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Neuroscience | UCSF Graduate Division

The Neuroscience PhD program prepares students for independent research and teaching in neuroscience. It seeks to train students who will be expert in one particular approach to neuroscientific research, but who will also have a strong general background in other areas of neuroscience and related disciplines. To achieve this objective, students take interdisciplinary core and advanced courses in neuroscience, as well as related courses sponsored by other graduate programs. In addition, students carry out research under the supervision of faculty members in the program.

The UCSF Neuroscience program faculty, who are among the world leaders in their respective areas of neuroscience, utilize innovative cellular, computational, electrophysiological, genetic, imaging, and molecular strategies to address outstanding problems in neuroscience. These approaches are employed in an integrative manner to engage in research in all areas of neuroscience, including behavior, biophysics, cell biology, development, neural systems, and disorders of the nervous system. The collaborative nature of the UCSF environment offers a unique opportunity in which to take advantage of the interdisciplinary nature of research at the frontier of modern neuroscience.

facultyThe Neuroscience program currently has 80 faculty members from the following departments and areas: anatomy, biochemistry and biophysics, bioengineering, the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Center, cell and tissue biology, CMP, CVRI, the Diabetes Center, Gladstone Institutes, neurological surgery, neurology, the Neuroscience Imaging Center, ophthalmology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics-medical genetics, pediatrics-neonatology, pharmaceutical chemistry, physical therapy, physiology, and psychiatry.

The Neuroscience program is a member of the Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS).

sub-disciplines

Cellular/Molecular NeuroscienceDevelopmental NeuroscienceNeuroscience of DiseaseSystems/Computational Neuroscience

The Neuroscience program is based primarily at Mission Bay, but also has faculty at Parnassus, the UCSF affiliated Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and Gallo Center. Visit the program website for more information.

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Session on: Neuroscienceand Neurosurgery

Neuroscienceincludes brain, spinal cord and nerves related study. It is a place wherepsychology related studies collaborate with biology. Whereas ClinicalNeuroscience which is a branch of neuroscience deals on the diseases anddisorders of the brain and central nervous system and serves as a base to the futureof Psychiatry.

Neurosurgeryis mainly related with surgeries related to CNS andBrainincluding operative measures with diagnosis and treats the patients withdiseases/disorders related to the brain, spinal cord and spinal column, andperipheral nerves within all parts of the body specializes for both adult andpediatric patients.

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Related Associations& Societies: Societyfor Neuroscience, Socialand Affective Neuroscience Society, British NeuroscienceAssociation, ChineseSociety for Neuroscience, GermanNeuroscience Society, International BehaviouralNeuroscience Society (IBNS), EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), Cognitive NeuroscienceSociety (CNS), NorwegianNeuroscience Society (NTNU), Federationof Neuroscience Societies of Latin America and the Caribbean (FALAN)

Session on: Neurology

Disordersrelated to Nervoussystem and also with the diagonstic and the therapeutic measures taken withthe help of a neurologist. Neurologist is a specialised in neurology relatedcases and studies. He can also be involved in the clinical practices or in thetranslational research. Further can be defined and explained as power ofgenetics involved in neurology, have made its transformations with the complexities of both neurology and neuroscience at thebasic, translational, and presently also with the clinical level. NeurologicalProcedures could be defined with certain divisional tests like Lumbar puncture,Tensilon test, Electroencephalogram are used to diagnose neurologicaldisorders.

Considerationwith the disorder type, medical therapies for Neurologicaldisorders stays quite different which mainly includes Gene therapy, Stemcell therapy, Cognitive Therapy can be used to treat disorders like Parkinsonsdisease, Epilepsy,Obsessive Compulsive Disorder etc. Some of the basic therapy involves Changesin Lifestyle, Physiotherapy, Pain Management and Medication.

