| UQ Neurosciences - End-Users of Neuroscience
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It is hard to think of any sphere of human activity that would not be
enhanced by more understanding of the workings of the brain. This
diversity of relevance is both the strength and the weakness of the
present proposal. NUQ is currently exploring, collectively, the dozens of
potential links to the community, seeking feedback and support. The
growing NUQ web-site is the organ of interaction that backs up these
forays into the community while at the same time providing a tangible
demonstration of the effects of community feedback.
Some general end user areas involved in this effort include:- Health (GMC,
Psychiatry, Psychology, Rehabilitation, Nursing, Geriatrics, Therapies) ,
Forensics/Law /Animal Ethics, Human Factors, Pharmaceutics,
Communications, Engineering and Robotics, Agricultural Chemistry.
End-Users: (Not exclusive: Feel free to add you own suggestions).
Neuroscience is now the favoured undergraduate major for
pre-medical students in the US, both by selection committees and the
students themselves. While UQMedical School selection procedures do not
take into consideration the kind or quality of the undergraduate degree,
this should change, especially in regard to potential MB BS/PhD students.
- Jack Pettigrew (he has already started discussions here, but would
welcome help from other interested neuroscientists).
?Simon Manley
?Mike Pender
? Chris Wildsoet,
Jack Pettigrew, ?Simon Manley,
?John Bourke, ?Graham Huxham
Dyslexia: James Tresilian and Mark Mon-Williams.
Movement disorders (e.g. DCD "clumsy kids"):
James Tresilian, Mark Mon-Williams, Richard Carson.
Peter Snow (Anatomical Sciences),
Richard Carson and Stephan Riek (Human Movements Studies)
(There are exciting new developments here, including Taub's
finding that learned disuse, reversible with the right techiques, makes a
much larger contribution to loss of function than is commonly recognised).
?Peter Wilce, Peregrine Osborne, Kuldip Bedi
James Tresilian
?John McGrath
Steve Miller
Bruce Gynther
in teaching, research and clinical practice: (needs to
be expanded; psychologists, please help).
?Tian Oei, Mike Humphreys, Gina Geffen
?Chris Wildsoet
?David Vaney
?Marcello Rosa (VTHRC),
Richard Carson and
Stephan Riek (Human Movements Studies)
James Tresilian and Mark Mon-Williams
?Jim Pickles
(Steve Robinson was keen on this, but has now left for Sydney. Any
takers?)
This is a perfect area where animal researchers and philosophers in NUQ
could interact with the wider community. I would think that interested
end-users, on both sides of the debate, might be interested in supporting
the training of personnel. Any takers? I know that this is one area where
we can make a novel, clarifying contribution for the community. (Gordon
Grigg in Zoology has already raised the possibility of a graduate course
in Animal Ethics).
Can someone from Philosophy take this on?
?Graeme Halford
?Richard Carson, James Tresillian
?Mark Monwilliams,
?
... we have a long tradition of
collaboration with Telstra Research Laboratories which has included
several of our students spending the summer break at the labs in
Melbourne. Telstra has, I believe, paid their travel expenses as well
as giving them a reasonable wage for their involvement in a research
project. Some of these projects have been concerned with neural nets
and/or with speech processing. This arrangement has led to some of our
students being offered full-time employment following graduation.
--Tom Downs
Teleoperation and telepresence: James Tresilian and
Mark Mon-Williams.
Robin Burgess-Limerick: Workplace Health and Safety,
Road Transport, Preventative Health.
?Justin Marshall, Kerstin Fritsches
?Gordon Wyeth, Tom Downs
Janet Wiles, Marcus Frean
?Steve Wilson, Grieg de Zubicara
?Laurie Geffen
?Paul Ebert, Bronwen Cribb
? Joe Lynch, Conrad Sernia,
?Janet Keast,
David Adams
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