Neuroscience of Fear and AnxietySemester Course

Neuroscience of Fear
Major Discipline(s)
Biomedicine / Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Psychology
Course End Date Note
This course will last run in the semester of Spring 2025 and will be replaced by Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety.
Type
Elective Course
Available
Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s)
3

Course note: This course will begin running as a Core Course for the fall 2025 semester. It will continue to run as an elective course for fall 2024 and spring 2025.

Fear is a multifaceted term that can be explained anatomically, biologically, and psychologically. This course begins by illustrating the cause and effects of fear on an anatomical and functional level, followed by demonstrating the physiological, psychological, and evolutionary aspects. Several theories and concepts behind unconsciousness, perception, and emotion are introduced in order to facilitate discussions covering fear in everyday life, as well as fear as a component of dysfunctional behaviors.

Related Discipline(s)

This course would also be of interest to the following discipline(s):
Biology

Faculty

Bettina Hornbøll Borch

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

Ph.D. (Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen, 2017). M.Sc. (Neurobiology, University of Copenhagen, 2006). B.A. (Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2004). Founder of CogniCation; cognitive communication. Has been conducting neuroscience research for approx. 10 years, investigating emotion processing in the brain using imaging. With DIS since 2012.

S&H Bettina Hornboll Borch