Transcript Behavioral Science - University of Illinois Archives

Behavioral Science
William Greenough: Course Director
Sari Aronson, Psychiatry, Dept. Head
Donna Korol, Psychology, Medicine
Art Kramer, Psychology
Sarah Mangelsdorf, Psychology
Mike Wilson, Teaching Assistant
Textbook: Human Behavior: An
Introduction for Medical
Students, 3rd edition, 1998
Editor Alan Stoudemire
Supplement to handouts
Course Objectives: Bases
•Many of the greatest health risk factors today
are behavioral
•Psychiatric disorders an obvious example
•Self-injurious behaviors such as smoking,
alcohol and drug abuse, poor dietary and
exercise habits, constitute the largest
controllable risk factors for mortality
•Behavior can put others at risk (e.g., ARND)
Course Objectives: Basis
• Knowledge of human behavior is a critical
tool of the physician.
• Behavior is a product of the biology of the
individual, physician or patient
• Behavior is not only your primary source of
information about your patients, it is also
your primary tool for restoring or improving
their health
Course Objectives
• To understand behavior and its origins in
the brain
• To begin to understand psychiatric
disorders and their treatment
• To understand basic issues of human
behavior
• To know about development across the
lifespan
Course Objectives
• To prepare for the Behavioral Science
component of Step I of the Boards!
Experience and the brain
• Brain organization reflects experience
• Early emotional trauma “damages” and
reorganizes the brain
• These changes can be modified by
additional experiences
• Drug therapies can over-ride these brain
changes but alone generally do not reverse
them