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2025-2026 Catalog

HBIO 123 - Mind and Brain

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to provide an overview of scientific study of the brain, focusing on topics of broad interest. Material will be presented by the course director as well as several neuroscientists from other institutions who will, as guest lecturers, present material related to their expertise and research. Course topics include drugs and the brain; mental health and emotion; appetite and eating; philosophy of mind, memory, attention and thought; the neuroscience of aging; artificial intelligence; and language and communication. HBIO 123 may not be applied as an elective in the Biology major.