HUMAN BRAIN
Anatomy Course (3-day / 4-day)

Next course: TBC

(Venue: TBC)

A highly popular and accessible introduction to structural, functional and radiological neuroanatomy

Course Overview

This is our original three-day introduction to human brain anatomy.

• Highly popular course with five star ratings
• Comprehensive introduction to human brain anatomy
• Assumes minimal prior knowledge
• Emphasises functional, clinical and radiological (MRI) neuroanatomy
• Summer course includes an optional 'hands on' anatomy practical!

Course director:

Dr Paul Johns, BSc BM MSc FAcadMEd FRSB FRCPath

Consultant Neuropathologist

Reader in Clinical Neuroanatomy

Three-day course: £495

(includes course handbook and refreshments)

Suitable for undergraduate / postgraduate students in medicine and biomedical sciences, neuroscience and psychology

This programme is also rated highly as a refresher course and update by junior doctors in neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery

Mean feedback score (July 2019): 4.9/5.0

Hands-On Brain Anatomy Practical

Our summer 3-day course has an optional half-day brain anatomy practical. The date of the next hands-on session is TBC.

Read a review

This course has been reviewed by PhD students Anna Jones and Natalie Royle (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh) who won a Neuroresearchers Fund Award to attend in 2011.

"...Excellent teaching from Dr P. Johns... enabled us to gain a large degree of knowledge in a short time period...

The course has been considerably beneficial to our ongoing research and we would highly recommend it..."

Course Programme

This exciting 3-day / 4-day programme provides a detailed overview of human brain anatomy presented in a very clear and accessible way.

The approach is unlike traditional neuroanatomy courses, emphasising understanding over rote learning.

The comprehensive lecture programme gives a firm grasp of the three-dimensional structure of the brain with clinical and functional integration. Attendees find this approach enjoyable and a powerful aid to long-term recall.

The timetable for the July 2020 course is provided below and will take place at King's College London, Guy's Campus (see venue here).

MAIN PROGRAMME

Day One

09.30 - 10.00:  Registration and coffee

10.00 - 11.00:  Overview of the human brain

11.00 - 11.30:  Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30:  Brain development and anatomy

12.30 - 13.30:  Lunch break

13.30 - 14.30:  Cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter

14.30 - 15.00:  Tea break

15.00 - 16.00:  Primary sensory and motor areas

16.00 - 16.15:  Questions / comments

Day Two

10.00 - 11.00:  Frontal lobe and prefrontal region

11.00 - 11.30:  Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30:  Parieto-occipital, temporal and language areas

12.30 - 13.30:  Lunch break

13.30 - 14.30:  Blood supply to the brain

14.30 - 15.00:  Tea break

15.00 - 16.00:  Brain stem and cerebellum

16.00 - 16.15:  Questions / comments

Day Three

10.00 - 11.00:  Corpus striatum, thalamus and internal capsule

11.00 - 11.30:  Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30:  Basal ganglia loops and ventral striatum

12.30 - 13.30:  Lunch break

13.30 - 14.30:  Limbic lobe and insula

14.30 - 15.00:  Tea break

15.00 - 16.00:  Hippocampus and amygdala

16.00 - 16.15:  Concluding remarks -- and Close

OPTIONAL PRACTICAL

Day Four *
(Venue: anatomy dissection room, King's College London)

09.30 - 10.00:  Registration and session briefing
(including dissection room rules and Human Tissue Act regulations)

10.00 - 10.30:  Live anatomy demonstration

(brain structures demonstrated live on high resolution video screens)

10.30 - 12.15   Hands-on neuroanatomy practical session

(delegates identify brain structures on a range of human specimens)

12.15 - 12.30:  Self-test quiz - and Close

* Places strictly limited - book early to avoid disappointment