PSYC 091. Special Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience

Current issues in behavioral neuroscience are considered from both a clinical and an experimental perspective. Topics include learning and memory, with a focus on emotional memory and its relation to anxiety disorders; memory storage, with a focus on the impact of brain damage; neuropsychiatric and degenerative disorders, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases; psychopharmacology, with a focus on drug addiction.
Prerequisite: PSYC 001 and PSYC 030 or permission of the instructor.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for COGS
Catalog chapter: Psychology
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology

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