PY/BYW 536 Seminar in Psychology: Psychobiology of Stress and Illness

Usual instructor: Dr. Aurora Torres.

Examines psychological and physiological mechanisms of stress responses and associated illnesses. Coverage of topics includes a variety of women’s health issues including migraine headache, prenatal stress, premenstrual syndrome, breast cancer, and gender differences in psychological disorders.

This counts as the elective in the Women's Studies minor.

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