Neuropsychology Level 3 Certificate Course

There are 10 lessons

1. Foundations of Neuropsychology
   • What is neuropsychology?
   • The Information Processing Approach
   • Studying the human mind
   • Techniques used
   • Brain scans
   • Animal studies
   • Methods of investigating the brain
   • Psychological tests
   • Stroop test
2. Neurophysiology
   • Neurons
   • Parts of a neuron
   • Neurotransmitters
   • Effects of neurotransmitters
   • Neurotransmitters and their effects
   • Endorphins
   • Disorders associated with neurotransmitters
   • Glia cells
   • Schwann cells
   • Nerve impulse
   • Synaptic transmission
   • Nerve impulse
   • Neuromuscular transmission
3. Neuroanatomy
   • The nervous system
   • Parts of the central nervous system
   • The brain
   • The spinal cord
   • Spinal nerves
   • Blood brain barrier
   • Peripheral nervous system
   • Autonomic nervous system
   • Sensory somatic nervous system
   • Spinal nerves
   • Cranial nerves
   • How the nervous system works (a summary)
   • Problems with brain functioning
   • Cerebral palsy
   • Brain tumours
   • Injuries to the head
   • Epilepsy
   • Headaches
   • Mental illness
   • Meningitis and encephalitis
4. Laterality and Callosal Syndromes
   • Brain lateralisation
   • Left handedness
   • Cognitive neuropsychology
   • Callosal syndrome
   • Complete severance
   • Split brain
   • Complete severance
   • Split brain syndrome
   • Lobotomy
   • Psychosurgery
   • Dual brain theory
5. Cognition, Personality and Emotion
   • Brain damage
   • Emotion and moods
   • Phineas Gage
   • Brain damage and emotion
   • Frontal lobe
   • Higher level functioning
   • The Limbic system
   • Neurotransmitters
   • Neuropsychology
   • Emotions research
6. Perception Disorders
   • Hemispatial neglect
   • Causes of hemispatial neglect
   • Auditory perceptual disorder
   • Agnosia
   • Visual agnosia
   • Types of visual agnosia
   • Prosopagnosia
   • Simultanagnosia
   • Optic aphasia
   • Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder
7. Motor Disorders
   • Parkinson’s Disease
   • Motor disorders resulting from traumatic brain injury
   • Non traumatic and/or genetic paediatric movement disorders
   • Cerebral palsy
   • Motor conditions
   • Gerstmann’s Syndrome
   • Apraxia
   • Motor skills disorder
   • Motion dyspraxia
   • Neural transplants and Parkinson’s Disease
   • Gene therapy
   • How does gene therapy work
   • Ethical issues surrounding gene therapy
8. Language
   • Broca’s area
   • Wernicke’s area
   • Speech
   • Language
   • Speech and language disorders
   • Apraxia
   • Aphasia
   • Stuttering
   • Neurogenic stuttering
   • Troyer syndrome
   • Speech disorders
9. Dementia
   • Kinds of dementia
   • Alzheimer’s Disease
   • Vascular Dementia
   • Multi-infarct Dementia
   • Parkinson’s Disease
   • Pick’s Disease
   • Dementia with Lewy Bodies
   • Huntingdon’s Disease
   • Pseudo-Dementia
   • Spotting dementia and other conditions
10. Neurodevelopment
    • Major processes of neurodevelopment
    • Neurogenesis
    • Migration
    • Differentiation
    • Apoptosis
    • Aborisation
    • Synaptogenesis
    • Asperger Syndrome
    • Neuroplasticity and brain damage

Each lesson requires the completion of an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.