, plasticity, emotions, executive functions, epilepsy and antiepileptic drugs, psychiatric disorders, and neuropsychological assessment.

 

The workshop was held on September 6th, 2017 and September 13th, 2017 in Building K2 room 2,202. This workshop was followed by students, lecturers, as well as practitioners from Atma Jaya and outside Atma Jaya. The first workshop discussed epilepsy in depth. Prof. Gilles explained that people with epilepsy does not always have a seizure, but there is also a type of epilepsy that causes a person immobilized and unresponsive called absence epilepsy. The explanation continues with the factors that cause epilepsy, the effects of epilepsy, the parts of the brain that affected by epilepsy, and the way in which epilepsy being treated. The topic of the second workshop is psychiatric disorder and focuses on three disorders, namely schizophrenia, mood disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In each of the disturbances, Prof. Gilles describes the symptoms of each of the disorders, risk factors, genetic models, neurotransmitters that is activated in each disorder, the influence of the disorder to the brain, and the treatment process of each disorder.

 

The participants seemed enthusiastic in attending the workshop, even they needed more than 2,5 hours for the workshop particularly when discussing about psychiatric disorders. The event that cooperated with Erasmus + was closed by Dr. Angela Oktavia Suryani, M.Si as the Dean of Faculty of Psychology Unika Atma Jaya. Hopefully the classes and workshops that have been arranged can make people more interested to explore the field of neuropsychology.

 

 

 

Author : Billy