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Affective Neuroscience for Healthcare Practitioners and Everyone

Explore the intricate world of the emotional brain and its impact on patient-provider relationships and behaviours.

Affective Neuroscience for Healthcare Practitioners and Everyone

  • 3 weeks

  • 2 hours per week

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Intermediate level

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Bridge emotion, brain function, and behaviour into cohesive healthcare practices

Affective neuroscience reveals the ways emotions are wired into our brains. When applied in healthcare settings, it can enhance patient interactions, improve emotional well-being, and inform effective treatment strategies.

Explore this discipline and gain practical applications for your clinical practice on this three-week, online course from the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Understand fear, anxiety, and the perception of threat with affective neuroscience

You’ll begin this course by unpacking the psychological and neurological mechanisms behind some of our most intense emotions, and how these shape our perceptions and relationships.

You’ll engage with other learners in discussing the diversity of emotions and the impact of each on patient experiences.

With this knowledge, you’ll enhance patient interactions and treatment by addressing individual emotional responses and fostering a more empathetic care environment.

Unpack the role of emotion processing in reward and suffering

By week two, you’ll look into the ways emotions related to reward and suffering shape behaviour and decision-making in healthcare settings.

These insights will help you navigate challenges as a healthcare professional and better clinical outcomes.

Discover how emotion impacts patient care

On the final week of this course, you’ll delve deeper into the interplay between emotion and decision-making by examining how emotional states influence the choices we make and the brain mechanisms that underpin these processes. You’ll apply these insights to real-world scenarios, focusing on their implications for clinical practice and patient communication.

Skip to 0 minutes and 14 seconds Have you just heard about the story? Your friend wants to see a dentist because of toothache. However, he is so worried and anxious about the treatment and just cannot sleep well before the visit. Have you felt the same feeling of fear and anxiety toward medical care? Have you felt frustrated when the treatment outcome does not meet your expectation? If you were a healthcare worker, how would you comfort a nervous and scared patient? How would you help a patient who is not so friendly and just argues everything with you? I am Dr. Chia-Shu Lin from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, I’m a dentist and neuroscientist with many years of research and teaching in clinical and brain science.

Skip to 1 minute and 6 seconds In this course, I will explore these questions together with you from the psychology and neuroscience of emotion Welcome to Affective Neuroscience, for healthcare practitioners and everyone.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    Fear, anxiety, and the perception of threat

    • Emotion and the perception of threat

      Emotion and the perception of threat

    • What happened to the patients?

      Fear and anxiety: What happened to the patients?

    • What happens in the brain?

      Fear and anxiety: What happens in the brain?

  • Week 2

    Emotion about reward and suffering

    • Emotion is about reward

      To define the meaning of reward, suffering, and stress

    • Anger and aggression

      To differentiate the associations between anger, fear, and aggression

    • The pleasure from aesthetic experience

      To differentiate between the concepts of aesthetic experiences and beauty.

  • Week 3

    Emotion and Social Interaction

    • Emotion and decision-making

      To differentiate the association between emotion and decision-making.

    • Clinical issues of social 'emotions'

      To define the key concepts of social interaction.

    • Brain mechanism underlying the links between emotion and social interaction

      To recognize the brain mechanism underlying the links between emotion and social interaction.

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Apply affective neuroscience concepts to improve patient care and communication
  • Explain the relationship between emotions, brain function, and behavior in clinical settings.
  • Demonstrate a foundational understanding of affective neuroscience principles.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for professionals working in or studying healthcare-related fields. It’s well-suited for those who want to apply the latest neuroscience and psychological insights, specifically the role of emotion and behaviour, to patient interactions.

Who will you learn with?

Dr. Chia-shu Lin is a professor of Dept. Dentistry and adjunct professor of Institute of Brain Science, Nat. Yang Ming Chiao Tung U. (Taiwan). He studies oral and brain function using neuroimaging.

Who developed the course?

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) was originally founded in Shanghai in 1896 and was re-established in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1958.

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