Language and Mind

Undergraduate · Historical course

January IAP 2009 · Neuropharmacology

The neuropharmacology course will discuss the drug-induced changes in functioning of the nervous system. The specific focus of this course will be to provide a description of the cellular and molecular actions of drugs on synaptic transmission. This course will also refer to specific diseases of the nervous system and their treatment in addition to giving an overview of the techniques used for the study of neuropharmacology. This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Readings

Meyer, Jerrold S., and Linda F. Quenzer. Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain and Behavior . 1st ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 2004. ISBN: 9780878935345.
Recommended
Nestler, Eric, Steven Hyman, and Robert Malenka. Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience . 2nd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008. ISBN: 9780071481274.
Recommended
Cooper, Jack R., Floyd E. Bloom, and Robert H. Roth. The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology . 8th ed. Oxford, USA: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195140088.
Recommended

January IAP 2003

Topics

The Atoms of Language
Introduction
Speech
Sentence Processing
Language Acquisition: Words
Neuroimaging of Language
Language Processing
Language Thought

Sources

Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare ↗January IAP 2009
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
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Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.