Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (P02948)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-CACE

This course will provide an introduction to Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. In cognitive ageing individual differences and experimental psychology approaches will be included. A wide range of determinants of cognitive ageing will be considered, informed by genetic and brain imaging studies and including medical (including endocrine), lifetyle and social effects. Relevant animal studies are considered. Cognitive epidemiology addresses the association between early life intelligence and morbidity and mortality.

Topics included are...

Cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology: an introduction.

The ageing brain: What's in our genes?

Pathological aspects of cognitive ageing.

Human cognitive ageing: individual differences.

Human cognitive ageing: human cognitive neuroscience.

Animal models of cognitive ageing.

Stress, steroids and cognitive ageing.

MRI, white matter and cognitive ageing.

Associations in (cognitive) epidemiology: four reasons to distrust what you see.

Statistical issues in brain ageing: What's individual, what's ageing?

Venue: S37, 7 George Square

? Keywords : Intelligence, Memory, Aging, Epidemiology, Individual differences, Information processing, Neuroendocrimology, Genetics, Statistics

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Psychology, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
23/09/2008	09:00	11:00	Room S37, 7 George Square	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the phenomena of cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology.

2. Critically evaluate studies examining the determinants of cognitive ageing in humans and animals.

3. Critically evaluate studies in the field of cognitive epidemiology.

4. Understand and apply the research methods of psychology (including individual differences and experimental psychology) and epidemiology to cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology.

4. Consider pursuing a topic in cognitive ageing and cognitive epidemiology in more detail for the course essay.