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Related Associations& Societies: AmericanNeurological Association (ANA), Ataxia Study Group,Association of Parkinsonismand Related Disorders, CitizensUnited for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), BritishEpilepsy Association, The InternationalHeadache Society,The National Migraine Association (USA), MultipleSclerosis International Federation, NationalInstitute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Session on: Disordersof the Nervous System

Brainand Spinal Cord neoplasm which are considered to be very dangerous and lifethreatening causes, these kinds of studies comes under the aspects of NeuroOncology. Which represents diverse group of malignant tumours affectingmainly CNS or peripheral nervous system. Causes of Addictionmight be due to Alcohol: Intake and preference and Alcohol: Tolerance,dependence and withdrawal Alcohol: Developmental effects, Alcohol: Behavioraleffects, Alcohol: Neural mechanisms, Nicotine: Neural mechanisms of addiction, Nicotine:Reinforcement, seeking and reinstatement, Nicotine: Developmental effects, Cocaine:Neural mechanisms of addiction, Cocaine reinforcement, seeking andreinstatement, Amphetamine and related drugs: Neural mechanismsof addiction, Amphetamine and related drugs: Reinforcement, seeking and reinstatement,Cocaine, amphetamine and related drugs: Toxicity, Cocaine, amphetamine andrelated drugs: Developmental effects, Opioids: Neural mechanisms of addiction, Opioidreinforcement, seeking and reinstatement, Opioids: Tolerance, dependence andwithdrawal, Opioids: Developmental effects, Opioids: Translational and clinicalstudies, Cannabinoids: Neural mechanisms and addiction, Cannabinoid reinforcement,seeking and reinstatement, Cannabinoids: Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal, Cannabinoids:Developmental effects, Sedative hypnotics and anxiolytics, Addiction: Genetics, Addiction treatment:Translational and clinical studies, Learning, memory, dependence and addiction,Neural plasticity, dependence and addiction, Addiction: Behavioral pharmacology.Neuroinflammation is cause of inflammation of the nervous tissues which leadsto several life-threatening neurodegenerativedisorders multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer'sdisease, Parkinson's disease, tauopathies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosisand prion diseases.

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Session on: Neuro-PsychiatricEpidemiology and Neuropsychopharmacology

Mostof drug effects lead to Neuropsychological disturbances with mental disturbances influencing behaviouralchanges, brainfunctioning mechanisms. Neuroepidemiology area includes researchmethodology and the epidemiology of neurological disease.To study the genetic and psychosocial related factors that correlate to theprevalence, incidence, and outcome strategies of different types of psychiatric and psychological disorder,which can be possibly studied under PsychiatricEpidemiology.

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Related Associationsand Societies: AmericanNeuropsychiatric Association (ANPA), BritishNeuropsychiatry Association, SpecialInterest Group in Neuropsychiatry (SIGN),Royal Collegeof Psychiatrists, Instituteof Neurology, EuropeanBrain and Behaviour Society, American Board ofPsychiatry and Neurology, American Osteopathic Boardof Neurology and Psychiatry, Institute for Music andNeurologic Function, American PsychologicalAssociation

Session on: Stemcells and Neuroimmunomodulation

Inducedpluripotent stem cells and models of disease with neural differentiation ofpluripotent stem cells are studied under these categories. Embryonic stem cellsand adult stem cells are the two main sources from which the stem cell arises.Embryonic stem cells are formed during the blastocyst phase of embryologicaldevelopment.

Stem cellregulation and neuronal differentiation of CNS stemcells derived from the embryonic stages. Immunological and nervous systemfunctions along with auto immune diseases are briefly studied under Neuroimmunomodulation.

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Related Associations& Societies: Myasthenia GravisAssociation, InternationalSociety of Neuro immunology, TheJapanese Society for Neuroimmunology, IndianImmunology Society, TheMultiple Sclerosis Association of America, Multiple SclerosisInternational Federation, Huntington's diseaseSociety of America and Hydrocephalus Association, InternationalDyslexia Association and International Essential Tremor Foundation, PeripheralNerve Society.

Session on: Autismand Neurodevelopmental disorders

Autismspectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of developmental disabilities defined by

Significantsocial, communication, and behavioural impairments.

Majorfactors of improper functioning of the neurological system and brain are thesymptoms of NeurologicalDisorders. In children attention-deficit/hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD), autism, learning disabilities, intellectual disability (alsoknown as mental retardation), conduct disorders, cerebral palsy, and impairmentsin vision and hearing, childrens and infants with neurodevelopmental disorderscan experience difficulties with language and speech, motor skills, behavior,memory, learning, or other neurologicalfunctions. While the symptoms and behavior of neurodevelopmentaldisabilities often change or evolve as a child grows older, some disabilitiesare permanent.

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Related Associations &Societies: World AutismOrganisation, AustralianAdvisory Board on Autism Spectrum Disorders, AutismAssociation of Western Australia, Bahrain Society forChildren with Behavioral and Communication Difficulties, Canadian NationalAutism Foundation, Autism Society of British Columbia, Autism SocietyOntario, Cyprus Association for Autistic Persons (CAAP), Beijing RehabilitationAssociation for Autistic Children (BRACC).

