Welcome - Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
NESC 3271 Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course explores the role that developmental events (internal and external) play in health and disease, emphasizing their role in programming stress responding and metabolic processes across the lifespan. Students learn about underlying epigenetic mechanisms, environmental/sociocultural influences, disease processes impacted (e.g., stress-related and metabolic-related diseases), societal implications, and prevention/mitigation strategies.
FORMAT: Lecture
PREREQUISITES:
NESC 2000.03 or
PSYO 2000.03 AND
NESC 2470.03 or
PSYO 2470.03
CROSS-LISTING:
PSYO 3271.03