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University of Alberta Calendar 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

PSYCI 511 - Biological Aspects of Psychiatry

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Medicine and Dentistry
Department Psychiatry
Typically Offered second term

Description
Lectures and seminars on: classification, description and measurement of psychiatric disorders; sleep disorders; biochemical theories of psychiatric disorders, and discussions of how the actions of the drugs used to treat these disorders relate to these theories; practical aspects of drug treatment; biological markers; brain imaging; women’s health issues; herbal products and psychiatry. Prerequisite: Permission of Department.