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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
(BIO01302 - Human Anatomy OR BIO10662 - Systemic Anatomy) AND BIO00307 - Human Physiology
Unit aim
Introduces students to key concepts in Neuroscience and provides a neural basis for the understanding of the human nervous systems and how they function together in healthy and clinical context.
Unit content
- Overview of the nervous system
- The cerebral cortex and vascular supply
- The spinal cord, peripheral nerves and plexuses
- The motor systems
- The sensory systems
- The autonomic nervous system
- The cranial nerves and brainstem
- Higher order functions of the nervous system
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | analyse and compare the structural organisation of the human nervous system | |||||||
| 2 | outline and compare selected functional components of the human nervous system | |||||||
| 3 | explain the processes involved in damage and repair of the nervous system. | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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analyse and compare the structural organisation of the human nervous system
- GA1:
- GA4:
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outline and compare selected functional components of the human nervous system
- GA1:
- GA4:
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explain the processes involved in damage and repair of the nervous system.
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
- Blumenfeld, Hal, 2010, Neuroanatomy through clinical cases, 2nd edn, Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN: 9780878936137.