Session on: Migraineand headaches

Amigrainecan cause severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on just oneside of the head. It's often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extremesensitivity to light and sound.

Migraineattacks can cause significant pain for hours to days and can be so severe thatthe pain is disabling. Warning symptoms known as aura may occur before or withthe headache.These can include flashes of light, blind spots, or tingling on one side of theface or in your arm or leg. Medications can help prevent some migraines andmake them less painful.

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Related Associations& Societies: American MigraineFoundation, AmericanHeadache Society, MigraineResearch Foundation, National HeadacheFoundation, NYU | TheDivision of Headache, ANIRCEF (Italy), AustrianHeadache Society, BritishAssociation for the Study of Headache, Romanian Society of NeurologyHeadache Group

Session on: SpinalCord Compression

Permanentloss of neurologicalfunctions with initial injury on spinal cord leads to a need of emergencyconditions. Cause could be neurodegenerativediseases mainly like arthritis. When cancer cells develops near the area ofSpine that leads to Malignant spinal cord compression. Pressure on spinal cordcauses Spinalcord compression.

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Related Associationsand Society: American Spinal InjuryAssociation (ASIA), Canadian & AmericanSpinal Research Organization, Center for ParalysisResearch, Foundationfor Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Care & Cure, InternationalCampaign for Cure of Spinal Injury, NationalSpinal Cord Injury Association, Spinal Cord InjuryInformation Network

Session on: Alzheimer'sdisease, dementia and mild cognitive impairment

Alzheimer'sis a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time, becoming severe enoughto interfere with daily tasks. Physiological functions and processing of APPand APP metabolites, Abeta assembly and deposition, APP/Abeta: Animal models, APP/Abeta:Cellular models. In vivo therapeutics and In vitro therapeutics can also beincluded. Immune mechanisms are also considered to check the cause of Alzheimers disease.

Dementia is ageneral term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere withdaily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer's is the most common type ofdementia. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vasculardementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common dementia type.But there are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia,including some that are reversible, such as thyroid problems and vitamindeficiencies.

Mildcognitive impairment (MCI) causes a slight but noticeable and measurabledecline in cognitive abilities, including memory and thinking skills. A personwith MCI is at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's or another dementia.

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Session on: Strokeand Cerebrovascular Disease

Stroke is nothingbut sudden Cerebrovascular accident which is a medical emergency.

Cerebrovasculardisease refers to a group of conditions that can lead to a cerebrovascularevent, such as a stroke. These events affect the blood vessels and blood supplyto the brain. If a blockage, malformation, or haemorrhage prevents the braincells from getting enough oxygen, brain damage can result.

Cerebrovasculardiseases can develop in various ways, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT)and atherosclerosis, where plaque builds up in the arteries. Stroke recovery:Pharmacological approaches to therapy, Stroke recovery: Non-pharmacologicalapproaches to therapy, Stroke imaging and diagnostic studies are elaborately studiedfor the patients under critical conditions.

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Related Associationsand Society: International Societyof Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, InternationalStroke Society, Societyfor NeuroAnesthesia and Critical Care, Association ofRehabilitation Nurses, EuropeanFederation of Neurological Societies, Neuropathology Societyof India, AmericanSpeech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

Session on: PsychiatricDisorders

Psychiatric Disordersleads to Mental Illness or Mental retardness which disturbs mood, thinkingability, behavior. Comprises of more than 200 forms of Mental illness whichcreates serious mood disturbances, personality, personal habits or Socialwithdrawal. Psychiatric disorders are major sources of disability and excessmortality, and are more widespread than many realise. Research in this themeexplores key aspects of the biological, epidemiological and social aspects of psychiatry,in order to better understand and treat them, and to improve outcomes.

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Related Associationsand Society: Barbados Association ofPsychiatrists, CostaRican Psychiatric Association, CubanSociety of Psychiatry, MexicanSociety of Neurology and Psychiatry, BolivianSociety of Psychiatry, AustrianAssociation for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, TurkishNeuro-psychiatric Society.

Session on: Neurobiologyof Brain Tumors

NeurologicalComplications are mostly complicated cases among the brain cancers and braintumors which are the most lethal entities in human health and mode oftreatment is difficult. Types include:

Primarybrain tumors where as those that begin in the brain mostly occur in people ofall ages, although they are more commonly seen in children and older adults.

