Tutor information
Anna Scarna
Dr Anna Scarnà is a psychologist who is interested in language, personality traits, and psychological disorders. Her research has been on non-drug treatments for mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder, and autism in females. Anna's most recent work has involved the occurrence of trauma in chimpanzees who were taught sign language and she has written two books about Nim Chimpsky: Primatology, Ethics and Trauma (2023) and Trauma in Sentient Beings: Nature, Nurture, and Nim (2024), both published by Routledge.
Courses
This online day school introduces the brain and key topics of neuroscience. We will study biological theories in the context of psychology, covering basic brain neuroanatomy and linking it to human behaviour and mind functions such as learning and sleep.
What is normal? What is psychopathological? This online day school will present theories about the origins of psychological disorders, symptoms and syndromes, historical perspectives and current treatment practices.
This course introduces the science of psychology, exploring the richness of human functions, uncovering the brain's secrets and revealing its complexities. Studies from biological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural and social approaches are presented.
Examine the brain and behaviour, covering neuroscience and biological psychology. Topics include basic brain neuroanatomy, learning, memory, language, consciousness, emotion, motivation, eating, sleeping, sex, brain lesions, psychological disorders.
This course introduces the science of psychology, exploring the richness of human functions, uncovering the brain's secrets and revealing its complexities. Studies from biological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural and social approaches are presented.
This course introduces the science of psychology, exploring the richness of human functions, uncovering the brain's secrets and revealing its complexities. Studies from biological, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural and social approaches are presented.
Discover theories of attachment, stress, personality and grief from a neuropsychological perspective. This online day school presents experimental and theoretical information for clinical and experimental psychologists, therapists and other clinicians.
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This introductory online day school presents the main psychological theories of personality and how psychologists measure it.