IPN M.Sc. students have the option to take either听NEUR 630 or NEUR 631, or both.
Ph.D. students must take both.
Location: Zoom.
Register for NEUR700 in the semester you intend on taking the Ph.D. Candidacy Examination.
NEUR 502. Basic and Clinical Aspects of Neuroimmunology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The role of inflammation in physiological function of the nervous system, as well as in a broad range of neurological diseases where inflammation can act as a
contributing factor to the development of pathology or promote recovery, including fundamentals of neuroimmunology to molecular/cellular aspects of
neuroinflammation underlying the pathology seen in clinical conditions.
- Prerequisites: (MIMM 214 or MIMM 314 or MIMM 414 or PHGY 313) and (NSCI 200 or NSCI 201 or ANAT 321 or ANAT 323 or PHGY 314) or permission of instructor.
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NEUR 503. Computational Neuroscience.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of computational methods commonly used to model brain function, including mathematical modeling to describe the relationship between neuronal activity and perception, action, and cognition. Mathematical basis for vision, motor
control and attention. Data relevant to brain processes and models explaining these data, using engineering, statistics and artificial intelligence.
- Winter
- Basic neuroanatomy/neurophysiology, some mathematics (linear algebra calculus, probability/statistics) or consent of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NEUR 603.
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NEUR 507. Topics in Radionuclide Imaging.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course deals with neuroreceptor and oncologic imaging and imaging of cerebral bloodflow and metabolism. The role of radiochemistry and physics will be demonstrated in the context of clinical and research applications. Understanding how radiochemistry and physics intermingle with the medical aspects of radiotracer development will result in a deeper insight into the complex pathways of tracer design and the methods necessary to properly interpret the data obtained.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken NEUR 607.
- Fall
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NEUR 550. Free Radical Biomedicine.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An interdisciplinary course on the biochemistry and cellular/molecular biology of free radicals, transition metals, oxidative stress and antioxidants and their roles in health and disease.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: BIOL 200, BIOL 201, BIOC 311, BIOC 312, PHGY 209, PHGY 210 or permission of instructor.
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NEUR 560. History of Neuroscience.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A historical survey of neuroscience, from antiquity to the major discoveries of the 20th century. Conceptual and technical advances having led to our current understanding of brain function and dysfunctions will be discussed. Particular attention will be given to sensory systems and cognitive processes.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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NEUR 570. Human Brain Imaging.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Current methods that are used to investigate human brain structure and function will be discussed with an emphasis on Magnetic Resonance-based techniques including functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
- Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Students must be enrolled in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience (IPN) graduate program at 51吃瓜网. 51吃瓜网students enrolled in other graduate programs as well as undergraduate students and students from other universities are encouraged to apply and should contact the course instructors.
- Contact hours: by appointment - please contact any of the responsible instructors by email
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NEUR 602. Current Topics in Neuroscience.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Current topics in Neuroscience.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of unit instructor
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Section 16 - Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and memory across the lifespan
Instructors: Xiaoqian Chai, Maiya Geddes, Alexander Barnett, Sam Audrain
The goal of the course is to introduce topics and methods in cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory (broadly defined) across the human lifespan, in both healthy development/ageing and in neurological conditions.
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NEUR 604 (3 credits) 
Biology of Neurological Disease 2025
NEUR 605. Neuroscience Seminar 4.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course focuses on neuronal development and maturation from a molecular aspect. We introduce various model organisms and systems that are used to study molecular aspects of development, explore their particular advantages and explore the cellular and molecular events that contribute to the development of the nervous system.
- Winter
- Offered alternate years - odd numbered years
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NEUR 606. Methods in Neuroimaging.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the design and analysis of neuroimaging experiments in humans.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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NEUR 608. Neuroimaging Data Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neuroscience, Integrated Pgm (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Cutting-edge analytics as applied to complex and multimodal neuroimaging datasets. Topics include statistics, associative techniques, graph theoretical analysis, causal models, nonparametric inference, and meta-analytical synthesis.
- Restrictions: Only open to students enrolled in the M.Sc. in Neuroscience or the Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Students from other units may also enrol with permission of the instructor.
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NEUR 610. Functional Neuroanatomy.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neurology and Neurosurgery (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will examine current topics in the functional anatomy of the human brain. The emphasis will be on how anatomical organization determines function. The course will comprise classroom sessions and dissection of human brains.
- Winter
- Enrolment in IPN or consent of instructor.
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Note for Winter 2021: The lab sessions for NEUR 610 are approved as 'Tier 2' activities by McGill. Hence, they will be in-person听as long as health directives allow.听
NEUR 710. Connectional Research: Lab-to-World Impact
.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Neuroscience, Integrated Pgm (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Conceptual and hands-on training in connectional research, with an emphasis on lab-to-world impact and academic entrepreneurship. Concepts in ideation, idea refinement and definition, stakeholder identification, market analysis and ethnographic studies, and structure of impactful proposals.