Metastaticbrain tumors have their spread to the brain from another organ in the bodyfound to be seen more common in adults than in children ages.

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Related Associationsand Society: TheInternational Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS), Germansociety of Neurogenetics, National Society of Genetic Counsellors, The American Society ofHuman Genetics, Association for Clinical Genetic Science, Behavior GeneticsAssociation, HumanGenetics Society of Australasia, InternationalGenetic Epidemiology Society

Session on: Targetsof Drug Actions in CNS

Drugmainly targets enzymes and receptor regions in the form of proteins and nucleicacid in which activities can be modified relatedly by a dosage regimen i.e.drug whose activity can be modified by a drug. The drug could be alow-molecular weight chemically inert compound or a biological compound as arecombinant protein or an antibody. The targets of Drug should show chemical,mechanical and biological responses including their in-vitro and in-vivomethods relevant to diseases. Whereas the main Neurotransmitters during theprocess of Neurotransmission,chemical targets includes mainly GABA, Glutamate etc. that operates throughfunctioning of Neuromodulators like 5 Epinephrine, Prostanoids, 5-Hydroxytryptamine, Acetylcholine that acts through both ligand gated channels andG-protein coupled receptors. Function as both Neuromodulatorand Neurotransmitter.Lipid Solubility and Binding sites are the factors for chemical signallingvariations; Intracellular receptors occupy hydrophobic chemical signals to cellsurfaces. Agonists and Antagonists modify receptor activity. Chemicalsignalling in CNS takes place through blood or other fluids but is slow infunctioning process. The cell body, dendrites, axon are the major regions forintegration of signals in neuronal and organelle regions.

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Session on: Nutrition-Gut-BrainAxis

Microbiotaand the connection to psychiatricand neurologicaldisorders. Gluten related antibodies in association with neurological andneuropsychiatric symptoms. Consequences of increased intestinal permeabilityseen in different gastrointestinal disorders and brain manifestations.

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Session on: Childand adult behavioural health

Correlatesthe studies of Stress and the Brain functions. Stressand neuroimmunologywith Cellular actions of stress mainly concerned with early-life Stress:Neural, neurochemical, and physiologic effects, molecular mechanisms andcellular effects, effects on anxiety, social function, and depression.Stress-modulated pathway of Hypothalamus, amygdala, and bed nucleus, Cortex,hippocampus, and striatum, brainstem are briefly studied.

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Neuroscience < 2018-2019 Catalog | Drexel University

Major: NeuroscienceDegree Awarded: Master of Science (MS) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Calendar Type: SemesterTotal Credit Hours: 45.5 (MS, non-thesis); 55.5 (MS, thesis); 123.5 (PhD)Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 26.1501Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-9121

The College of Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies offers an interdepartmental and multidisciplinary graduate program in Neuroscience leading to MS and PhD degrees. The program provides a vibrant research component for both MS and PhD degrees leading to published scientific work in reputable journals, as well as training in the panoply of research and presentation skills required to conduct and disseminate the research. Students are provided with a curriculum of integrated courses that include the essentials for biomedical research as well as courses that span cellular, developmental, systems, and behavioral neurosciences, as well as neuroanatomy and injury and disease of the nervous system. Upon completing these programs, students pursue careers in academic, governmental, or industrial settings.

The MS program provides students a broad background in neuroscience and the techniques used in neuroscience research. In addition to the thesis-based MS program, Drexel offers a non-thesis degree program in which students can earn the degree without a research project by taking additional classes and writing a literature review paper. Students who wish to continue their graduate training after the MS degree may apply to the PhD program, and their credits may be applied to the doctoral program.

The PhD program trains individuals to conduct independent hypothesis-driven research and to teach in the neurosciences. The program includes two years of coursework as well as original research leading to published thesis work. Laboratory rotations begin in the fall of the first year.

For more information, visit the College of Medicine's Neuroscience Program web site.

Students interested in cellular, systems (including neuro-engineering) and behavioral neuroscience are encouragedto apply. There are no minimal requirements but applicants should be competitive with regard to grades, GRE scores, research experience, and letters of recommendation. Applicants are encouraged to use email to contact any of the faculty of the program with whom they may share scientific interests to discuss their suitability to the program and/or potential projects in relevant laboratories.

