Psychopharmacology: Substances and the Brain

Psychopharmacology: Substances and the BrainSemester Course

Psychopharmacology: Substances and the Brain, Core Course

Program: Neuroscience
Week-Long Study Tour: Frankfurt-Heidelberg or Munich
Core Course Week Study Tour: Southern Sweden or Denmark
Major Discipline(s): Biomedicine / Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Pre-Medicine / Health Science
Course End Date Note: This course will last run in the semester of Spring 2025 and will be replaced by Psychopharmacology: Substances and the Brain.

Type: Core Course
Available: Fall/Spring semester
Credit(s): 3

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

Learn how the brain’s physiology is affected in different psychiatric disorders and under the influence of various psychoactive drugs. Course topics are approached from a biological, chemical, and physiological perspective. Study concepts including neurotransmitters, basic neurobiology, psychiatric disorders, and psychoactive drugs.

Related Discipline(s)

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

Faculty

Jesper T. Andreasen

DIS Copenhagen Semester Faculty

Ph.D. (Psychopharmacology, University of Copenhagen, 2009). M.Sc. (Psychopharmacology, University of Copenhagen, 2004). Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. With DIS since 2012.

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.

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