1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Physical principles, image reconstruction, image quality.
Physical therapy TENS, ultrasound therapy, PEMFs, laser
therapy, UV, IR, microwave therapies.
Biomaterials biocompatibility, implants in orthopaedics and
dentistry, limb prostheses, cell-substrate interactions.
Functional electrical stimulation.
Environmental biophysics: overuse injury, effects of noise,
electromagnetic radiation, etc. Effects of heat and cold.
Recommended reading
Webb, S. (ed), The Physics of Medical Imaging, Bristol, Hilger, 1992
SP626 Applied Neurosciences
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:
SP524 Assessment: assignments and examination
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Objective
To provide an overview of higher cortical function with
associated physiological and behavioural measures.
Content
Cognitive processes.
Speech laterality, learning, mechanics, interpretation, injury.
Memory.
Behavioural aspects of sleep and consciousness.
Affective status, emotion.
Disorders of higher cortical functions depression, anxiety,
schizophrenia.
Recommended reading
Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q., Fundamentals of Human
Neuropsychology. 3rd edn, New York, Freeman, 1990
SP630 Instrumentation Systems B
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: SPfi30 Assessment: examination a d CML tests
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation and Computing
and Instrumentation)
Content
Lectures on selected subjects of importance for
instrumentation including; control theory, radiation and
matter, neural networks, transducers and sensors,
mossbauder spectroscopy and fibre optic sensing.
SP631 Neurophysiology of Mental Disorders
Subject to reaccreditation.
20 credit points 6 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: SP527 Assessment: examination and
assignment
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science/
Bachelor of Arts co-major (Psychology and
Psychophysiology)
0 bjedive
Provides a knowledge of the processes underlying mental
disorders, brain injury, and degenerative diseases.
Content
Disorders of affect: theories of depression, monoamines and
depression, mechanism of action of antidepressants, anxkty
and benzodiazapine-GABA interactions.
Schizophrenia: causation, abnormal metabolismmonoamine
systems, symptomatology, diagnosis,
hemispherical lateralisation, frontal lobe dysfunction,
investigative techniques.
Brain injury: causes, specific deficits, diagnosis. Ageing
effects on brain function: normal degeneration,
cerebrovascular disease, decreased sensory stimulation,
metabolic indicators.
Pathological degeneration-Parkinson's disease, neurological
disorder Alzheimer type dementia.
Recommended reading
Kandel E.R., Schwartz J.H. & Jessel T.M., Principles of ?&WTU~
Science. 3rd edn, London, Appleton Lange, 1991
SP632 Psychophysiology Project
12.5 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: SPfi28 Assessment: report and seminar
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science/
Bachelor of Arts co-major (Psychology and
Psychophysiology)
Objedives
To provide skills for research project within the area of
psychophysiology.
Completion of a research report based upon work
completed by the student during the semester.
Content
This subject gives students the opportsubjecty to apply
techniques and skills introduced in the psychophysiology
and psychology courses in an investigation of a topic of
interest. Students may select the topic at an early stage of the
third year of the course, which can be adequately supervised,
investigated and reported on within the time constraint. The
project work may involve physiological or psychological
data collection, literature research, or a combination of
these. Projects will usually be individual but may sometimes
involve shared aspects. Students will make a short verbal
presentation on their project topic and submit a final
written report.
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SP704 Psychophysiology -3;
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Prerequisites: Students
must have achieved a high standard in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Psychology and Psychophysiology) Program
Assessment: assignment and examination
A subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours)
0 bjedives
To critically investigate the case for mental states being
comprehensible in terms of neurobiological states.
Content
Introduction to the philosophy of science with articular
emphasis on epistemology and the development of theory;
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