Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

301298 (v.3) Neuroscience 332


Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 301433 (v.5) BIO31 Our Internal Internet or any previous version
AND
302425 (v.2) Our Internal Internet - Its Structure and Function 304 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 8472 (v.12) Physiology 231 or any previous version
AND
8846 (v.8) Physiology 232 or any previous version
Syllabus: Overview of the nervous system, blood supply to the brain, meninges, CSF, ventricular system, excitatory and inhibitory synapses and transmitters, receptors types and functions, somatosensation, visual, auditory and vestibular perception, cortical, cerebellar and brainstem control of movement and posture, cranial nerves. The roles of the hypothalamus and autonomic nervous system and interaction with the cerebrum. The roles of the limbic system in emotion, learning and memory.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010913 Human Biology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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