The Drexel University College of Medicine: School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies has a rolling admissions policy, which means that complete applications are reviewed as they are received. Applicants are therefore advised to apply early, as decisions to accept or deny admission may be made before the official deadlines.

To learn more about applying to Drexel College of Medicine programs visit the College of Medicines Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies website.

Students in both the PhD and MS programs begin their coursework with a core curriculum. The curriculum consists of a series of core courses that are shared by all of the biomedical graduate programs in the medical school, and a series of programmatic courses. All students in the Neuroscience Program must take the core curriculum, although the possibility exists for students to be excused from a particular course if they are able to prove that they already have the necessary knowledge required of the particular course.

During the second year, students select elective courses and begin their thesis research in consultation with the Advisory-Examination Committee. At the end of the second year, students take a comprehensive examination to qualify for PhD candidacy.

There are three rotations in the curriculum for which the student will be assigned a grade. The purpose of these rotations is to enable the student to select the most appropriate Graduate Advisor to supervise the research project for the student. The Neuroscience Program Director and Steering Committee will advise each student on the selection of rotations, as well as on the progress and outcome of rotations. Flexibility will be afforded in certain situations in which the student may be able to select an advisor before completing all three rotations, or in situations wherein it is advisable to terminate a particular rotation early in favor of another choice.

As well as taking all required courses, MS and PhD students mayre-enroll in courses having the status repeatable for credit (such as journal club, seminar and research courses) for the duration of their program in order to meet the total number of credits required for graduation.

MS without thesis: 45.5 semester credits

Students may opt to take additional approved electives in consultation with their advisor.

MS with thesis: 55.5 minimum semester credits

Students may opt to take additional approved electives in consultation with their advisor.

Students are required to complete 123.5 credits; for additional graduation requirements, refer to the School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies Handbook and the Neuroscience Program Policies and Procedures.

During the third year, students develop a plan for their doctoral research in conjunction with their thesis advisor. A formal, written thesis proposal is then presented to the students Thesis Advisory Committee. Acceptance of this proposal after oral examination by the Committee leads to the final stage of doctoral training. PhD candidates then spend the majority of their time on thesis research. After concluding their research, they must submit and publicly defend their thesis before the Thesis-Examination Committee.

PhD students may enroll in courses having the status repeatable for credit (such as journal club, seminar and research courses) for the duration of their program in order to meet the degree completion requirement of 123.5 credits.

* Taken each Fall semester starting in the Second Year, until Thesis Defense

** Taken each Spring semester starting in the Second Year, until Thesis Defense

*** Taken each semester starting the Second Year, until Thesis Defense

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Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine

Litvan Wins AAN Movement Disorders Research Award

Professor Irene Litvan, M.D. was awarded the 2018 AAN Movement Disorders Research Award in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

Professor John Ravits, M.D., has been awarded with the prestigious Sheila Essey Award for ALS research. Read more

Dr Joseph Gleeson, MD, has won the Constance Lieber Prize for Innovation in Developmental Neuroscience. Read more

Dr Sean Evans, MD, has won the Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award (2016-17).

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Best Colleges with Neuroscience Degrees – Universities.com

1 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large public university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 249 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 233 Bachelor's degrees, 8 Doctoral degrees, and 8 Master's degrees.

Columbia University in the City of New York offers 5 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 88 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 56 Bachelor's degrees, 14 Certificates degrees, 11 Doctoral degrees, and 7 Master's degrees.

University of Pennsylvania offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 119 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 98 Bachelor's degrees, 21 Doctoral degrees.

Duke University offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 99 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 88 Bachelor's degrees, 10 Doctoral degrees, and 1 Master's degree.

University of Southern California offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 139 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 126 Bachelor's degrees, 12 Doctoral degrees, and 1 Master's degree.

Vanderbilt University offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 108 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 91 Bachelor's degrees, 16 Doctoral degrees, and 1 Master's degree.

Brown University offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a medium sized private university in a mid sized city. In 2015, 102 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 87 Bachelor's degrees, 11 Doctoral degrees, and 4 Master's degrees.

University of California-Los Angeles offers 3 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large public university in a large city. In 2015, 152 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 142 Bachelor's degrees, and 10 Doctoral degrees.

Johns Hopkins University offers 4 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a large private university in a large city. In 2015, 105 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 91 Bachelor's degrees, 11 Doctoral degrees, and 3 Master's degrees.

