The focus of this course is "Stress and Disease". Students will learn about the neural circuits and biochemical mechanisms underlying the body's response to stress and how stress affects disease vulnerability. The bulk of the reading material for this course will consist of peer-reviewed research and review articles, with the primary focus on pre-clinical studies in animals. Students are expected to actively participate during class discussion, give presentations, and develop a research project proposal.

Introduction to mental retardation; its psychological, sociological, educational, biomedical, and legal aspects. Prerequisite: introductory psychology.

Research in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience is constantly revealing new facts about how we see, hear, speak, move, recognize, remember, learn, and reason. The goal of these scientific studies is to explain these mental processes thoroughly and completely. However, many people feel that there is something about our consciousness or inner mental life that can never be explained by any scientific theory, no matter how advanced. In this seminar, we will ask what consciousness is, and will assess what current science can tell us about it.

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