This course gives a base for understanding of the processes in vivo. To form the student's basic concepts and knowledge of biochemistry necessary for successful teaching of biological sciences, to give the fundamental foundations of metabolic processes. To study the principles of regulation of metabolism. To teach practical skills of working in a biochemical laboratory. To explain the relationship between the structural features of organic substances and the functions they perform. To study pathological changes in the cell leading to disruption of metabolic processes. To identify the important role of fundamental knowledge in biochemistry in the interdisciplinary space.
- Преподаватель: KOLOTVIN ANDREI
The purpose of the discipline 'Human and Animal Physiology' is to acquire knowledge about the laws governing the functioning of the body and its individual parts. This includes understanding the principles of maintaining human health, exploring the mechanisms of adaptation in humans and animals to environmental conditions. The discipline also aims to prepare students for the study of other subjects in the professional and natural science cycles, contributing to the enhancement of their overall biological knowledge and expertise.
Objectives of the Discipline:
- Explore and analyze the principles of perception, transmission, and processing of information within the body.
- Foster students' skills in analyzing the functions of an integrated organism, considering the structure of inter-organ and intersystem relations from the perspective of integral physiology.
- Examine the mechanisms of nervous and humoral regulation, as well as genetic, molecular, and biochemical processes influencing the dynamics and interaction of physiological functions.
- Investigate the patterns of functioning of the major body systems in ontogenesis and evolution.
- Explore the mechanisms and patterns responsible for maintaining the constancy of the body's internal environment.
- Study methods and principles for assessing the state of regulatory and homeostatic systems in experimental settings.
- Introduce students to the fundamental principles of modeling physiological processes when studying visceral functions of the body.
- Instill a systematic approach among students for understanding the physiological mechanisms underpinning interactions with environmental factors, the nuances of intersystem interactions during purposeful activity, and the implementation of adaptive strategies in the human and animal body.
Results of Teaching the Discipline (Module):
The outcomes of this discipline/module serve as the foundation for the development of subsequent disciplines/modules and practices, including environmental physiology, comparative anatomy and physiology, physiology of sports, and age physiology.
- Преподаватель: Mishchenko Aleksandr
The purpose of the course is to develop in students of the Biology Faculty an understanding of the possibility and necessity of integrating knowledge of clinical psychology methodology into research in the field of biology and medicine, as well as knowledge of biology into research in clinical psychology.
This course aims to introduce students to classical concepts and contemporary research in Clinical Psychology in Russia and other countries and the possibilities of using these achievements in modern interdisciplinary research in the field of Biology and Medicine. In the introductory part of the course, students will be introduced to the subject area of clinical psychology. The theoretical problems and practical challenges of clinical psychology will be analyzed. The history of clinical psychology will be discussed. The course focuses on presenting the fundamental principles and topics of the main models and concepts of Clinical Psychology. It will examine classical and contemporary concepts of the Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral approaches to Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, the Humanistic Clinical Psychological Tradition, the Cultural-Historical (Vygotsky-Luria-Zeigarnik scientific school), and the Biopsychosocial approach to understanding health and disease.
The main provisions of classical and modern research in the traumatic stress topic and Psychosomatic medicine will be analyzed.
The issues of assessing the professional health of specialists will also be discussed, in particular, the diagnosis of the presence of signs of professional burnout in working specialists.
Based on the analysis of the material covered, the need to adhere to the principles of the Biopsychosocial approach and the Cultural-Historical Concept for understanding health and disease when conducting interdisciplinary research in biology and medicine will be discussed.
This course is recommended for students of the Faculty of Biology.
- Преподаватель: Elena Pervichko