Coursera: Drugs and the Brain

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Joulukuussa alkaa viisi viikkoa kestävä verkkokurssi lääkkeistä/huumeista neurotieteen näkökulmasta. Kurssille voi osallistua kuka tahansa aiheesta kiinnostunut Coursera-palvelussa: https://www.coursera.org/course/drugsandbrain

Drugs and the Brain
Henry A. Lester
The neuroscience of drugs for therapy, for prevention, and for recreation. You’ll learn the prospects for new generations of medications in psychiatry, aging, and treatment of substance abuse.

About the Course
What happens in the body when a person smokes a cigarette? After several weeks of smoking? When a person takes antidepressant or antipsychotic medication? A drug for pain or migraine? A recreational drug? Neuroscientists are beginning to understand these processes. You’ll learn how drugs enter the brain, how they act on receptors and ion channels, and how “molecular relay races” lead to changes in nerve cells and neural circuits that far outlast the drugs themselves. “Drugs and the Brain” also describes how scientists are gathering the knowledge required for the next steps in preventing or alleviating Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and drug abuse.

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