Module code: PSY7012-B
This module will examine the psychobiological control of functions such as consciousness, locomotion, emotion, pain, eating, sleep and reproductive behaviour. You will investigate the role of biology in pathologies such as eating disorders, autistic spectrum disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, substance abuse amongst other neurological disorders such as epilepsy and traumatic brain injury. The module explores how our knowledge of the structure and function of the nervous system has given rise to current biological/pharmacological treatments of psychiatric and degenerative pathologies.
- History of psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience.
- Biological approaches to personality development and individual difference.
- Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- Rods and cones, spectral sensitivity, introduction to colour vision.
- Neural communication and psychopharmacology.
- Research techniques used in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Psychiatric disorders (Depression, Anxiety and Schizophrenia) and their biological/pharmacological treatments.
- Role of hormones on the control of brain function and the control of the `master` gland (pituitary) by brain mechanisms.
- Neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer, Parkinson).