Brain and Behavior
Regulating Body Weight
The course explored how our body weight is influenced by: This course is suitable for everyone from individuals interested in learning more about their personal health to those with a background in basic biological processes who what to expand their knowledge. No prior experience or qualifications is necessary. You can use the hashtag #FLbodyweight to talk about this course on social media.
Topics Covered- Environmental factors
- Social factors
- Learned behaviors
- Biological factors
- Central nervous system
- Hormonal influence
- Genetic influence and genetic disorders
- Gene-environment interaction
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As someone who last studied biology in school years ago, I found these two weeks challenging but very interesting, and look forward to following up this subject in the future.
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Week 1 looks at environmental influences and learned behaviours which influence eating patterns.
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The course is well designed to give a very short introduction to a very complex topic.
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Weeks 2 and 3 look at biological factors: the role of hormones, the nervous system, genetics and epigenetics.
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