I'm currently interested in techniques that facilitate student success at the undergraduate, graduate and medical school levels. My primary interest is fostering a growth mindset and meeting the ever-change and diverse needs of students, using the fields of neuroscience and psychology as a framework.
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Neurobiology of eating, Neural mechanisms of taste and brain-gut interactions, Techniques for effective teaching in medical, graduate and undergraduate populations
NRSC 4072 - Clinical Neuroscience: A Clinical and Pathological Perspective
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Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
Provides a review of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system and then explores how alterations in these systems can result in neurologic or psychiatric disorders. Emphasizes pathological neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuropharmacology, which is essential for understanding problems related to health and disease. Same as NRSC 5072.
PSYC 1001 - General Psychology
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Provides a foundation for engaging with scientific research on human behavior, and surveys the basic principles and theories of psychology. Topics include biological and hereditary influences on behavior; human perception, attention, learning, and memory; social influences; personality; psychiatric disorders and treatments.
PSYC 2012 - Biological Psychology
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Surveys biological bases of learning, motivation, emotion, sensory processes and perception, movement,comparative animal behavior, sexual and reproductive activity, instinctual behavior, neurobiology of language and thought, and neurophysiology and neuroanatomy in relation to behavior.
PSYC 2111 - Psychological Science I: Statistics
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Fall 2018 / Summer 2019 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021
Three hours of lecture and one two-hour lab per week. Introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and their roles in psychological research. Topics include correlation, regression, T-test, analysis of variance and selected nonparametric statistics.
PSYC 3111 - Psychological Science 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Provides a foundation in research methodology to give students the ability to design, conduct, analyze, and present (both verbally and in writing) an empirical study in psychology. Allows students to be effective producers and consumers of research.
