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Neuroimaging for Clinical Research (CLRS90017)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Contact information
August
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Future Students: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/graduate-certificate-in-clinical-research/
Current Students: TL-ClinicalResearch@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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Topics covered include:
- Expert briefings on the current research questions in dementias, movement disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
- Major emphasis on cutting-edge human imaging techniques
- Cognitive functioning
- Research techniques in clinical neurophysiology
- Introduction to neuroimaging techniques
- Principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Practical demonstration of language functional MRI
- Structural MR imaging and clinical research applications
- Functional MR imaging and clinical research applications
- Analysis of MR imaging
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and research applications
- New frontiers in multi-disciplinary clinical neuroscience research
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should;
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of various advanced clinical research techniques that have broad application to many areas of neuroscience
- Understand clinical research applications of brain imaging techniques
- Understand the need for multi-disciplinary integration in clinical research and be able to establish appropriate collaborations across disciplines
- Have gained insights into current research applications of these techniques across the various neuroscience disciplines
- Be able to develop innovative strategies to investigate clinical neuroscience research questions to pursue in response to particular neurological problems
- Have achieved a level of competency enabling them to create and conduct high quality clinical neuroscience research projects from the original concept through to submission of competitive research proposals
Last updated: 3 November 2022