Neuroscience
The Neuroscience Track offers a strong biologically oriented but multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience. It covers all biological aspects of human and animal brain processes - neuronal excitability, neuronal network analysis and organisation of larger brain structures. The topics studied range from genetics to stress and from single cell analysis to the relation between large brain structures. They cover the wide range of biological disciplines that collaborate in brain studies: anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, (molecular) cell biology, genetics, informatics and computation. The student will study plasticity of the brain, brain development, brain aging, and the pathophysiology of brain disorders (schizophrenia, epilepsy, dementia, and so on).
The strong foundation in biology, physics and mathematics allows to include computational and systems approaches at all levels of aggregation. The main focus is on understanding brain functions in its broadest biological sense using state-of-the-art technology via in-depth experimental training in the research lab.
Contact:
Programme information:
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Sarphatistraat 104, 1018 GV, Amsterdam
Tel. +31 (0)20 525 5190, email: info-mcs@uva.nl
Programme
Curriculum Neuroscience
- 25-35 EC, Research project 1
- 40-50 EC, Research project 2 (minimum credits for both research projects is 75EC)
- 10 EC, Literature Thesis
- 10 EC, Advanced Neuroscience
- 9 EC, Current Issues and CSCA Lectures
- 4 EC, Summer School
- 12 EC, Electives
Structure Neuroscience track:
