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PSYC 395 - Special Topics in Psychology


Credits: 1, 2, or 3
When Offered: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.



Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.These seminars are designed to help the advanced student integrate his or her knowledge of specific fields into a comprehensive view of psychology, both as a science and as a profession. Specific topics vary and are determined, in part, by student demand. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall, 2009:

PSYC 395 (NEUR 395): Psychophysiology of Pain and Stress (3). Prerequisites: PSYC 111 and 250 or NEUR 120. The sense of pain is crucially important to survival, since it allows the organism to escape from potentially harmful stimuli and promotes avoidance of them in the future. This course examines: the physiology of pain and the relationship between stress and pain; pain plasticity and chronic pain conditions; and examples of group differences (sex, race, culture, etc.) in pain sensitivity and their hypothesized psychophysiological bases. Mechlin
 





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