- Restriction: Students must have completed 1 year of graduate studies in the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, or Science.
- Students must have completed 1st year of PhD work. Students must bring laptop for classes.
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Course information not available.
BIOL 506. Neurobiology of Learning.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Exploration of the neurobiological basis of learning, from molecules to circuits, focusing on the synaptic, cellular and circuit-level processes that support learning, in the context of different brain regions and forms of learning.
- Prerequisite(s): BIOL 306 or NEUR 310 or NSCI 200 and NSCI 201 or PHGY 311 or PHGY 314 or permission of instructor
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BIOL 532. Developmental Neurobiology Seminar.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discussions of all aspects of nervous system development including pattern formation, cell lineage, pathfinding and targeting by growing axons, and neural regeneration. The basis for these discussions will be recent research papers and other assigned readings.
- Winter
- 1 hour lecture, 2 hours seminar
- Prerequisites: BIOL 303 or BIOL 306 or permission of instructor
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BIOL 546. Genetics of Model Systems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics in the genetics and molecular genetics of unicellular, plant, invertebrate and vertebrate models systems.
- Prerequisites: BIOL 202 or BIOL 302; BIOL 300; BIOL 303 recommended
- Fall course given every second year, alternating with BIOL 544; enrollment limited to 15 students
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BIOL 580. Genetic Approaches to Neural Systems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will focus on recent research employing genetic-based methods to examine the functional and structural properties of the nervous system. The focus will be on approaches for studying neural circuits and behavior in a range of model organisms. Topics will include recent technological advances, such as optogenetics for modifying and controlling neuronal activity, and animal models of neurological diseases. Students will critically analyze the application of these methods to current research through in-class discussion of primary literature, student presentations, and written assignments.
- Prerequisite(s): BIOL 306 or permission of the instructors.
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BIOL 588. Advances in Molecular/Cellular Neurobiology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discussion of fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying the general features of cellular neurobiology. An advanced course based on lectures and on a critical review of primary research papers.
- Fall
- 1.5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours seminar
- Prerequisite: BIOL 300 and BIOL 306 or permission
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BIOL 568. Topics on the Human Genome.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Cellular and molecular approaches to characterization of the human genome.
- Winter
- 3 hours lecture
- Prerequisites: (BIOL 200 or BIOL 219); BIOL 300; BIOL 302; or permission of the course coordinator.
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BMDE 501. Selected Topics in Biomedical Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An overview of how techniques from engineering and the physical sciences are applied to the study of selected physiological systems and biological signals. Using specific biological examples, systems will be studied using: signal or finite-element analysis, system and identification, modelling and simulation, computer control of experiments and data acquisition.
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BMDE 600D1. Seminars in Biomedical Engineering.
Credits: 1.5
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course requires students to regularly attend the departmental seminar series and to present a seminar related to their research.
- Students must register for both BMDE 600D1 and BMDE 600D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both BMDE 600D1 and BMDE 600D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- Students must register for BMDE 600D1 before BMDE 600D2.
- Restriction(s): This course is open only to students registered in the second term or later of the M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering (Thesis) and M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering; (Thesis) Bioinformatics programs.
- Not open to students who have taken BMDE 500D1/D2.
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BMDE 600D2. Seminars in Biomedical Engineering.
Credits: 1.5
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course requires students to regularly attend the departmental seminar series and to present a seminar related to their research.
- Students must register for both BMDE 600D1 and BMDE 600D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both BMDE 600D1 and BMDE 600D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms.
- Students must register for BMDE 600D1 before BMDE 600D2.
- Restriction(s): This course is open only to students registered in the second term or later of the M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering (Thesis) and M.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering; (Thesis) Bioinformatics programs.
- Not open to students who have taken BMDE 500D1/D2.
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BMDE 610. Functional Neuroimaging Fusion.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Biomedical engineering: Multimodal data fusion of electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging data, including: detailed description of source localization methods for Electro- and MagnetoEncephaloGraphy data, analysis of brain hemodynamic activity through simultaneous recordings with electrophysiology, analysis and reconstruction of Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy data, modeling of the neurovascular coupling,validation methodology.
- Prerequisites: ECSE 305, MATH 223 or equivalent
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BMDE 650. Advanced Medical Imaging.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Review of advanced techniques in medical imaging including: fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, MR angiography and quantitative flow measurement, spiral and dynamic x-ray computed tomography, 2D/3D positron emission tomography (PET), basic PET physiology, tracer kinetics, surgical planning and guidance, functional and anatomical brain mapping, 2D and 3D ultrasound imaging, and medical image processing.
