Required Text:
- Carlson, N. R. & Birkett, M. A. (2021). Physiology of behavior. (13th ed.). Pearson Education, Inc.
Week 1 - Course Introduction - Network Medicine Dr Nierenberg
- Greene, J.A., & Loscalzo, J. (2017). Putting the Patient Back Together-Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism. The New England Journal of Medicine, 377(25), 2493. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms1706744
- Kraneveld, A. D., Theije, C., Heesh, F. Borre, Y., Kivit, S., Olivier, B., Korte, M., & Garssen, J. (2014). The Neuro-Immune Axis: Prospect for Novel Treatments for Mental Disorders. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, 114(1), 128-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcpt.12154
Week 2 - Electrical and Chemical Communication of Neurons Dr Fins
- Textbook Chapter 2- Structure and Functions of Cells of the Nervous System (Topics - Communication within a neuron to the end of the chapter)
- Textbook Chapter 4 - Psychopharmacology (Topics - Sites of Drug Action to the end of the chapter)
- D’Antongiovanni V, Pellegrini C, Antonioli L, et al. (2024). Enteric glia and brain astroglia: Complex communication in health and disease along the gut-brain axis. The Neuroscientist, 30(4), 493-510. https://doi.org/10.1177/10738584231163460
- Ekstrand, B., Scheers, N., Rasmussen, M. K., Young, J. F., Ross, A. B., & Landberg, R. (2021). Brain foods - the role of diet in brain performance and health. Nutrition Reviews, 79(6), 693–708, https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuaa091
Week 3 - Electrical and Chemical Communication of Neurons continued Dr. Fins
Same readings as above
Week 4 - Peripheral Nervous System - Structures of the Central Nervous System Dr. Matthies
- Textbook Chapter 3 - Structure of the Nervous System
- Becker, J. H., Lin, J. J., Doernberg, M., Stone, K., Navis, A., Festa, J. R., & Wisnivesky, J. P. (2021). Assessment of cognitive function in patients after COVID-19 infection. JAMA Network Open, 4(10), Article e2130645. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.30645
- Feuillet, L., Dufour, H., & Pelletier, J. (2007). Brain of a white-collar worker. Lancet, 370(9583),262. https://doi.org/mimas.calstatela.edu/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61127-1
Week 5 - Basic Introduction to Hormones Dr. Matthies
- Bogaert,A. F., & Skorska, M. N. (2020). A short review of biological research on the development of sexual orientation. Hormones and Behavior, 119. 104669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104659
- Hodgetts, S., & Hausmann, M. (2020). Antipsychotic effects of sex hormones and atypical hemispheric asymmetries. Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 127, 313–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.016
- Peper, J. S. & Dahl, R. E. (2013). The Teenage Brain: Surging hormones - Brain-behavior interactions during puberty. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(2), 134-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721412473755
- Nelson, R. J. (2010). Hormones and behavior: Basic concepts. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2, 97-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00236-9
Week 6 - Sleep physiology - Sleep disorders Dr. Fins
- Chapter 9 - Sleep and Biological Rhythms
- Billings, M. E., Cohen, R. T., Baldwin, C. M., Johnson, D. A., Palen, B. N., Parthasarathy, S., Patel, S. R., Russell, M., Tapia, I. E., Williamson, A. A., Sharma, S. (2020). Disparities in sleep health and potential intervention models: A focused review. Chest, 159(3),1232-1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.09.249
- Sabia, S., Fayosse, A., Dumurgier, J., van Hees, V. T., Paquet, C., Sommerlad, A., ... &Singh-Manoux, A. (2021). Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22354-2
Week 7 - Human Communication, Hemispheric Specialization and Lateralization Dr. Matthies
- Chapter 14 – Human Communication
- Nasios, G., Dardiotis, E., & Messinis, L. (2019). From Broca and Wernicke to the neuromodulation era: Insights of brain language networks for neurorehabilitation. Behavioural Neurology, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9894571
- Petitto, L. A., & Marentette, P. F. (1991). Babbling in the manual mode: Evidence for the ontogeny of language. Science, 251(5000), 1493–1496. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2006424
- Prichard, E. C., & Christman, S.D. 2020). Handedness and the 2016 US Primaries: Consistent handedness predicts support for Donald among Republicans, but gender predicts support for Hillary Clinton among Democrats. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 25(6), 641–653. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2020.1810061
Week 8 - Learning and Memory Dr. Matthies
- Chapter 13 – Learning and Memory
- Milner, B., Corkin, S., & Teuber, H.L. (1968). Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up study of H M. Neuropsychologia, 6(3): 215–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(68)90021-3 Ask the library for Interlibrary loan.
