Track: Behavioural Neuroscience
Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MSc)
The Behavioural Neuroscience track offers a programme in which you learn about the molecular and cellular aspects of the brain in relation to behaviour. It has a strong biological focus with a multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience in relation to cognition. It covers aspects of brain processes like synaptic function, neuroanatomy, brain development and cognitive functions like visual plasticity, stress and anxiety. The topics studied range from single cell analysis to the relation between large brain structures. They cover the wide range of disciplines that collaborate in brain studies: anatomy, physiology, (molecular) cell biology, development and behaviour. The main focus is on understanding brain functions in relation to cognitive processes in its broadest biological sense via in-depth theoretical and experimental training in course work and in the research lab.
Programme
Year 1
- 2 EC, Milestones, Promises and Pitfalls
- 5 EC, Neuroscience: From cell to behaviour
- 5 EC, Experimental Neurobiology
- 6 EC, Specialisation course
- 6 EC, Current Issues in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- 4 EC, Summer School
- 26 EC, Research project 1
- 6 EC, Electives
Year 2
- 6-12 EC, Electives
- 36-42 EC, Research project 2
- 12 EC, Literature Thesis
Structure of the Behavioural Neuroscience Track
