PSB 3441

Psychobiological Aspects of Drug Use

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Instructor Contact:

Instructor	Dr. Michael Dunn, Ph.D.
Instructor Office	Psychology Bldg. Rm. 343
Instructor Office Hours	Tues., 10:30-11:30 AM Tues., 1:00-3:00 PM, or by appointment
Instructor Phone	407-823-3083
Instructor E-mail	mdunn@mail.ucf.edu
Teaching Assistant Contact	Contact TAs through WebCT
Class Homepage	http://reach.ucf.edu/~psb3441a
Lab Website	http://www.surgucf.org
Instructor Homepage	http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~psych/mdunn

Course Description:

An advanced course focused on pharmacology and psychology as the foundation of understanding the effects of drugs that affect behavior including legal and illegal drugs.

Course Overview:

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge about all kinds of chemicals that have psychological and/or behavioral impact on the user. This information will be learned through study of the primary text by Levinthal and through material presented in class. I strongly believe in making class attendance a worthwhile experience. Therefore, the content of material presented in class will overlap somewhat with material presented in the texts, but there will also be a substantial amount of additional information presented in class. Class time will be spent alternating between lecture, questions asked of the class, cartoons illustrating key points, brief films illustrating course content, and class discussions. Course objectives are for students to understand basic pharmacology (such as how drugs are taken and how they act in the body), to gain factual knowledge about the effects of all types of drugs (licit and illicit), to develop critical thinking skills regarding psychopharmacology, and to explore philosophies that drive drug use and drug policy. I pay particular attention to exposing myths about a wide variety of drugs.

Texts and Materials:

-Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, 5th Edition 2008, by Charles Levinthal

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