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Apr 20, 2024
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IECD-568 Introduction to Brain Development4 semester credits
This course helps students to understand the relationship between the brain and social-emotional and cognitive development. Students learn how the brain develops during infancy, early childhood, and adolescence. The course reviews common methods used in the neurosciences for imaging the brain. It reviews current perspectives on experience-based brain development including issues of plasticity and critical periods in development. It discusses the role of the brain and neurotransmitter systems responsible for emotion regulation, cognitive control, communication, and reviews the brain mechanisms underlying a number of clinical problems including autism, anxiety, depression and aggression. This course reviews recently published peer-reviewed articles on brain research and neuroscience to achieve its learning objectives.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s): The primary objective is to have students develop a working understanding of the brain and nervous system as it relates to behavior. Behavior can be considered those perceptions, emotions, responses, and actions that occur within the range of normal function, as well as those that result from diseases, disorders, and other dysfunctions in the nervous system.
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the structures and functional mechanisms of the brain and nervous system.
- Express a thoughtful, integrated perspective of the brain in terms of how it relates to behavior.
- Demonstrate a developing understanding of how the above information may be reflected and/or applicable in real world circumstances.
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