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Chapter 3 - Specialization Fundamental Neuroscience Form of Assessment Short report (2-4 pages) in abbreviated article form. | 522FN Data management– 1 credit Coordinator: Arjan Blokland, Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology (FPN), Phone 38 81903, 40 Universiteitssingel East, Room 2.731, E-mail: a.blokland@psychology.unimaas.nl Description of the Course The aim of this skills training is to acquire basis skills in data management. After doing your scientific research, data have to be prepared for data analysis. Usually, the format of the data acquisition software does not match the requirements of sophisticated statistical software packages (e.g., SPSS or SAS). In this skills training, students will be familiarized with the software package Excel. This program has many features that can be very helpful to overcome time-consuming formatting of databases. First, an introduction of the basic features of Excel will be presented. Being familiar with these basic aspects is necessary to understand copying of values and formulas (relative or absolute). Also, Excel enables you to make various types of graphs, which can be very helpful for quickly visualizing your data. A fourth aspect that will be dealt with is pivot tables, a very helpful tool to organise your data in any manner you find most suitable for your further data handling. A final option that will be dealt with is the use of macros. These are especially helpful when repetitious changes in layout or recalculations have to be made. 59 Instructional Approach Group meetings in which direct demonstrations are given via PC/beamer. Students may provide the instructor data to be used as examples. Form of Assessment Written assignment. 3.4 M&T workshops | 431FN Molecular Genetics – 1 credit Coordinator: Fred van Leeuwen, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (FHML), Phone 38 81044, 50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.116, E-mail: f.vanleeuwen@np.unimaas.nl Description of the Course Currently, the role of genes in causing vulnerability for psychiatric and neurological disorders is prominent. This workshop focuses on which genetic alterations play a role in this respect. Epigenetic phenomena such as DNA methylation and histone deacetylation will be discussed. In addition more traditional gene alteration will be discussed, including single nucleotide polymorphisms, insertion/deletion, repeats,
Prospectus Research Master Psychology 2008 • 2009 copy/insert variations and frame shift mutations. Students will gain insight, by use of theoretical models, into how these DNA alterations can occur and affect DNA transcription. Instructional Approach Lectures, discussion groups. 60 Form of Assessment Written assignment. | 432FN Surgery for Intractable Movement and Psychiatric Disorders – 1 credit Coordinator: Yasin Temel, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (FHML), Phone 38 81024, 50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.130, E-mail: y.temel@np.unimaas.nl Description of the Course The aim of this course is to guide the participants through the first key steps of neuroscience experiments related to movement and psychiatric disorders. The participants will receive relevant knowledge via lectures and will have the opportunity to apply this in practice via a hands-on setup. General neurosurgical techniques will be shown that are used to selectively lesion brain areas, to chronically infuse drugs to brain areas, to deep brain stimulate and electrophysiologically record from brain areas. Also, behavioural tests used to study the functional consequences of the neurosurgical interventions will be demonstrated and discussed. Instructional Approach Lectures, discussion groups and hands-on experience. Form of Assessment Written assignment. | 409RM Research Ethics – 1 credit Coordinator: Eef Theunissen, Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology (FPN), Phone 38 81940, 40 Universiteitssingel East, Room 2.743, E-mail: e.theunissen@psychology.unimaas.nl Description of the Course Students will learn to think critically about ethical dilemmas that psychologists encounter when exercising their profession. This workshop will discuss legal and ethical conflicts that are involved in psychological research and clinical practice. Students will be introduced to the ethical and legal rules and boundaries in human research, and to the organizations and institutes supervising the application of these rules. Psychologists always need to make sure that they carry out their work in an ethical and legally sound way. However, there is often a conflict of interests of the involved
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