NUTR 460Nutritional Neuroscience
This course explores how food affects behavior and the brain, and vice versa: how neural circuits and gut hormones control eating and other behaviors. Throughout the course we will dissect the proverb ¿You are what you eat¿, and examine the effect of diet and body weight on behavior and cognition. Links between pathology and dysfunction in the gut and neurological and psychiatric diseases, including addiction, autism or Alzheimer¿s will also be explored. This course will cover current nutritional neuroscience findings from both animal models and human studies. We will also emphasize critical evaluation of nutritional neuroscience topics.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “( NUTR 251 or BIOL 161 ) and ( BIOL 163 or BIOL 141 or PSYCH 260 or PSYCH 260A ) Recommended Preparation: At least 4 semesters of nutrition or physiology or neuroscience or psychology courses.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Neurobiology, B.S.
- Systems Neuroscience, B.S.