This module follows on directly from the introductory module, Forensic Anthropology (ARCL0119), offering a more in-depth and theoretical approach to the...

This module is intended to provide students with an understanding of materials. It focuses on pre-industrial technologies, deterioration processes, and...

The module discusses cognitive systems and processing in the central nervous system. Four main weekly topics will be discussed.

Students will become familiar...

The module discusses cognitive systems and processing in the central nervous system. Four main weekly topics will be discussed.

Students will become familiar with cutting edge research into Cognitive Neuroscience. Multiple animal models (rodent, zebrafish, monkey, and human) and techniques (electrophysiology, 2-photon microscopy, optogenetics, MEG and fMRI) will be discussed.

Indicative lecture titles

Week 1: Brain state (sleep, fear, addiction, arousal, etc.)

How neocortex retrieves memory to detect novelty
	Working memory and cognitive control
	Zebrafish sleep
	Cortical states
Week 2: Learning, decision making and reward

Planning under cognitive limitations
	The prefrontal cortex and decision-making
	Cerebellar plasticity and motor learning
	Neuronal reinforcement learning
Week 3: Spatial navigation

Neural encoding of space
	Human spatial navigation
	Computational models of grid cell firing patterns
	The post-natal development of the neural map of space
Week 4: Motor system

Supraspinal control of locomotion
	Action planning
	When motor cortex is active?
	Do humans have mirror neurons?

This module introduces students to the emerging technologies in the field of nanotechnology and its applications to biomedicine. At the nanoscale, physical and...

This module introduces students to the emerging technologies in the field of nanotechnology and its applications to biomedicine. At the nanoscale, physical and chemical (and thereby biological) properties of materials differ from the properties of individual atoms or bulk matter. These nanoscale properties are offering new opportunities for disease diagnosis (eg. quantum dots, magnetic nanoparticles) and treatment (eg. targeted nanoparticle drug delivery, nano-targeted radiation therapy). Topics covered in this module include: 1. Why size matters (forces on the nanoscale). 2. The physics of the nanoscale. 3. Nanoparticle drug delivery. 4. Nanoparticles for enhanced theranostics (focus on imaging and radiation therapy). 5. Nanotechnology in Tissue Engineering. 6. Nano-engineering. 7. Nanotoxicity