Physiological Mechanisms of Social Behavior

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to junior/senior Physiological Science majors. Study of the interrelationships between social behavior, the social environment, physiology, and the brain. Students gain understanding of how a multitude of factors such as genes, cells, molecules, and the social environment interact to shape the physiological control of behavior; and how these factors can influence one another. Letter grading.