Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience: Association between Depression and Anxiety and Cerebral Nervation

Course 22: Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience: Association between Depression and Anxiety and Cerebral Nervation

I. Course Description

Psychopathology is a discipline that studies mental illness and the behavior that triggers mental illness. Its research scope includes the causes, development, symptoms and treatment of various psychological diseases, and the classification and classification of various psychological diseases. It is important to point out in particular that psychopathology is not just a subject of different types of psychoses such as psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, but covers all types of mental disorders, such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and so on. Basic psychology research and knowledge courses that support a mechanistic understanding of human psychopathology.

This course begins with the biological basis of behavior (learning and motivation) and cognition (memory and attention), and develops your understanding of psychological disorders from a computational perspective. We cover the basic theories of psychology (animal models of learning and behavior) to understand the computational theory (error correction and free energy principles). These are applied together with the basic knowledge of neurobiology to pathology based on human psychology. The course also emphasizes the scientific methodology and the understanding of technology and theory.

II. Professor Introduction

Robin Murphy – Tentenured Professor at Oxford University

Robin Murphy Experimental psychology at Oxford university, is also a member of the admissions and computational psychopathology laboratory, head of Oxford university, the laboratory by the economic and social research council (ESRC) and the biotechnology and biological science research council (BBSRC) and other national institutions.

The professors contributions in academia were not limited to laboratory work, but also expanded to academic publishing. He has served as the consultant editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, and has made important contributions to the academic development of the field. In addition, the professor has published more than 50 scientific papers and chapters covering animal learning, human learning, attention, reasoning, and learning computational properties, which have had a wide impact in academia.

III. Syllabus

1. Associative analysis of experimental psychology and human behavior
2. Neurobiology of prediction error and learning
3. Instrument learning
4. Human psychopathology and individual differences
5. Depression
6. Fear and phobia
7. Placebo and curses, anorexia, and eating disorders
8. Schizophrenia and attention disorders
9. Forensic psychology: psychopathy
10. Criminal psychology: Criminal behavior and sex offenders