24 Lab 6: EEG and fNIRS Lab Visit & Activities
Erin Mazerolle and Sherry Neville-MacLean
Learning Objectives
During this lab, you will
- Become more familiar with imaging techniques through a visit to an EEG and fNIRS lab on campus
- Practice your knowledge of the chemical synapse, neurotransmitters, and mechanisms of action when ligand-gated receptors are activated
- Create a patient simulation scenario
Visit to FNIRS and EEG Lab
To prepare for your visit to the fNIRS and EEG lab, please read this article.
While small groups are off to visit the EEG and fNIRS lab, the remaining students will perform two tasks. One of those two tasks will involve the use of synapse modeling kits. Your lab instructor will give you the instructions in lab as different lab sections may have different tasks.
The other task will involve creating a patient simulation. These patient simulations are scenarios to be written as scripts and later to be read by actors, where one actor is the patient or a family member present with the patient, and the other is a healthcare provider trying to consider the patient’s symptoms for diagnosis.
Other Activities
Procedure for Synapse Modeling Kit
- If the kit has not yet been set up, please set it up.
- Once the kit is set up, please follow the instructions given at the beginning of your lab.
- Answer the question about this activity via the Moodle quiz.
Procedure for Patient Simulation Analysis
- Based on your lab section, you will create a patient simulation for a specific diagnosis. After reading the exemplar scenario (provided on Moodle), considering what you know from class and the textbook, and/or doing some extra research, create your own patient simulation based on the diagnosis you were given.
- Answer the question about this activity via the Moodle quiz.