Dartmouth College offers 3 Neuroscience Degree programs. It's a medium sized private university in a remote town. In 2015, 69 students graduated in the study area of Neuroscience with students earning 69 Bachelor's degrees.

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Neuroscience – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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CSHL neuroscientists focus on understanding how neural connections in the brain translate into behavior. Their research provides insights into the circuitry underlying complex cognitive processes such as decision-making and attention, as well as developing tools to map circuit disruptions associated with neurological disorders, like Alzheimers disease, autism, schizophrenia and depression.

Neuroscience research at CSHL is centered on three broad themes: sensory processing, cognition, andmental disorders.Sensory processing research explores how sensory experiences, like sound, smell, and sight, are integrated with decision-making. The cognition group uses the tools ofmodern neuroscience (genetic, molecular, physiology and imaging) tostudy the neural circuitry that underlies attention, memory, and decision-making. Researchers also study cognitivedisorders, defining the genetic basis ofdiseases like autism and schizophrenia and identifying the neural circuits that are disrupted in these disorders. In addition, there is an effort to develop new anatomical methods to improve our understanding of brain circuits, connectivity, and function.

Much of the work is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary. Many neuroscientists apply physics, math, and engineering principles to the study of cognition, including research funded by theSwartz Foundation. TheStanley Center for Cognitive Genomicsintegrates genetics and neuroscience to form a dual-strategy aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and other cognitive disorders.

January 31, 2019

Weve all learned about math in school. For many of us, it calls to mind exercises like bisecting geometric shapes and cracking algebraic equations. But what does math have to do with researching the brain? Computational neuroscientists like Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel use math to better understand how networks in...

January 25, 2019

Eve Marder, the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University, has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award in the Neurosciences. Dr. Marder is a member of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Scientific Advisory Council, an external advisory group that advises CSHLs senior management on science matters. Dr. Marder...

January 18, 2019

Cold Spring Harbor, NY The ideal drug is one that only affects the exact cells and neurons it is designed to treat, without unwanted side effects. This concept is especially important when treating the delicate and complex human brain. Now, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have revealed a mechanism that could lead to...

January 18, 2019

On January 13th, local non-profit Austins Purpose donated $10,000 to fund Professor Hiro Furukawas neuroscience research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). Representatives from Austins Purpose presented a check to Diane Fagiola, CSHLs Senior Director of Philanthropy, at a communion breakfast hosted by the Columbiettes of the St. Regis Council of Knights of Columbus, in...

December 26, 2018

Its hard to have missed the acronym CRISPR this year! Headlines in the news have heralded game changing possibilities in biomedicine. Controversy and debate continue to sizzle worldwide among scientists and policymakers over the ethical implications of gene editing in humans. At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), though, CRISPR isnt just about headlines. It is...

December 5, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY How is it that a sound can send a chill down your spine? By observing individual brain cells of mice, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are understanding how a sound can incite fear. Investigator Bo Li focuses on a part of the mouse brain called the amygdala where...

October 31, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Is bigger really better? When it comes to sample sizes in experiments to understand decision-making, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) team found that testing more subjects in more trials is not only better, but necessary, to truly grasp what an individual is thinking. A horde of mice and half-a-million...

October 15, 2018

Join us for the next edition of Cocktails & Chromosomes, featuring computational neuroscientistTatiana Engel, Ph.D., an assistant professor at CSHL Our brains are doing math all the time math that makes it possible for us to see a movie, make coffee, or even to know who we are. Dr. Tatiana Engel will talk about...

October 2, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Florin Albeanu and Professor Alexei Koulakov have received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Directors Transformative Research Award for an innovative neuroscience research project on the olfactory system, one of the basic senses that is still quite mysterious. The project will study how the brain interprets smell, an...

September 27, 2018

Data is crucial. But, without the proper tools to analyze it, data cannot be properly evaluated to reach credible conclusions. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel is helping build computational tools for data collected specifically from the brain, and has been awarded a Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative grant...

September 14, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Perfectly normal events can have disastrous consequences when they happen at the wrong time. Take, for example, a horse race, says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Alea Mills. The action begins when the competitors are allowed to burst forth from the starting gate. But if a gate is broken, allowing...

August 16, 2018

Genetic fate-mapping technologies developed by (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Professor Josh Huang and colleagues show in exquisite detail how an important part of the mammalian brainhere, a mouse brainself-assembles over a few short weeks during the embryonic period. In the sequence featured below, follow the emergence of the striatum, a brain area that enables information...

