Neurobiology of Mood Disorders
Term: Spring 2024 - Full Term (01/23/2024 - 05/06/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 53391
Times & Locations
| Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location | |
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| 1/23/2024 | 5/6/2024 | MW | 10:10am - 11:30am | MCC 350 | |
| Final Exam | 5/15/2024 | 5/15/2024 | W | 10:30am - 12:30pm | MCC 350 |
Additional description
Neurobiological and neurochemical substrates underlying various psychopathologies, using both animal models and human data. Study of disorders from the field of biological psychiatry including aggression, anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, unipolar depression, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The effectiveness of current behavioral and pharmacological therapy. Prerequisites: PSYC 402; PSYC 502; PSYC 531; or permission. Writing intensive.
Examples of concepts with which you will become familiar:
• Emotional circuitry of the brain
o Limbic system o Emotional circuitry
o Extended amygdala and cortex
• Importance of monoamines
• Hippocampal neurogenesis
• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment for mood disorders
Booklist
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CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION
(11)
by SUCHY Recommended
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PUBL.MAN.OF AM.PSYCH.ASSOC. (PB)
(7TH 20)
by AM.PSYCH.ASSN. Required
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SPRING
(18)
by KNAUSGAARD Required
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NEUROSCIENCE OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR
(18)
by VANHEERINGEN Required
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