0530309 · Neurosciences and Behavior

وصف المادة (كما ورد في الخطة)

This course covers the study of the nervous system and special senses from the stand points of anatomy, histology and organization of the central and peripheral nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves including their motor and sensory functions in addition to the study of vision, hearing and chemical sense, cerebral cortex and intellectual functions, neurotransmission including its chemistry, receptors and neurotransmitters, and chemistry of vision. It also covers diseases of the central nervous system and organs of special senses including bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections, brain edema, hydrocephalus, vascular disturbances, trauma, congenital malformations, tumors, degenerative and immune-mediated disorders and the drugs used for the treatment of these diseases. The course also covers the clinical aspects of diseases that affect the central and peripheral nervous system as well as special senses. On the other side, this course covers theories of behavior, stress physiology, interventions to change behavior, life cycle, personality, motivation, biologic basis of behavior, sleep, social determinants of behavior, disorders of cognition, memory, mood and psychotic disorders. In addition, it covers perception and thinking, violence and suicide, human sexuality, death and dying, immune and risk behavior, physician patient relationship, eating and obesity, anxiety and dissociative disorders and mental health. Experienced people are invited to give lectures or a variety of interactive activities.

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