Undergraduate Course: Somatosensory Mechanisms (NEBM10012)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biomedical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Pain normally serves as a warning signal of impending danger which elicits behavioural responses that function to protect the body from injury. These $ùpain behaviours&© are therefore essential for survival. If, however injury does take place, there is significant plasticity within the somatosensory system in order to adapt behavioural responses to promote repair and recovery. This injury induced plasticity is adaptive but if these changes persist following healing or occur in response to disease or nervous system injury these changes can be maladaptive and result in chronic pain which is difficult to treat. This course will introduce the transduction apparatus and neural pathways that mediate somatosensation; explore the plasticity that can occur within somatosensory pathways that leads to debilitating chronic pain conditions and how these manifest in the clinic; discuss the challenges in translating basic pain research into effective treatments in the clinic and outline how this system develops and the consequences for somatosensation in the newborn |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Increased understanding of biological processes.
Detailed learning outcomes will be provided later.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Directors of Studies must contact the Programme Administrator or Programme Organiser for Honours Neuroscience before registering a student for this course. Priority is given to Honours Neuroscience students. |
| Keywords | NEUROSomatMechs |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Ribchester
Tel: (0131 6)50 3256
Email: rrr@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Tina Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)50 5059
Email: Tina.Harvey@ed.ac.uk |
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