Prospectus | 08/09 - Psychology and Neuroscience - Maastricht ...
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<strong>Prospectus</strong> Research Master <strong>Psychology</strong> 20<strong>08</strong> • 20<strong>09</strong><br />
copy/insert variations <strong>and</strong> frame shift mutations. Students will gain insight, by use<br />
of theoretical models, into how these DNA alterations can occur <strong>and</strong> affect DNA<br />
transcription.<br />
Instructional Approach<br />
Lectures, discussion groups.<br />
60<br />
Form of Assessment<br />
Written assignment.<br />
| 432FN Surgery for Intractable Movement <strong>and</strong> Psychiatric Disorders – 1 credit<br />
Coordinator: Yasin Temel, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (FHML), Phone 38 81024,<br />
50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.130, E-mail: y.temel@np.unimaas.nl<br />
Description of the Course<br />
The aim of this course is to guide the participants through the first key steps of<br />
neuroscience experiments related to movement <strong>and</strong> psychiatric disorders. The<br />
participants will receive relevant knowledge via lectures <strong>and</strong> will have the opportunity<br />
to apply this in practice via a h<strong>and</strong>s-on setup. General neurosurgical techniques will<br />
be shown that are used to selectively lesion brain areas, to chronically infuse drugs to<br />
brain areas, to deep brain stimulate <strong>and</strong> electrophysiologically record from brain areas.<br />
Also, behavioural tests used to study the functional consequences of the neurosurgical<br />
interventions will be demonstrated <strong>and</strong> discussed.<br />
Instructional Approach<br />
Lectures, discussion groups <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>s-on experience.<br />
Form of Assessment<br />
Written assignment.<br />
| 4<strong>09</strong>RM Research Ethics – 1 credit<br />
Coordinator: Eef Theunissen, Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology (FPN),<br />
Phone 38 81940, 40 Universiteitssingel East, Room 2.743,<br />
E-mail: e.theunissen@psychology.unimaas.nl<br />
Description of the Course<br />
Students will learn to think critically about ethical dilemmas that psychologists<br />
encounter when exercising their profession. This workshop will discuss legal <strong>and</strong> ethical<br />
conflicts that are involved in psychological research <strong>and</strong> clinical practice. Students will<br />
be introduced to the ethical <strong>and</strong> legal rules <strong>and</strong> boundaries in human research, <strong>and</strong> to<br />
the organizations <strong>and</strong> institutes supervising the application of these rules.<br />
Psychologists always need to make sure that they carry out their work in an ethical<br />
<strong>and</strong> legally sound way. However, there is often a conflict of interests of the involved
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