Psychology
PSYC 4514: Clinical Neuroscience
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Explores the neurobiological, genetic, and neurochemical etiology of mental illness as described and categorized according to the DSM.
- Discusses how psychology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and medicine come together to manage mental illness.
- Investigates, for each specific mental illness covered, how changes in physiology and biology might manifest in the aberrant behaviors that define psychopathology.
- Lastly, examines how pharmacology is often used to treat these various mental illnesses and how genetic expression is involved in predisposing some people to these disorders while sparing others.
Explores the neurobiological, genetic, and neurochemical etiology of mental illness as described and categorized according to the DSM. Show more.
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