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Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the study of the biological basis of all aspects of psychology, and is both a basic science and a clinical process to understand and treat psychological and psychiatric disorders. The scope of neuroscience is extensive and neuroscientists employ a wide range of techniques: Studying the physiology of neural tissue, using animal models of behaviour to investigate the molecular biology and neurochemistry of fundamental psychological processes, and application of neuroimaging techniques to associate brain activity with human perception, action, attention, memory, language, emotion and mood.
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| Professor Bernard Balleine |
Professor Ian Curthoys |
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- Neural basis of reward and reward prediction
- Prefrontal cortical involvement in the acquisition of instrumental conditioning
- The role of the thalamo-striatal pathway in instrumental conditioning
- Motivational control of Pavlovian conditioning
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- The anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system
- Vestibular loss and compensation
- Long-term potentiation (LTP)
- The role of the hippocampus in spatial memory
- The role of the hippocampus in spatial learning
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| Dr Ian Johnston |
A/Prof Andrew Kemp |
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- Cognitive and affective neuroscience: cognition and emotion perception, positive psychology, electroencephalography and event-related potentials
- Neuropsychiatry and mental health: understanding clinical depression and response to treatment using measures of brain and body function
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- SCAN Research and Teaching Unit
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| Professor Iain McGregor |
Professor Robert Boakes |
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- Long term effects of party drugs on brain, cognition and behaviour
- Beer intake in rats: effects of anti craving drugs
- Beer intake in rats: effects of anti craving drugs
- Is the adolescent brain particularly susceptible to long-term adverse effects of cannabis
- The response of rats to predator odors: brain mechanisms and effects of anxiolytic drugs
- Isolation of pheromones from predators that produce defensive behaviors in rodents
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- Psychopharmacology Lab
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| Dr Irina Harris |
Professor Justin Harris |
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- Neural processes (using TMS) underlying:
- object recognition
- Visual attention and selection
- Capacity limits in encoding visual information, repetition blindness, attentional blink
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- Visual Cognition Lab
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| Dr Laura Corbit |
Dr Sunny Lah |
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- Neural Substrates of Actions and Habits
- Animal Models of Drug-Seeking and Relapse
- Pharmacological Manipulations and Neural Control of Extinction Learning
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- Neuropsychological rehabilitation
- Impact of neurological disorders and/or brain injury on psychological functioning
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