NRP-602: Brain and Behavior

In Brain and Behavior, students investigate how specific components of the nervous system give rise to distinctive behaviors and how pathological changes within the nervous system contribute to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Students learn clinically relevant structures, pathways, circuits, and vascular relationships within the brain and spinal cord and how they relate to consciousness, language, memory, dementia, stroke, addiction, and other common disorders. Students practice counseling techniques for neuropsychobehavioral conditions, specialized clinical history taking (including DSM), and physical and laboratory assessment of common neurological and psychological disorders. [ 7 credits ]