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A series of three hour experiments in a) networking
computers and instruments together; and b) principles and
applications of optical instruments. Experiments in
nekvorking computers and instrumenis together to achieve
instrumentation functions: optical instrumentation and
imagery
SP523 Industry Based Learning
50.0 credit points
A six-month period of industry based learning occurring as
part of the third year of the course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing and
Instrumentation). Students are supervised by a member of
the academic staff and are required to submit a report to
their employer and to their supervisor.
5.~524 Biophysics (Neurosciences A)
8.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: SP324 and either SP424 or SP425
Assessment: examination, assignments and
practical work
A fourth-year subject of the degree course for students
majoring in medical biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Neuro anatomy: spinal cord organisation, histological
features, brain-stem, pathways, structures, hemispheres,
subcortical structures, gross and histological dissection.
Receptor functions: information theory, channel capacity,
information transmission, frequency coding, thresholds,
receptive fields, generator potential.
Biophysics of peripheral sensory systems: peripheral
receptors, histology, function, CNS connections, spinal cord
mechanisms, spinal afferent pathways - lemniscal and
anterolateral, thalamic organisation and projections, 51 and
Sl 1 somatosensory cortex, dysfunction, testing - SEP.
Pain, spinal and brainstem pathways, endogenous opiates.
gating theory, analgesia - TENS, electrical stimulation,
pharmacological interactions.
Psychophysics: scaling, assessment techniques, absolute and
difference thresholds, Weber function, just noticeable
difference, Fechner compression, signal detection, ROC
curves.
Motor control: peripheral mechanisms, gamma loop,
coactivation, stiffness regulation, sem mechanisms, motor
cortex, motor potential, control circuits to basal ganglia and
cerebellum, spinal pathways, pathology, skilled mwement,
learning, open and closed loop operation.
SP525 Applied Biophysics A
8.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: SM3415, SP325 and either SP424
or SP425
Assessment: examination and laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Physiological control systems: control theory, signal flow diagrams,
fundamental block representations, open-loop gain.
Dynamic responses: Bode and Nyquist analysis, transfer
function discovery - examples of physiological investigations.
Cardiovascular system, mathematical models of the arterial
system,
Respiratory, acidlbase and thermal control, modelling of
peripheral neuro muscular control.
Multicompartment systems and methods of analysis, models
of membrane systems, channel statistics.
Modelling of endocrine systems.
Volume conductor theory; application to EEG. Neurovolume
conductors, modelling models of brain electrical and
magnetic activity.
Introduction to neural net modelling.
SP527 Neurophysiology of the Normal Brain
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Prerequisite: SP431
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, seminars and
project consultation
Assessment: examination and assignments
A third-par subject for students majoring in
psychophysiology.
Subject aims
To provide a knowledge of the physiological and behavioural
processes underlying normal sleep, dreaming, memory, and
disorders of these states.
Subject description
Memory: neuronal theories of consciousness, neuronal
plasticity, distributed memory system.
Consciousness: theories of consciousness, interaction with
sleep states.
Sleep and dreaming: stages of sleep, desynchronisation of
EEG activtty, functional models of sleep, sleep monitoring,
sleep disorders.
Textbook
Kolb, 0. and Whishaw, I.Q. Fundamentals of Human Neumpsychology.
3rd ed, New York: Freeman, 1990
References
As advised by lecturers
SP528 Higher Cortical Functions
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Prerequisite: SP431
Assessment: examination, assignments and
seminar presentation
A third-year subject for students majoring in
psychophysiology.
Subject description
Neurophysiological mechanisms of attention;
electrophysiological correlates of attention, disordea of
attention, models of attention, psychophysiological and
behavioural assessment, disorders of attention.
Neurophysiological basis of purposive behwiour; vigilance,
disorders of purpositive behaviour; amotivational states,
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Tourette's syndrome.
Psychophysiological and behwioural measures.
Consciousness and awareness: the mind-body problem,
artificial "intelligence".
Neuronal mechanisms of sexual behwiour.
Neurophysiological basis of speech and language; origins of
speech and language, neurological models for language,
language disorders; assessment of aphasia, apraxia,
aprosodias, neurodevelopment and language, role of left and
right hemisphere, recognition of facial expression, prefrontal
contributions, gender and language, memory and language.