NNCI for Medical Students: Trauma and Epigenetics — Borderline Personality Disorder

Contributing Authors: Mayada Akil, MD and Joseph J. Cooper, MD

Overview: This is a medical student educational adaptation of previously published NNCI resources by Jenny Dwyer, MD, PhD and Michael Jibson, MD, PhD. Here we use parts of these modules to create one 60-90-minute teaching session focused on the level of a medical student. .

Author Affiliation: Dr. Mayada Akil is from Georgetown University and Dr. Joseph Cooper is from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The NNCI is supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant Nos. R25 MH086466-07S1 and R44 MH115546-02 and with additional funding from the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. ©National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative.