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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
The exam can be taken only after having passed and recorded Psychobiology I.
Objectives Contents Advanced Psychobiology.The course provides a deepening of some psychobiological topics, with particular attention to higher cognitive functions and the neurobiological substrate of the main mental diseases.
Extended Syllabus Elements of cerebral macroanatomy: cerebral lobes, principal gyri and sulci. Spinal Control of Movement; Brain Control of Movement; Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior; Motivation; Sex and the Brain; Brain Mechanisms of Emotion; Brain Rhythms and Sleep; Language; The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness; Mental Illness; Wiring the Brain; Memory Systems; Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Recommended Bibliography Bear, Connors, Paradiso. Neuroscience. Exploring the brain. Wolters Kluwer. Fourth edition 2016
Teaching Methods The course contents are presented through lessons in lecture hall, taking advantage of power point slides (made available to the students) and explicative videos.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The examination is written. Written exam is made up of 30 multiple-choice questions.
Contacts/More Information It is possible to participate to the scientific meetings organized by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.neuropsicolab@gmail.com , asking for signing up to the newsletter.
