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The module covers cognitive functions of the brain and how they are affected in neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions.
The module will give you a deeper understanding of the scientific basis for the study of higher functions of the brain with specific focus on how neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases affect higher functions.
The content of the modules provides examples of the methodologies for assessing higher functions in health and disease, such as behavioural assessment, brain stimulation, brain imaging and computational approaches. The impact of disease will be covered across a range of cognitive domains, including motor control, perception, language, motion, spatial cognition, or reasoning, and for a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as acquired brain injury (e.g. stroke), neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer鈥檚 disease), and a range of psychiatric disorders (e.g. depression, schizophrenia). With this overview, students will become aware about disease-specific changes in higher functions, but also impairments of higher functions that can be observed across different pathologies.听
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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