Introduction to Behavioral Sciences

Gowtham Padmanaban
Faculty of Medicine - Neuroscience
Texila American University
 Course Objectives

1. To understand the science of behavior

2. To learn about the cognitive functions of

brain

3. A preparation for clinical psychiatry

4. Clinical Approaches & Treatment

COURSE BASIC

Level MD II Sem II

Course Code BM 022

Course Title BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Credits 2 Credits (30 hours)

Course Credit
Theory: 2 Credit Practical: 0
(30 hours)
 Course Outline

Introduction & Beginning of Life

Various Stages of Life
Human Behavior
Psychoanalytic theory
Psychiatric Assessment
Cognitive Aspects Learning ,Memory
& Thoughts
 Psychiatric Disorders of
Sleep
Mood
Somatoform
Aggression and Violence
Cognition
Sexual
Child Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology & Psychotherapy
 Topic domains

1. Mind body interaction

2. Patient behavior

3. Physician role and behavior

4. Physician patient interaction

5. Social and cultural issues in health care

6. Health policy and economics

 Introduction

The study of
observation and
explanation of Human
behavior in individuals
or groups.
Core Disciplines
 Psychology
Study of mind and brain in all aspects of
consciousness ,unconsciousness.
Sociology
Study of the development, class, laws of
human society.
Anthropology
Origin, history and constitutions of human
culture.
 Grave young lost his vision by an accident, but he developed blind
sight.

Deric stream lost his right hand in car accident,still he can feel
sensation from the amputated Arm.

John Sharon suffered from episodes of temporal epileptic seizures.

During seizures he feels himself as God.

Arthur, a young man who sustained a terrible head injury in an

automobile crash and soon afterward claimed that his father and
mother had been replaced by duplicates who looked exactly like his
real parents.
 None of these people is "crazy"; sending them to
psychiatrists would be a waste of time.

Rather, each of them suffers from damage to a

specific part of the brain that leads to bizarre
but highly characteristic changes in behavior.

They hear voices, feel missing limbs, see things

that no one else does.
 These syndromes illustrate fundamental principles of how the
normal human mind and brain work, shedding light on the nature of
body image, language, laughter, dreams, depression and other
hallmarks of human nature.

Have you ever wondered why some jokes are funny and others are
not ?

why you are inclined to believe or disbelieve in God?

why you feel erotic sensations when someone sucks your toes?

How does the activity of tiny wisps of protoplasm in the brain lead
to conscious experience?