Affective Neuroscience for Healthcare Practitioners and Everyone

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.

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.

• Fear, anxiety, and the perception of threat
• Emotion and the perception of threat
• What happened to the patients?
• What happens in the brain?
• Emotion about reward and suffering
• Emotion is about reward
• Anger and aggression
• The pleasure from aesthetic experience
• Emotion and Social Interaction
• Emotion and decision-making
• Clinical issues of social 'emotions'
• Brain mechanism underlying the links between emotion and social interaction