NSO 530 Behavioral Neurobiology
Behavioral Neuroscience explores the biological (anatomical, physiological, genetic, and molecular) and environmental variables that regulate cognitive processes and behavior.
This course is designed to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of these cognitive processes and behavioral outputs and explore the dysfunction of these processes in the context of disease or illness. The “Introduction to Neuroscience” course provided fundamental knowledge and primarily relied on textbook materials in a lecture format. In contrast, this course examines and discusses selected, timely topics on the biological basis of behavior using primary source materials and a graduate seminar style. Students read the primary source materials assigned BEFORE each class and prepare answers to the distributed questions. Students also will be expected to contribute to discussions by describing and criticizing the assigned readings as well as explaining other relevant published work that they find.
Prerequisite
Medical Neurobiology