Overview

This unit outlines the techniques available for recording brain, and other electrical activity measures from the body, and to interpret the recorded information obtained from electrical activity measures. These neurological and clinical techniques are necessary for Psychophysiology and applications.

Requisites

Prerequisites
NEU20006 Neurophysiology

Rules

Pre-requisite
NEU20006 Neurophysiology

Equivalent
HET219 - Neurological Monitoring (Discontinued)

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Classify the physiological basis of human neural processes
  • Examine the type of biological recording system and techniques required for various neurological assessments
  • Critique various electrophysiological laboratory techniques associated with assessing normal cognition and contrast with abnormal neural disorders such as epilepsy and multiple sclerosis
  • Evaluate scientific and health related literature to formulate rationale for the design of a psychophysiology laboratory
  • Design a hypothetical clinical or hospital laboratory and formulate a proposal report

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture		3.00 12 weeks 36
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Laboratory		2.00 6 weeks 12
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various		3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		5.50 12 weeks 66
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentGroup 25% 5 
ExaminationIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4 
Laboratory PracticalsIndividual 25% 1,2 

Content

  • The physiological basis of human neural processes
    • Instrumentation and computer-based recording techniques
    • Electrophysiological recording techniques; including EEG, ENG, EMG, EOG, and ECG
    • The EEG: International 10-20 system; electrodes and recording systems
    • Spontaneous EEG; origins of the EEG, and the evoked potential, event-related potentials; recording and analysis techniques
  • Neurological clinical tests – application of EEGs, evoked potentials, integrity of pathways: sensory and motor. Lesion and stimulation studies
  • Neurological Disorders- epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, tumours, brain damage
  • Measures of cognitive function- Applications of ERP techniques to attention and cognition
  • Brain Imaging Techniques (Structural and Metabolic)
  • Applications of EEG and neuroimaging to studies of Cognition

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.