Translational and Clinical Neuroscience
BMRI5004
This unit of study introduces the principal disorders of mental health and current methods for diagnosing and understanding them. Disorders of development, mood, personality and cognitive decline will be introduced from the perspective of the clinical staging. This model attempts to identify the risks of such disorders emerging and progressing in individuals when all biopsychosocial variables are considered. In this way, windows for therapeutic intervention that would prevent or delay progression from earlier to later stages of a disorder can be defined. The unit will also describe fundamental principles of clinicopathology and some of the latest understanding of neuroimmunology in regards to disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. Students will learn how protenomic signals may be used as early diagnostic biomarkers for disease and novel applications of neuroimaging and spectroscopy will be discussed in this context.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Postgraduate
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 2, 1
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: BMRI5004
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No