The Addicted Brain - Online Course

The Addicted Brain - Online Course

Language: English

Start date: Various, throughout the year

Cost: Free

 

The course will cover many aspects of addiction, mainly to drugs, but also to the Internet, gambling and other behaviors. Questions that will be addressed include: 

  • What is addiction? 
  • How do we study it and what have we learned? 
  • What makes a drug or activity addicting and what are its problems and toxicities? 
  • What happens in the brain when someone becomes addicted? 
  • Who can be an addict, and what are the vulnerability and risk factors?  
  • How do we treat addicts? 
  • How does government policy affect addicts?
  •  https://www.coursera.org/learn/addiction-and-the-brain

Details

Type
Training
Approach(es)
Training, education and capacity building