1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SP626 Applied Neurosciences
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:
SP524 Corequisites: Nil Assessment: assignments and
examination
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Objective
To provide an overview of higher conical function with
associated physiological and behavioural measures.
Content
Cognitive processes.
Speech laterality, learning, mechanics, interpretation, injury.
Memory.
Behavioural aspects of sleep and consciousness.
Affective status, emotion.
Disorders of higher cortical functions depression, anxiety,
schizophrenia.
Recommended reading
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q., Fundamentals of Human
Neuropsychology. 3rd edn, New York, Freeman, 1990
SP630 Instrumentation Systems B
10 credit points 4 hours per week Prerequisite: SPS.30
Hawthorn Assessment: examination and CML tests
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation and Computing
and Instrumentation)
Content
Lectures on selected subjects of importance for
instrumentation including; control theory, radiation and
matter, neural networks, transducers and sensors,
mossbauder spectroscopy and fibre optic sensing.
SP631 Neurophysiology of Mental
Disorders
20 credit points 6 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: SP527 Corequisites: Nil Assessment:
examination and assignment
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science/
Bachelor of Arts CO-major (I'sychology and
Psychophysiology)
Objective
Provides a knowledge of the processes underlying mental
disorders, brain injury, and degenerative diseases.
Content
Disorders of affect: theories of depression, monoamines and
depression, mechanism of action of antidepressants, anxiety
and benzodiazapine-GABA interactions.
Schizophrenia: causation, abnormal metabolismmonoamine
systems, symptomatology, diagnosis,
hemis~hericalateralisation. frontal lobe dysfunction.
investigative techniques.
Brain injury: causes, specific deficits, diagnosis. Ageing
effects on brain function: normal degeneration,
cerebrovascular disease, decreased sensory stimulation,
metabolic indicators.
Pathological degeneration-Parkinson's disease, neurological
disorder Alzheimer type dementia.
Recommended reading
Kandel E.R., Schwartz ].H. & Jessel T.M., Principles of Neural
Science. 3rd edn, London, Appleton Lange, 1991
SP632 Psychophysiology Project
12.J credit points 5 hours per week Hawthom
Prerequisite: SP528 Corequisites: Nil Assessment: report
and seminar
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science/
Bachelor of Arts CO-major (Psychology and
Psychophysiology)
Objectives
To provide skills for research project within the area of
psychophysiology.
Completion of a research report based upon work
completed by the student during the semester.
Content
This subject gives students the opportsubjecty to apply
techniques and skills introduced in the psychophysiology
and psychology courses in an investigation of a topic of
interest. Students may select the topic at an early stage of the
third year of the course, which can be adequately supervised,
investigated and reported on within the time constraint. The
project work may involve physiological or psychological
data collection, literature research, or a combination of
these. Projects will usually be individual but may sometimes
involve shared aspects. Students will make a short verbal
presentation on their project topic and submit a final
written report.
SP711 Biosensors and Membranes
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthom
Corequisites: Nil Assessment: continuous, by tests and
assignments
A subject in the Graduate Bachelor of Applied Science
(I3onours)~edical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Content
Membrane biophysics tracer dynamics. Applications of
irreversible thermodynamics. Active and passive transport
mechanisms. Membrane-based biosensors.
Biophysical techniques. Electron microscopy. Electron and
proton microbeam analysis. Diffraction studies of biological
materials. Autoradiography. Optical methods. NMR and
ESR studies.
Physiological control mechanisms, mathematical models of
physiological systems.