- Moore, D., & Loprinzi, P. D. (2021). Exercise influences episodic memory via changes in hippocampal neurocircuitry and long-term potentiation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54(8), 6960–6971. https://doi.org.mimas.calstatela.edu/10.1111/ejn.14728
- White, N. M., Packard, M. G., & McDonald, R. J. (2013). Dissociation of memory systems: The story unfolds. Behavioral Neuroscience, 127(6), 813–834. https://doi.org/mimas.calstatela.edu/10.1037/a0034859
Week 9 - Substance Use/Addiction/Reward - Substance Use Disorders Dr. Nierenberg
- Chapter 19 Substance Abuse
- McHugh, R. K., Votaw, V. R., Sugarman, D. E., & Greenfield, S. F. (2018). Sex and gender differences in substance use disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 66, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.10.012
- Blanco, C., & Volkow, N. D. (2019). Management of opioid use disorder in the USA: Present status and future directions. The Lancet, 393(10182), 1760-1772. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33078-2
Week 10 - Somatosenses -Somatosensory pathways -Perception of Pain Dr. Nierenberg
- Chapter 7 - Audition, the Body Senses, and the Chemical Senses (Topics - Somatosenses to Gustation)
- Jensen, M. P., & Turk, D. C. (2014). Contributions of psychology to the understanding and treatment of people with chronic pain: Why it matters to ALL psychologists. American Psychologist, 69(2), 105- 118. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035641
- Alschuler, K. N., Kratz, A. L., & Ehde, D. M. (2016). Resilience and vulnerability in individuals with chronic pain and physical disability. Rehabilitation Psychology, 61(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000055
Week 11 - Emotion Dr. Fins
- Chapter 11 - Emotion
- Grasser, L. R., & Jovanovic T. (2022). Neural impacts of stigma, racism, and discrimination. Biological Psychiatry Cognition Neuroscience Neuroimaging,7(12),1225- 1234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.06.012
- Stevens, F. L., & Abernethy, A. D. (2018). Neuroscience and racism: The power of groups for overcoming implicit bias. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 684, 561- 584. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2017.131 5583
Week 12 - Physiology of stress response -Stress disorders and anxiety disorders Dr. Fins
- Chapter 17 – Stress, Anxiety, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Topics - Physiology of the Stress Response to Autism Spectrum Disorder)
- Allen, J. O., Watkins, D. C., Mezuk, B., Chatters, L., & Johnson-Lawrence, V. (2020). Mechanisms of racial health disparities: Relationships between coping and psychological and physiological stress responses. Ethnicity and Disease, 30(4), 563- 573. https://doi.org/10.18865/ed.30.4.563 Ask the library for Interlibrary loan.
- Boen, C. (2019). Death by a thousand cuts: Stress exposure and Black- White disparities in physiological functioning in late life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(9), 1937- 1950. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz06
- Guidi, J., Lucente, M., Sonino, N, & Fava, G. A. (2021). Allostatic load and its impact on health: A systematic review. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 90(1), 11-27. https://doi.org/ 10.1159/000510696
Week 13 - Psychiatric Disorders (schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder) and their common pharmacological treatments Dr. Matthies
- Chapter 4 - Psychopharmacology Chapter 17 - Schizophrenia and the Affective Disorders
- Bresnahan, M., Begg, M. D., Brown, A., Schaefer, C., Sohler, N., Insel, B., ... & Susser, E. (2007). Race and risk of schizophrenia in a US birth cohort: Another example of health disparity? International Journal of Epidemiology, 36(4), 751-758. https:// doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym041
- Misra, S., Jackson, V. W., Chong, J., Choe, K., Tay, C., Wong, J., & Yang, L. H. (2021). Systematic review of cultural aspects of stigma and mental illness among racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States: Implications for interventions. American Journal of Community Psychology, 68, 486–512. https://doi.org/mimas.calstatela.edu/10.1002/ajcp.12516
- Preston, J. and Moore, B.A. (2019). Quick Reference to Psychiatric Medications
- Sousa Júnior, G. M. de, Vargas, H. D. Q., Barbosa, F. F., & Galvão-Coelho, N. L. (2021). Stress, memory, and implications for major depression. Behavioural Brain Research, 412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.20 21.113410
Week 14 - Student panel presentations
Week 15 - Student panel presentations
Week 16 - Student panel presentations