Neuropharmacology is the study of drugs and their interaction with the brain to alter cellular function at a molecular level. The material covered by this course includes: principles of drug-receptor interactions; dose-response curves; drug mechanisms of action; drugs as tools to achieve knowledge of cell macromolecule structure and function and discovery of new drugs since this topic is being transformed by new developments in Neuroscience.

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Instructor: Don Cooper, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Co-Director of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Program
University of Colorado, Boulder
Institute for Behavioral Genetics
Email: DCOOPER@COLORADO.EDU

Tim Koeltzow Ph.D Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Bradley University