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BMDE 660. Advanced MR Imaging and
Spectroscopy of the Brain.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques to investigate the structure, connectivity, chemistry and physiology of the brain, including data
acquisition and reconstruction techniques, scanner hardware, and contrast mechanisms. Focus on neuroscience applications.
- Prerequisites: PHYS 241, ECSE 304 or ECSE 306; PHYS 242 or ECSE 251
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Overview: This interdisciplinary course invites students to creatively explore the intersection of arts, neuroscience, and society, and how these domains shape the understandings of ourselves and others. IPN Ph.D. students听and RI-MUHC BRaIN students, in collaboration with Concordia University's Fine Arts students, create听self-directed, collaborative projects which听converge artistic听and scientific research. The course combines lectures, debates, site visits, and independent study to encourage all participants to understand and discover territories outside their artistic or scientific comfort zones. The course encourages both intimate and large group discussions, as well as expressing arts and science knowledge through production, representations, and artistic as well as communicative outcomes.
Requirements:听
- Must be a Ph.D. student. If you are a听Master's student, obtain a letter of recommendation and special permission from your P.I. and the Graduate Program Director;
- Submit a letter of intent to info [at] convergenceinitiative.org听;
- Once your request is approved by the Convergence administrative team, you may register for the course via the .听
DENT 654. Mechanisms and Management of Pain.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Dental Med & Oral Health Sci (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
Presentation of the neurobiology of pain and analgesia, clinical pain conditions, basic and applied research methods in the study of pain, and the theory and practice of pain management. The course is designed for graduate students interested in pain mechanisms and clinical residents interested in pain management.
- Restriction: Open to all health professionals
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EXSU 684. Signal Transduction.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Surgery (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
A study of signal transduction.
- 2 hours/week
- Restriction: Open to graduate students with prerequisites and U3 undergraduates with special permission
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MRKT 7098 RESTRICTED TO IPN PH.D. STUDENTS
MRKT 709. Decision-Neuroscience.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Management (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Decision neuroscience may be utilized to offer information about expected investor behaviour and provide a due diligence tool for measuring asset managers' potential abilities. Experimental directions covered will include neuroscience studies of decision-making at the individual level, including the brain mechanisms behind risk, reward and punishment learning, valuation, motivation, and self control.
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MATH 682. Statistical Inference.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Conditional probability and Bayes鈥� Theorem, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions, conditional distributions, moments, independence of random variables. Modes of convergence, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Point and interval estimation. Likelihood inference. Bayesian estimation and inference. Hypothesis testing.
- Prerequisite: MATH 141 or equivalent
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken MATH 324, MATH 357, MATH 557. Intended for graduate students working on quantitative research questions related to life sciences who have had differential and integral calculus.
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MDPH 607. Medical Imaging.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Medical Physics Unit (Graduate Studies)
Terms offered: Fall 2025
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Description
This course is concerned with the principles of medical imaging as applied to conventional diagnostic radiography, X-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The course emphasizes a linear system approach to the formation, processing, and display of medical images.
- Prerequisite (Graduate): MDPH 615
- Restriction: Open only to students registered in Medical Physics or Biological & Biomedical Engineering programs; permission of instructor for other students.
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PHGY 556. Topics in Systems Neuroscience.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physiology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics of current interest in systems neurophysiology and behavioural neuroscience including: the neural representation of sensory information and motor behaviours, models of sensory motor integration, and the computational analysis of problems in motor control and perception. Students will be expected to present and critically discuss journal articles in class.
- Winter
- Restriction: Permission of the instructor required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHGY 456
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PHGY 560. Light Microscopy-Life Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Physiology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to optics, light microscopy imaging and data analysis for life scientists.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: BIOL 301 or permission of instructors.
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PSYC 526. Advances in Visual Perception.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
We examine in detail the structure of the visual system, and its function as reflected in the perceptual abilities and behaviour of the organism. Parallels are also drawn with other sensory systems to demonstrate general principles of sensory coding.
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PSYC 741. Perception and Cognition.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychology (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
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PSYT 500. Advances: Neurobiology of Mental Disorders.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Current theories on the neurobiological basis of most well known mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, dementia). Methods and strategies in research on genetic, physiological and biochemical factors in mental illness will be discussed. Discussion will also focus on the rationale for present treatment approaches and on promising new approaches.
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): BIOC 212 and BIOC 311, or BIOC 312, or BIOL 200 and BIOL 201, or PHGY 311, or PSYC 308 and an upper-level biological science course with permission of the instructors, or equivalent. Basic knowledge of cellular and molecular biology is required.
