Sample Biomedical Ethics Course

The human aptitude to acquire and maintain information is an outstanding feature of human evolution. Moreover, after being exposed to the neurological potential of human beings, my passions, rooted in behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology, have thrived. As a mental health specialist, I am continually drawn to what is deemed “abnormal,” and the psychopathologies behind certain symptomology. Behaviorism, although respectively becoming outdated as a stand-alone discipline, is an interesting field; however, it requires interdisciplinary applications of fields such as neuroscience. Moreover, the physiological mechanisms underlying behavior, neuropsychological pathologies, and the neuroplasticity of the brain are where

Critical to the practice of neuroscience, particularly in research, is a strong ethical footing. Ethics is a discipline engaged in regularly in research and has strong footholds in any scientific discipline. Moreover, having taken a biomedical ethics course during my undergraduate degree, this has enlightened my perceptions of what research entails. Supplementary to this course, I have also taken courses that directly relate to my primary interests—as aforementioned, they include behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and psychopathology. Memory and cognition was a course that explored experiments and theories in human memory and cognition with a primary focus on the related topics of attention, thinking, and problem-solving, and their role in a general model of information processing. This was the first course I took that identified one of my key passions, namely cognition. Similarly, Human Brain and Behavior and Introduction to Physiological Psychology furthered this intrigue. In Introduction to Physiological Psychology, the biological mechanisms underlying fundamental psychological processes were surveyed and the biological basis of motivated behavior, sensory processes and attention, learning and memory, and language were explored in depth. Likewise, in Human Brain and Behavior the neurological basis of human behavior was surveyed with principle emphasis on hemispheric specialization, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. These two courses went in tandem to one another and solidified a deep understanding of the underlying biological principles of human