PSYC 036. Clinical Neuroscience

This course examines how disruption in brain systems can give rise to cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms in neuropsychiatric disorders. We will focus on a mechanistic approach to psychopathology that emphasizes neural circuits and large-scale brain networks, integrating evidence from neuroimaging, lesion studies, neuromodulation, behavioral and basic science research. Topics will include disorders involving cognitive control, reward and motivation, emotion regulation, perception, and belief, with attention to how these core cognitive and neural processes vary across individuals and cut across traditional diagnostic categories. Throughout the course, we will emphasize how insights from basic neuroscience are translated to clinical science, linking neural mechanisms to symptoms and to current and emerging approaches to treatment.
Prerequisite: PSYC 001
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Fall 2026. Chen.
Catalog chapter: Psychology
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/psychology

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