Cognitive Neurosciences and Psychological Rehabilitation

1. Knowledge and understanding. Students will have to achieve a good knowledge of the concept of stress, of the main coping strategies that the individual implements to cope with stressful situations and of its neurobiological, endocrine and physiological substrates, of its adaptive and maladaptive significance to the environment and the possible pathophysiological implications in the psychiatric field. 2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Students will be able to use the concepts learned to: (i) design the adequate and appropriate experimental paradigms for the investigation of the stress response both in animal models and in humans (ii) identify the behavioral and pharmacological strategies for the stress resolution and management. 3. Judgments Skills. Students will have to develop critical skills and independent judgment with respect to the concept of stress, knowledge of markers (biological and behavioral) of vulnerability and individual susceptibility to stress during development as well as in adulthood. 4. Communication skills. Students will be able to communicate the concepts and theoretical assumptions as well as the neurobiological, physiological and pathophysiological substrates that characterize stress and related pathologies. 5. Learning skills. Students will be able to learn the main theories, approaches and experimental procedures for studying the stress response and its implications as a risk factor for the development of pathologies in the psychiatric field.