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2020-2021 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  May 01, 2024
 
2020-2021 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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MSNBIO 2614 - NEUROPHARMACOLOGY


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will broadly review neuropharmacology and neurobiology, study monoamine, cholinergic, and GPCR biology, and explore the blood-brain barrier and its significance to neuropharmacology. The course will focus on the molecular mechanisms of a drug action for different classes of compounds including, but not limited to, antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-epileptics, anesthetics, weight loss, stimulants, neuroprotective, addiction, pain, and migraine drugs. In addition to the formal lectures the course will emphasize critical reading of the primary literature through journal-club style discussions and cover the most recent treatment and therapeutic avenues being developed for a broad range of neurologic and psychiatric disorders. The course is ideally suited for Molecular Pharmacology and Neuroscience graduate students or any other graduate student with an interest in neurological diseases and their treatments. The course is also appropriate for pre-professional undergraduates who have completed 4 semesters of chemistry and 2 semesters of biology.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis


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