Drugs & Behavior
PSY 485
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This course is an introduction to pharmacological and psychological mechanisms of drugs that influence brain functioning. It provides valuable information to any student that might work in a wide variety of psychology or health care-related careers. Those of you choosing these careers will often be working with people who are abusing drugs or taking therapeutic drugs. Knowledge of how psychoactive drugs affect behavior will help you more effectively provide appropriate care, regardless of the relationship between drugs and an individual’s treatment. Emphasis of the course will be on the multiple and variable effects of psychoactive drugs, and factors influencing drug effects. The course will cover basic structure and function of the nervous system, drug classification and development, basic principles of pharmacology, the role of learning, addiction, and characteristics of specific drugs of abuse and therapeutic drugs. More generally, this course will provide you with information that allows you to critically evaluate media reports that often provide conflicting information about effects of drugs as well as claims made by those selling drugs (legally or illegally). Such information is valuable when one must consider the benefits and costs of taking a particular drug

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At Coe College, we expect academic integrity of all members of our community. Academic integrity assumes honesty about the nature of one's work in all situations. Such honesty is at the heart of the educational enterprise and is a pre-condition for intellectual growth.  Academic dishonesty interferes with the mission of the College and will be treated with the utmost seriousness as a violation of community standards. 

Cheating, plagiarism, deliberately impeding other students' work and misuse of common academic property, in the libraries, labs, and elsewhere are all forms of academic dishonesty and will be subject to one or more of the following sanctions:

1) failure of the assignment, i.e. exam, paper, lab report, etc.  
2) failure of the class  
3) suspension or expulsion

Students accused of academic dishonesty have the right to appeal any sanctions.  The full policy is printed in the college catalog, the student handbook, and is available on the Dean's web site.  

Students should consult their professor, as well as materials in the library and writing center to learn more about how to avoid plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.