Subject: Neuroscience
Credit units: 3
Offered: Term 2 only
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Medicine
Department: Anat Physio Pharma

This course will focus on how drugs affect behaviour by altering brain processes such as perception, learning and memory, and the abnormal recruitment of neural circuits involved in motivation and reward. Recent technical advancements have allowed for significant progress in understanding how drugs affect brain function, and particular attention will be paid to these emerging techniques. Students will actively contribute to generating the content for this course.

Prerequisite(s): NEUR 301.3 and NEUR 350.3
Note: Students in the Biomedical Neuroscience major will be given preferential access to register in this course.

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