Neuroscience of the Mind

5 credits

Explores the capacity for flexible neural processing changes across the lifespan, and what may go awry in disorders of mental health and behavioral control. Provides a fundamental understanding of the dynamic, often reciprocal, relationship between brain neuroplasticity and a variety of complex behaviors (e.g. learning, memory, decision, language), including their modulation by social factors, development, aging, disease, and brain injury. Prerequisite: PSYCH 101; PSYCH 202; and PSYCH 209. Offered: AWSpS.