- Restriction: Open to U3 and graduate students only.
- Restriction: Graduate Studies: strongly recommended for M.Sc. students in Psychiatry.
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PSYT 630. Statistics for Neurosciences.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Statistics needed for analysing the types of data generated in a laboratory setting, with emphasis on the neurosciences, will be covered. Hypothesis testing, parametric and non-parametric statistics will be studied with a practical approach, using data generated by the students. Computer analysis will be introduced.
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PSYT 640. Non-Pharmacological Clinical Trials.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course will provide an introduction to the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of randomized clinical trials with a focus on issues particularly important to non-pharmacological interventions (e.g., psychotherapy, care management interventions, physical therapy interventions) including blinding, intervention complexity, and intervention fidelity. Topics will include trial design and specification of a primary question; ethical considerations; randomization and stratification; sample size determination; analysis and reporting; quality and sources of bias; interpretation of results; and design alternatives, including considerations of particular relevance to trials of non-pharmacological interventions
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Enrollment is limited to 20 students.
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PSYT 515. Advanced Studies in Addiction.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Critical assessment of research tools, reported data, and theoretical perspectives on drug addiction, with an emphasis on multi-factorial and inter-disciplinary approaches.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: PSYT 301 or permission from one of the instructors.
- Restrictions: Priority will be given to graduate students registered in Psychiatry, Psychology or Neuroscience graduate programs. Open to undergraduates who have completed PSYT 301 or an equivalent course. Undergraduates must obtain permission of the instructors before registration. Not open to students who have taken PSYT 615.
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PSYT 522. Early Adversity, Development and Health
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The concept of adversity during critical developmental periods from gestation to adolescence. Examination of neurodevelopmental mechanisms, neural pathways and plasticity leading to vulnerability and resilience. How single cell expression patterns, neuronal networks and gene association studies can inform about the biological underpinnings of adversity, the individual differences in susceptibility and how these biological mechanisms link psychopathologies to other comorbidities.
- Prerequisites: BIOL 201, BIOC 212, ANAT 212, BIOL 202, BIOL 306, BIOL 370, ANAT 322 or equivalent; permission of the instructor if prerequisites are not met.
- Supplementary Calendar Info: Open to U3 undergraduate students and graduate students (MSc and PhD level). Limit of 25 students. A knowledge of basic mechanisms of biology, physiology and anatomy as covered by respective undergraduate courses is expected and required to succeed in this course. Permission from the responsible instructor is required to register if course pre-requisites are not met. Priority will be given to students having the course pre-requisites and grades higher than C in these courses (B). Course is not recorded.
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PSYT 606. Mental Illness: Symptoms Diagnostics and Determinants.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A broad perspective on mental illness, from diagnostic approaches to mental health policies. Examination of symptoms and diagnostic criteria of mood disorders,
psychoses, and addictions and impulsivity disorders. Medication- and therapy-based treatments and recent developments in mind-body approaches. Epidemiology and social determinants of mental illness, and mental health prevention, services and policy.
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PSYT 630. Statistics for Neurosciences.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Psychiatry (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Statistics needed for analysing the types of data generated in a laboratory setting, with emphasis on the neurosciences, will be covered. Hypothesis testing, parametric and non-parametric statistics will be studied with a practical approach, using data generated by the students. Computer analysis will be introduced.
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POTH 639. Motor Control.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Phys and Occ Therapy (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Overview of how movement is controlled by the nervous system and how motor skills are learned.
- Restriction: Open only to students registered in the following programs: MSc. (Applied) in Occupational Therapy, MSc. (Applied) in Physical Therapy and MSc. in Rehabilitation Science. Open to other students by permission of instructor only.
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Other approved electives as of 2024. Please note that these courses are not always offered. Please check in Minerva to see if they are active, or contact the unit.
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EDPE 688
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Machine learning: theory and applications
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HGEN 675
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Biology of Stem Cells
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BINF 531听
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Statistical Bioinformatics
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EXMD 610
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Molecular methods in Medical Reseach
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EXMD 603
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Seminars in Endocrinology
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QLSC 612
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Fundamentals for Neuro Data Science
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FSCI 500
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Science communication and outreach
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PHAR 712
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Statistics for Pharmachologists
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| BTEC 501 |
Biotechnology |
| EPIB 507, 632 |
Epidemiology |
| LING 645 |
Linguistics |
| HGEN 677, 678, 695 |
Human Genetics |
| QLSC 600, QLSC 612 |
Quantitative Sciences |
With the exception of 500-level courses, all other undergraduate courses are considered extra courses, and you will be required to pay additional tuition and ancillary fee charges. If your supervisor requests that you enrol in an undergraduate course听because it may be beneficial to your graduate research, you must do the following: