NEUR-3914: Neuroscience of Drug Addiction
Description: History of addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease. Neurocircuitry and molecular basis of the brain affected by common drugs of abuse. Overview of the use, abuse, liability, and psychotherapeutic effects of drugs on humans. Common classes of drug abuse: alcohol, sedatives, tobacco/ nicotine, opiods, cannabinoids, psychostimulants, psychedelics, steroids, anti-anxiety, antidepressants, and antipsychotics. Animal models in drug addiction studies. Current and future pharmacotherapeutics for drug addiction treatment and ethical considerations of treatments.
Pathways: N/A
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 11
Average GPA: 3.36 (rounds to B+)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 44.84%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.63%
| Aparna P Shah | 2024 | 50.0% | 41.3% | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.45 | 1 |
| Matthew Buczynski | 2023 | 52.9% | 34.2% | 8.4% | 3.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 3.36 | 5 |
| William M Howe | 2024 | 56.0% | 32.9% | 7.2% | 2.5% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 3.34 | 5 |