PSYC 735 (01) - Neurobiology of Mood Disorders

Neurobiology of Mood Disorders

Durham   Liberal Arts :: Psychology
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Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2024 - Full Term (01/23/2024 - 05/06/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   20  
CRN: 53391
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.
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Prerequisite(s): (PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and PSYC 531) or (NSB 500 and NSB 501 and NSB 502 and NSB 503)
Only listed campus in section: Durham
Classes not allowed in section: Freshman
Only listed majors in section: NEUROSCI LA, NEUROSCI LSA, PSYCHOLOGY
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course
Instructors: Elizabeth Caldwell

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
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
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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