Biopsychology B (Effects of Brain Damage & Drugs) Online Course
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Qualification Certificate
Broaden your understanding of physiological (including genetic) influences on brain process, (such as memory), and human behaviour. A stand alone course that complements Biopsychology A, however a wider perspective is acquired by studying the same course.
Course Aims:
- Understand how evolution, genetics and experience influence behaviour and individual differences.
- Discuss methods of research used to understand the functioning of the nervous system and behaviour.
- Explain different causes of brain damage and the resultant effects on brain functioning.
- Understand neuro-plasticity from the perspective of development, learning and recovery from brain damage.
- Delineate the effects of drugs on the CNS and to explain biopsychological theories of addiction and reward systems in the brain.
- Describe memory structures in the brain, theories of memory storage and evidence from different types of amnesia.
- Describe different models of language localisation and to evaluate evidence for these models.
Detailed Course Outline
This course is made up of a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.
There are 7 lessons in this course:
Evolution, Genetics and Experience
- What is biopsychology
- The organism’s genetic endowment, experience and perception.
- Adaptation
- Behavioural genetics
- The nature nurture debate
- The human genome
- Benefits of genetic research
- Critical policy and ethical issues
Research Methods in Biopsychology
- Behavioural genetics
- Methods of investigating the brain: insvasive and non invasive
- Localisation of function
- Neuroanatomical techniques
- Psychophysiological measures
- Other methods
- Lesions
Brain Damage
- Causes of brain damage
- Frontal lobe damage
- Damage to other areas and effects
- Types of brain damage
- Case study : Phineas Gage
- Case study: diagnosing epilepsy
- Case study -Alzeimer’s disease
Recovery from Brain Damage
- Neuro plasticity
- Stages of recovery: unresponsiveness, early responses, agitated and confused, higher level responses,
- Case study: Parkinson’s disease
- Parkinsons disease symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, stages, etc
- Drug treatments for parlinson’s disease
- Complimentary and supportive therapies for Parkinson’s disease
- Coping with Parkinson’s disease
- Terminology
Drug Dependence and the Brain
- Drugs
- Definitions
- Effects of illegal drugs
- Other drugs: steroids, barbituates, etc
- Physiological and psychological effects of drugs: illicits, stimulants
- Addiction: how drugs work in the brain
- Central nervous system
Memory
- Models of memory: multistore model, eorking memory model, levels of processing model
- Levels of processing model
- Amnesia and types of amnesia
- Case study: traumatic amnesia
- Case study: Korsakoff’s syndrome (Alcohol amnesic syndrome)
Language
- The brain and language
- Paul Broca
- Carl Wernicke
- Aphasia and Diphasia
- Apraxia
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Course Tutor
Dr Nicholas Harris B. Psychology (Hons I), PhD
Nicholas is a social psychologist; he studies and teaches on topics involving group-level and individual-level behavior, as well as examining the effect of the situation. Nicholas has been involved in writing textbooks and research papers in psychology. Nicholas’ teaching experience is vast; he has taught social psychology, indigenous and intercultural psychology, statistics, research methods, psychological measurement and assessment, personality, organizational psychology, counselling skills, and ethics. Nicholas has also completed a number of short courses on counselling and suicide prevention, and has volunteered for a number of years with Lifeline. Nicholas has supervised a number of honours and master’s research theses.
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