August 16, 2018

We think of ourselves as unique individuals, yet developmental biology reveals what all of us must have in common before our experiences even begin to differentiate us. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Josh Huang and his team show in these images how a program that has evolved over eons and is imprinted in genes unfurls...

August 8, 2018

Anthony Zador, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) professor and the Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Endowed Chair of Neurosciences, has been named a Gill Symposium Transformative Investigator for his work on MAPseq. The prize honors researchers who have made exceptional contributions to cellular or molecular neuroscience. MAPseq (Multiplexed Analysis of Projections by Sequencing) is...

June 29, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratorys Alex Vaughan was awarded the 2018 Alexandria LaunchLabs Seed Capital Prize for the CSHL spinoff company MapNeuro Inc. during the NYC Life Science Innovation Showcase, held in New York City on June 14, 2018. Valued at $100,000, the prize, meant to fund early-stage development companies, includes a scholarship to Alexandria LaunchLabs,...

June 25, 2018

Dhananjay Huilgol, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Z. Josh Huangs lab, has been awarded one of Indias highest honors for young investigators. Huilgol has won the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist award for his doctoral research in the field of developmental neuroscience. During his time at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in...

June 6, 2018

Moving forward by moving backward more effectively Cold Spring Harbor, NY New technologies have been likened, famously, to magic. At first, even the few who understand how they work have a tendency to sit back and marvel. Soon, flaws and limitations are detected and the invention process begins again, resulting, almost always, in improvements....

May 29, 2018

Research suggests a possible target for future anti-anxiety drugs Cold Spring Harbor, NY Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified a neural circuit in the amygdala, the brains seat of emotion processing, that gives rise to anxiety. Their insight has revealed the critical role of a molecule called dynorphin, which could serve...

May 25, 2018

Join us for the next edition of Cocktails & Chromosomes, featuring developmental neuroscientistJessica Tollkuhn, Ph.D., an assistant professor at CSHL Men are from Mars and women are from Venus? NOT QUITE Estrogen and testosterone drive mood, aggression, preferences and behavior in both males and females, but how? Dr. Jessica Tollkuhn will talk about howhormone surgesin...

May 11, 2018

Since 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has consistently advanced the frontiers of research and education in biology. How we have come so far is remarkable, considering that Darwins theory of evolution and Mendels explanation of genetics were at the cutting edge little more than a century ago. Curiosity-driven research, innovation and risk-taking underlie our...

May 2, 2018

Please join us for the East Coast Film Premiere of theTianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute(TCCI)s documentary,MINDS WIDE OPEN: Unlocking the potential of the human brain. A revolution in technology is helping scientists unlock the mysteries of the most complex object in the universe: the human brain. Created by Tianqiao Chen, Chrissy Luo and award-winning producer,...

April 27, 2018

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. Its standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

March 28, 2018

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Using a revolutionary new brain-mapping technology recently developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), an international team of scientists led by Professor Anthony Zador have made a discovery that will force neuroscientists to rethink how areas of the cortex communicate with one another. The new technology, called MAPseq, allowed the...

December 28, 2017

CSHL Professor Bo Li and two collaborators at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have been awarded a new grant under the BRAIN Initiative of the National Institutes of Health. The award of $5 million, apportioned over five years, supports research to better understand how paired structures called amygdalae, set deep in the brain, are...

December 11, 2017

In recognition of her efforts to promote and mentor women in neuroscience, Associate Professor Anne Churchland was honored with The Louise Hanson Marshall Special Recognition Award at the Society for Neurosciences 2017 Annual Meeting in November. Each year, the award goes to an individual who has significantly promoted the professional development of women in neuroscience...

November 22, 2017

What you see here is not a pointillist masterpiece. It is a rendering of the mouse brain, from above, formed by millions of colored dots. Like the famous canvases painted by post-Impressionist Georges Seurat, the triumph of this image is in the relation of the dots themselves. Each colored dot is an inhibitory neuron, and...

November 21, 2017

For neuroscientists, the brain presents an almost endless number of mysteries to be solved. Assistant Professor Tatiana Engel, the newest addition to CSHLs Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, is focused on the dynamics of neural circuits. She wants to understand the role of changing neural activity patterns in decision-making and attention. While earning her doctorate...

