Postgraduate Course: Human Cognitive Ageing (GMED11032)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course will give an introduction to human cognitive ageing. It will cover issues within cognitive ageing such as memory, executive function, patterns of healthy and pathological cognitive ageing and future directions for the field.
Course description	WEEK 1 Cognitive ageing overview WEEK 2 Memory - experimental methods WEEK 3 Executive function - experimental methods WEEK 4 Determinants of normative cognitive ageing WEEK 5 Non-normative cognitive ageing WEEK 6 Future research directions in human cognitive ageing

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Assessment (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
Additional Information (Assessment)	Weekly online assessments based on 2 journal articles (100%)
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
Methodological learning points: &· To understand links between cognitive theory and experimental design. &· To understand the differential nature of cognitive abilities. &· To be able to evaluate cognitive ageing experiments and studies critically. Subject-specific learning points: &· To understand differential changes of cognitive function with age, including memory and executive function &· To be able to relate normative to non-normative cognitive ageing research