This lecture provides an overview of depression (epidemiology and course of the disorder), clinical presentation, somatic co-morbidity, and treatment options.

A basic introduction to clinical presentation of schizophrenia, its etiology, and current treatment options.

An overview of some of the essential concepts in neuropharmacology (e.g. receptor binding, agonism, antagonism), an introduction to pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, and an overview of the drug discovery process relative to diseases of the Central Nervous System.

Introductory presentation on how data science can help with scientific reproducibility.

This talk highlights a set of platform technologies, software, and data collections that close and shorten the feedback cycle in research.