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staff. Prerequisite(s): BIBB 109/PSYC 109. The course will begin with a review of basic concepts in pharmacology: routes of drug administration, drug metabolism, the dose response curve, tolerance and sensitization. Following a brief overview of cellular foundations of neuropharmacology (cell biology,synaptic and receptor function), the course will focus on various classes of drugs used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders including, among others, depression, schizophrenia and anxiety. We will additionall consider mechanisms mediating the mind-altering, addictive and neurotoxic effects of abused drugs.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Living World. Class of 2009 & prior only. Grill. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. This course focuses on evaluating the experiments that have sought to establish links between brain structure (the activity of specific brain circuits) and behavioral function (the control of particular motivated and emotional behaviors). Students are exposed to concepts from regulatory physiology, systems neuroscience, pharmacology, and endocrinology and read textbook as well as original source materials. The course focuses on the following behaviors: feeding, sex, fear, anxiety, the appetite for salt, and food aversion. The course also considers the neurochemical control of responses with an eye towards evaluating the development of drug treatments for: obesity, anorexia/cachexia, vomiting, sexual dysfunction, anxiety disorders, and depression.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Living World. Class of 2009 & prior only. Seyfarth/Cheney/White. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 00l or BIOL 102. The evolution of social behavior in animals, with special emphasis on group formation, cooperation among kin, mating systems, territoriality and communication.
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Dahan. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 or LING 101. A CGS section may be offered. This course describes the nature of human language, how it is used to speak and comprehend, and how it is learned. Subtopics include animal communication, language pathologies, second-language learning, and language in special populations (such as Down Syndrome and autistic children, and children born deaf or blind).
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staff. Prerequisite(s): BIBB 109, or one year of introductory biology or permission of instructor. This course is designed to examine the various roles played by the nervous and endocrine systems in controlling both physiological processes and behavior. First, the course will build a foundation in the concepts of neural and endocrine system function. Then we will discuss how these mechanisms form the biological underpinnings of various behaviors and their relevant physiological correlates. We will focus on sexual and parental behaviors, aggression and ingestion.
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Living World Sector. All classes. Thompson-Schill/Epstein. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 or BIBB 109. A CGS section may be given. There is no recitation section for Dr. Epstein's lecture course. The study of the neural systems that underlie human perception, memory and language; and of the pathological syndromes that result from damage to these systems.
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Trueswell. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. A CGS section may be given. A Benjamin Franklin Seminar version of this course may be offered. See current timetable. Analysis of mental processes in adult humans: Attention, Pattern recognition, Imagery, Memory, Action. Mental architecture.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Formal Reasoning & Analysis. Class of 2009 & prior only. Baron. Prerequisite(s): one semester of statistics OR microeconomics. A CGS section may be given. Judgments, decisions under certainty and uncertainty, problem solving, logic, rationality, and moral thinking.
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Jha. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 or BIBB 109. A study of topics in human memory and attention including an overview of current experiments investigating: multiple memory systems, attentional selection, the interrelationship between memory and attention, dysfunction due to disease states and aging, exceptional functioning, and strategies to improve memory and attentional processes. Particular emphasis is given to the neural basis of cognitive processes.
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Kahana. An introduction to the scientific study of humn memory, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between theory and experiment. Topics will include dual store models and the debate over short-term meory, recognition memory for items and associations, the role of time and context in memory formation and retrieval, theories of association, memory for sequences, the influence of prior knowledge on new learning, spatial and navigational memory, perceptual learning, classification and function learning, memory diorders, and developmental changes in memory function.
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