This unit describes how complex phenomenological and behavioural dysfunctions, such as schizophrenia and major affective disorders, are produced by abnormalities of brain function. The lectures go into detail on system, cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms of selected psychiatric disorders and the therapeutic action of medications for those disorders. Laboratories cover stereotaxic surgical procedures for the localisation of drug effects on behaviour to specific brain regions. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Mathew Martin-Iverson
Prerequisites: PHYL2002 Physiology of Cells or PHYL2245 Physiology of Cells or equivalent
