The Biology of Mental Illness

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Taught by John Borghi

John Borghi is a science librarian and research support specialist at The Rockefeller University in Manhattan. Though he spent his formative years in the suburbs of Massachusetts, he has lived in New York for the last five years- earning a Ph.D. in Integrative Neuroscience from Stony Brook University in 2013. Find him on Twitter @JohnBorghi.

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Since the mid twentieth century, psychologists, psychiatrists, and neuroscientists have sought to explain mental illness in biological terms.

We'll discuss the emergence of influential biological models such as the monoamine hypothesis of depression, the rise of neuropsychopharmacology (the prescription and widespread use of medications such Prozac and Zoloft), and the complexity of studying complex conditions like generalized anxiety and schizophrenia in biological terms.

You'll come away with both how much we currently know about the relationship between mental illness and brain activity and the huge amount we still have to learn.

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