Schedule
Tue-Thu, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (8/15/2010 - 8/25/2010) Location: MAIN SHB 201
Tue-Thu, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (8/18/2010 - 12/11/2010) Location: MAIN SHB 201
Description
PSY 332 Health Psychology Three credit hours
Health psychology is a rapidly emerging field of basic and applied research that utilizes principles of psychology to impact health and illness across the lifespan. Health psychology seeks to elucidate the role that behavior and its physiologic concomitants play in the etiology, treatment, and prevention of disease. Specific topics addressed include behavioral, psychosocial, and neuropsychological correlates of chronic diseases such as asthma, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis,
hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases; the physiology and management of chronic pain; psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral influences on infectious diseases (i.e., HIV/AIDS and the common cold); and sleep-related health consequences. Prerequisite: PSY 131.