PSY720 - Contemporary Problems
- Course Coordinator: P.J. Bennett
- Meeting time & place: 2:30-5:30, PC-311
PSY720 Modules
- Module 1: Cognition/Perception (September 15, 22, 29) [module outline]
- Instructor: David Shore
- Module readings can be obtained here. Copies of the first reading, by Rock and Harris, will be distributed in class on Monday, September 8. [Page 149 of Rock and Harris can be obtained here.]
- Module 2: Developmental (October 6, 20, 27) [module outline]
- Instructor: Louis Schmidt
Readings:
- Lui et al., (1997). Maternal care, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress. Science, 277, 1659-1662.
- Francis et al., (1999). Nongenomic transmission across generations of maternal behavior and stress responses in the rat. Science, 286, 1155-1158.
- Weaver, et al. (2004). Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 847-854.
- Szfy, et al. (2008). The social environment and the epigenome. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 49, 46-60.
- Coe, C.L., & Lubach, G.R. (2008). Fetal programming: Prenatal origins of health and illness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 36-41.
- Barker, J.P. (2002). Fetal programming of coronary heart disease. Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 13, 364-368.
- Drake, A.J., & Walker, B.R. (2004). The intergenerational effects of fetal programming: Non-genomic mechanism for the inheritance of low birth weight and cardiovascular risk. Journal of Endocrinology, 180, 1-16.
- Module 3: Systems and Behavioural Neuroscience (November 10, 24, Dec 1)
- Instructor: Sue Becker
- Module 3 outline and readings can be obtained here.
- Module 4: Systems and Behavioural Neuroscience (January 5, 12, 19)
- Module 5: Cognition/Perception (January 26, February 2, 9)
- Module 6: Evolution/Social (February 23, March 2, 9)
- Module 7: Physiological Psychology(March 16, 23, 30)