SLPA-50100 Neuroscience for Speech-Language Pathologists

This course introduces the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological bases of attention, learning, memory, communication, and emotion. Beginning with an orientation to brain structures, students practice making clinical connections throughout the course. Students will learn to associate symptoms of neurological disease and injury with sites of lesion, and will be able to explain the neurological bases of communication and swallowing disorders. Human brain dissection labs are incorporated.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Undergraduate coursework in Anatomy and Physiology of Communication