Psychological & Brain Sciences 591CD - S-Clinical Dev Neuroscience

This seminar will explore the brain structures and functions that underpin mental disorders emerging early in life and across the lifespan. Topics include how brain architecture develops from before birth through adulthood, how the environment and caregiving shape the brain in at-risk children, and important and recent neuroscience discoveries that are moving the field away from a siloed, DSM-centric view of mental illness and toward a more dimensional, transdiagnostic framework. Students will consider and debate the merits and shortcomings of neuroscience research to change the lives of those with mental illness, and how translational neuroscience can, and should, inform the future of diagnostic and treatment practices.

Open to Senior and Junior Psychology majors only. Pre Req: PSYCH 241