Course Description
Behavioral neurobiology of stress.
When Taught
Fall
Min
3
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Prerequisite
Fulfill ANY of the following requirements:
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
- 08996-002
OR
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
- 09935-001
Note
Contains content featured in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
Title
Understanding Stress and Disease
Learning Outcome
1. Describe how stress affects physiology and contributes to physical disease. Be able to critically think about how stress perception and physiology interact as we adapt to our life contexts, and how failure to adapt contributes to disease.
Title
Understanding Stress Responses
Learning Outcome
2. Understand the factors that moderate stress experience, particularly how cognition, emotion, behavior, social relationships, and culture can shape the stress response.
Title
Managing Stress for Well-Being
Learning Outcome
3. Learn to use stress management and biofeedback techniques, and building on class material create your own personalized integrative health plan. Be able to self-assess your own life stressors and identify which approaches to stress management best help you learn to regulate your stress response and harness stress energy for positive outcomes.
