Neuroscience of Fear
Fall & Spring
| 3 credits
| Elective
Majors:
Biology,
Biomedicine,
Neuroscience,
and
Psychology
Humans share brain structures controlling the fear response with other mammals, birds, and reptiles. These structures have been evolutionarily preserved because fear helps protect us from danger, injury, and death. Although we are now further removed from the dangerous elements of nature, our primal fear instincts remain. This course will examine the evolutionary aspects of the fear response, and consider how it ties into decision-making and our everyday lives. This set of issues will be studied from a multidisciplinary perspective, synthesizing recent work from the fields of biology, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy.
Prerequisites
One year of biology or one semester of Introduction to Neuroscience, Physiological Psychology or Biological Psychology at the university level.
Instructors
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Mette Miriam Rakel Böll
Ph.D. Candidate (Aarhus University 2007 – present). Cand.scient. (Behavioral Biologist and biosemiotician University of Copenhagen, 2005) Industrial researcher and leadership advisor. With DIS since 2011.
