Functional Neuroimaging MSc

Course

In Uxbridge

higher than £ 9000

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    September

How does brain scanning equipment work? What can brain scanners tell us about brain function? How do differences in brain structure affect brain function? Recent years have been characterised by a rapid development of

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Location

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Uxbridge (Middlesex)
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Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH

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SeptemberEnrolment now open

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Subjects

  • MRI
  • IT Development
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Behaviour
  • Electroencephalography
  • Medical Science
  • Neuroaesthetics
  • Language and the brain
  • Biology
  • Visual awareness

Course programme

Course Content Compulsory Modules

Cognitive Neuroscience*
How has neuroimaging increased our understanding of brain function? This module covers learning and memory, language and the brain, cerebral lateralization and specialization, the control of action, executive control and frontal lobes, emotional mechanisms, evolutionary perspectives, development, plasticity and consciousness.

Principles of Neuroimaging*
How can we image the human brain? This module reviews Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and also introduces Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Electroencephalography (EEG), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS), and Magnetoencephalography (MEG). The module will focus especially on functional MRI (fMRI), considering safety, signal generation, contrast mechanisms and pulse sequences, haemodynamic activity, BOLD FMRI, and spatial and temporal properties of fMRI.

Practical Neuroimaging*
How do we design, conduct and analyse neuroimaging experiments? How can we use this knowledge to evaluate other neuroimaging studies? This module includes EEG equipment operation, using a Siemens TRIO 3T MRI scanner, experimental design, image processing, statistical analysis, statistical inference and data presentation.

Visual Neuroscience*
Processing the information received by our eyes involves nearly half the cortex. In this module, we study the visual pathways and along the way consider a number of topics including: visual motion and the dorsal stream, biological motion, object recognition and the ventral stream, face recognition, disorders of vision, visual development, visual imagery, visual awareness, change blindness and neuroaesthetics.

Additional information

Special Features Staff involved in the course and their research interests include:  Cognitive Neoropsychology of languagepsycholinguisticsreading processes involved in alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages' developmental and acquired (with neurological patients) dyslexiabrain imaging research on reading with MEG, MRI and fMRI.

Functional Neuroimaging MSc

higher than £ 9000