Postgraduate Course: Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (PSYL11048)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Psychology |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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), lifestyle 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?
Feedback Events:
Essay preparation / information session part-way through the semester (week 6) |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
77 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
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. |
Assessment Information
One 3,000 word essay
Assignment deadline: Thursday 16th January 2014, 12 noon
Word limit: 10% leeway on the 3,000 word limit
Return deadline: Friday 7th February 2014 |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Reading list |
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| Keywords | Intelligence, Memory, Aging, Epidemiology, Individual differences, Information processing, Neuroendo |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Ian Deary
Tel: (0131 6)50 3452
Email: I.Deary@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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