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This will study how our brain develops and changes over the lifespan and what brain areas contribute to ways that we learn and update information, navigate in our environment, generate goals, make decisions, and produce actions. It will consider how personality, hormones, physiology, and genetics influence the brain. Learn about how brain areas are affected during healthy ageing throughout the lifespan and in some brain disorders that cause cognitive deficits, for example, affective disorders (e.g., schizophrenia) and dementias (e.g., behavioural variant frontotemporal dementias). Throughout the course, students will also reflect on the impact of environmental factors on the brain.
Additionally, students will learn about the regulations governing welfare and ethics when working with humans and animal models in neuroscience and bicultural perspectives and the Māori worldview on neurobiology. We will also learn how neuroscience and neurobiology contribute to research and development of biomedical technologies, e.g., drug treatments, medical devices and artificial intelligence.
The objectives of the course are to: Evaluate and reflect upon the regulations that govern the ethical treatment and welfare of humans and animals participating in neuroscience researchIdentify and explain how neural networks contribute to our cognitive and behavioural processes Identify and infer (based on evidence) how individual differences and environment factors impact on neural systems and our cognitive functioning throughout the lifespanInterpret and synthesize technical scientific primary literatureDevelop the ability to extrapolate in-depth knowledge from human and animal models in relation to human endeavours that can advance biomedical strategies, treatments, technology, and artificial intelligence
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Anna Mitchell
Carlson NR, & Birkett MA; Physiology of Behavior ; 12th; (The course is not built around any textbook. However, Carlson and Birkett textbook may be helpful for background information about neuroscience and the brain. Physiology of Behavior (12th edition) available online via UC Library (or 13th edition)).
There are no required textbooks for this course. Assigned readings for lectures/labs will be provided online via LEARN.
Domestic fee $1,176.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .