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Physical therapy: TENS, ultrasound therapy, PEMFs, laser
therapy, ..
UV, IR, microwave therapies.
Biomaterials: biocompatibility, implants in orthopaedics and
dentist^. limb wrostheses, cell-substrate interactions.
~unctioial elecirical stimulation.
Environmental biophysics: ergonomics, stress in the
workplace, overuse injury, effects of noise, electromagnetic
radiation, etc. Effects of heat and cold. Bioeffects of
atmospheric pollutants.
SP626 Applied Neurosciences
5.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisite: SP524
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
Assessment: assignments and examination
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics.
Subject aims
To provide an overview of higher cortical function with
associated physiological and behavioural measures.
Subjed description
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.
Textbook
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q. Fundamentals of Human Neumpsychology.
3rd ed. New York: Freeman, 1990
References
As advised by lecturers
SP630 Instrumentation Systems B
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: SP530
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A fourth-year subject for students majoring in scientific
instrumentation.
Subject description
Lectures in control theory and other elected subjects of
importance to instrumentation.
Artificial neural network architectures: counter propagation.
linear vector quantisation, probalistic neural networks,
Hopfield, Hamming, recirculating, self organising maps,
ART1. Selecting an architecture to suit the problem. Data
preparation. Relationship between artificial neural networks.
expert systems and statistical techniques.
SP631 Neurophysiology of Mental Disorden
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Prerequisite: SP527
Assessment: examination and assignment
A third-year subject for students completing the
psychophysiology major.
Subject description
Disorders of affect: theories of depression, monoamines and
depression, mechanism of action of antidepressants, anxiety
and benzodiazapine - GABA interactions.
Schizophrenia: causation, abnormal metabolism -
monoamine systems, symptomology, diagnosis, hemispherical
laterisation, frontal lobe dysfunction, investigative techniques.
Brain damage: 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, etc.
SP632 Psychophysiology Project
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Prerequisite: SP528
Assessment: report
A third-year subject for students completing the
psychophysiology major.
Subject description
This subject gives students the opportunity to apply
techniques and skills introduced in the psychophysiology and
psychology courses in an investigation into a topic of
particular interest. Students may select an appropriate topic
of interest at an early stage of the third year of the course,
which can be adequately supervised, investigated and
reported on within the above time constraints. The selected
project work may involve such activities as physiological
andlor psychological data collection, literature research, etc.
or a combination of these. Projects will usually be individual
but may sometimes involve shared aspects. Students will be
expected to make a short verbal presentation on their
project topic and to submit a final wriien report.
SP731 Technology Transfer
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments
A subject in the Masters course in Biomedical
Instrumentation.
Subject description
Aspects of developing innovative biomedical instrumentation
systems from prototype to production: market analysis,
financial sponsorship, case studies. In seminars, ideas for
potential medical devices are discussed in relation to
production details and marketing strategies. Students are
required to produce a report of the feasibility of a particular
device, with production costs and sales projections.
SP711 Biorensom and Membranes
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the medical biophysics option of the Bachelor
of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Membrane biophysics: tracer dynamics, applications of
irreversible thermodynamics, active and passive transport
mechanisms. Biosensor applications.
S P I ~ 2
Physics of Biomaterials
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: hrvo hours
Prerequisite: SP711 Biosensors and Membranes
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the medical biophysics option of the Bachelor
of Applied Science (Honours) program.