Specialist Certificate in Clinical Research (Neuroscience)
The Specialist Certificate in Clinical Research (Neuroscience) is aimed at people from medical and allied health professions (such as nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists etc) and others with a science-based background and qualifications seeking the opportunity to complete specialist formal training in a specific Clinical Research discipline.
The two subjects required to complete the course are delivered by staff from the Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Neurosciences, a multi-disciplinary clinical research group focusing on producing innovative patient-centred research, training and education into stroke, epilepsy and other neurological disorders.
Areas of study covered for Part 1 include:
- Frontiers in clinical neuroscience research
- Expert briefings on the current research questions in epilepsy, intellectual disability and autism, stroke and multiple sclerosis
- Research methods in clinical neurological genetics
- How animal models can inform clinical neuroscience research
- Research methods in clinical neuropharmacology
- Brain development
- Neuroplasticity and neurotrophic factors research
- Research methods in neurodegenerative disorders
- Clinical trials methods
- How clinical research informs basic research and vice-versa
- Research methods in neurological epidemiology
- Research methods in neurological rehabilitation
- Translation of clinical research findings into practice
Clinical Neuroscience Research: Methodology and Disease Applications- Part 1
Topics covered for Part 2 include:
- Expert briefings on the current research questions in dementias, movement disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.
- Major emphasis on cutting-edge human imaging techniques
- Cognitive functioning
- Research techniques in clinical neurophysiology
- Introduction to neuroimaging techniques
- Principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Practical demonstration of language functional MRI
- Structural MR imaging and clinical research applications
- Functional MR imaging and clinical research applications
- Analysis of MR imaging
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and research applications
- New frontiers in multi-disciplinary clinical neuroscience research
Clinical Neuroscience Research: Neuroimaging and Disease Applications - Part 2