Anatomy of Risk and Resilience: The Biology of Stress.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Designed to expose students to the fundamental mechanisms underlying the influence of endocrinology on behavior with a particular emphasis on risk and resilience. Sex as a biological variable will be a key point of the curriculum. Emphasis will be placed on the cellular and molecular aspects of the biology of sex, stress, adaptation and survival. The course will also address implications of neuroendocrine dysfunction for mental diseases. The course consists of one online module a week related to fundamental information pertinent to understanding neuroendocrinology and a second in-person meeting devoted to a student-led discussion of scientific papers related to the module covered in that week (one-hour discussion).