This course will examine how brain function regulates a broad range of mental processes and behaviors. We will discuss how neurons work and how the brain obtains information about the environment (sensory systems), regulates an organism’s response to the environment (motor systems), controls basic functions necessary for survival such as eating, drinking, sex, and sleep, and mediates higher cognitive function such as memory and language. We will also consider the consequences of brain malfunction as manifested in various forms of disease and mental illness.
Requisite: PSYC 100 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 75 students. Fall semester: Professor Turgeon. Spring semester: Professor Baird.
If Overenrolled: Priority to pre-registered students and then to declared majors, based on a lottery. Students dropped will have first priority the following semester.