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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also begin to explore theoretical models, biological and psychological explanations, and look at a range of pharmacological and psychological therapies for depression...This free advanced level course, Exploring depression, serves...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...neuroscience. In education, neurodevelopmental conditions can negatively impact an individual’s ability to learn within environments designed and optimised for neurotypical students. Neurodivergent learners, equally capable and intelligent, often need specialised support and accommodations tailored to their unique needs. This personalised approach helps them reach their...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...neuroscience and psychology. His argument is that the developing brain can be highly susceptible to environmental influence, and thus that digital technology opens it to risks including: aggressive responses in children caused by playing violent and often aggressive video games interference with psycho-social wellbeing and children’s attention the potential for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...neuroscience has begun to cast some doubt on the idea that rationality, at least our rationality, is an autonomous domain that can function independently of emotion. It seems that an absence or distortion of normal emotional functioning can lead to breakdowns in rationality. People who suffer certain kinds of damage to those parts of the brain thought to control and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...neuroscience, geography, politics, biology, anthropology, social work and public health. At The Open University, students focus on a specific strand of criminology often referred to as ‘critical criminology’. This strand of criminology became increasingly popular in the mid 1960s, as a number of seminal criminologists shifted their attention away from the search for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...neuroscience has determined how we are judged not just for who we are but for how we are perceived by others. Lyons and O’Mara explain this process as follows. We make person judgements on the basis of two simple processes. First, a snap judgement of how cold or warm we feel toward the person. Does this person elicit feelings of kindness, affection, admiration? The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...neurosciences for understanding the brain, so I should at least give you a one sentence definition of Machine Learning given that many people may not know it. What it is, it’s a technique that allows you to analyse huge data sets, large amounts of data and find patterns and clusters in large amounts of data. So in this particular case what you feed this algorithm is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system) have confirmed Bowlby’s original findings. They have also allowed us to extend our understanding of the importance of the relationship between responsive early care giving and the development of the human brain. The brain develops differently depending on what kind of experiences it receives. From the last three...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs