NSC 313 - Neuropharmacology & Cell Signaling

Course unit(s): 1
Prerequisite(s): BIO 175 From Organisms to Molecules or permission of instructor
A critical discussion of pharmacology and signal transduction in a broad range of signaling pathways particular to the nervous system. Course lectures will introduce the evolving perspectives and methods of cell and network physiology, signaling mechanisms and their regulation, as well as the actions of drugs on those mechanisms. Students who complete this course will be able to describe, at an integrative level, the chemical signals that underlie behavior as well as the drugs that modulate these
signals so as to change behavior. Topics discussed will include neurotransmitter systems, the neural substrates of drug action, pharmacokinetics, neuropeptides, and the possible neuropharmacology of neural disorders.