November 2, 2017

Cold Spring Harbor, NY One of the most hopeful discoveries of modern neuroscience is firm proof that the human brain is not static following birth. Rather, it is continually renewing itself, via a process called postnatal neurogenesisliterally, the birth of new neurons. It begins not long after birth and continues into old age. There is...

October 31, 2017

LabDish blog Tracking a personentails searching through their email, phone, and other means of communication to map outtheir network. To do this for a brain cell, more creativity is called for. After more than a century of investigation into the diverse cells of the brain, neuroscientists still are not sure what exactly makes one neuron...

October 23, 2017

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that have evolved over millions of years. But so much of our behavior is the product of things we learn only after we emerge from the womb. We arent born with instructions to avoid putting...

October 5, 2017

A multiyear project in the Brain Initiative, qBrain is already revealing the brain as never before Cold Spring Harbor, NY Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging and computational methods to comprehensively mapcountthe total populations of specific types of cells throughout the mouse brain. In a study published today in...

October 2, 2017

Last month, the announcement of International Brain Laboratory (IBL) made headlines because of its unusual approach to a fundamental mystery of neuroscience: what happens in the brain when it makes a decision? Associate Professor Anne Churchland, who co-founded the IBL along with Professor Tony Zador, explains how it could help solve a problem in neuroscience....

September 21, 2017

Families of genes encoding proteins involved in communication across synapses define neurons by determining which cells they connect with and how they communicate Cold Spring Harbor, NY In a major step forward in research, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today publish in Cell a discovery about the molecular-genetic basis of neuronal cell...

August 21, 2017

Inhibitory chandelier cells receive and transmit information from different ensembles of excitatory cells in their cortical neighborhood Cold Spring Harbor, NY The brains astonishing anatomical complexity has been appreciated for over 100 years, when pioneers first trained microscopes on the profusion of branching structures that connect individual neurons. Even in the tiniest areas of...

August 1, 2017

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Neuroscientist Adam Kepecs of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has been selected to lead a new research project that is part of the US governments BRAIN Initiative, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today. Kepecs, a CSHL Professor, will work with colleagues to develop conceptual infrastructure for behavioral neuroscience research....

July 20, 2017

Opening the hormonal black box yields some surprises about sex Cold Spring Harbor, NY Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black box in the brain whose contents explain one of the remarkable yet mysterious facts of life. Its been known for decades that an event occurring on the very first...

May 16, 2017

LabDish blog Confidence is not just a feeling, according to neuroscientist Adam Kepecs. Finding the confidence-calculating circuitry in our brains has huge implications for the future of psychiatry. When someone asks you how confident you are about something, you probably dont offer an answer like 5 or some other number. Youre more likely to say...

March 27, 2017

Do genome-defending anti-transposon systems collapse in ALS patients? Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor, NY By inserting an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-linked human gene called TDP-43 into fruit flies, researchers at Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) discovered a potential role for transposons in the disease. Transposons, which are also called jumping...

March 13, 2017

LabDish blog Written by Annabel Romero Hernandez Memories may seem intangible, but many scientists are working to figure out how they are physically stored in the brain. To achieve this, well need to understand memories at the molecular level. When we talk about memories, its usually in the context of something precious, like a beloved...

January 4, 2017

Austin Wasielewski, born in May 2003, at first appeared to be a healthy, strong boy. About three months into his life his parents noticed his jerking motions and realized he wasnt meeting developmental goals. On Thanksgiving Day 2003, Austin had his first myoclonic seizure. Throughout his first eight years of life he would have up...

December 14, 2016

BasePairs podcast One in six people suffers from a mental disorder, and yet, compared to cancer and infectious disease, neuropsychiatric treatment options have barely improved in decades! Why is that? In this episode of Base Pairs, we talk to Stanford Professor Robert Malenka about the limitations that classic business practices place on modern drug development....

October 27, 2016

LabDish blog What appears to be a few elegant houses tucked in the woods by the harbor is actually an epicenter of ideas in biology, fromthe iconic Human Genome Projectin the late 1980s to the more down-to-earth subject of Lyme disease at this recent meeting. Maybe its no surprise that the Banbury Center has gained...

September 21, 2016

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Imagine if every time you got in your car, you fired it up, put it in drive, slammed on the gas, and didnt let up until you reached your destination. Now imagine every driver on the road did the same thing. It would be pile up after pile up. A...

August 19, 2016

MAPseq uses RNA sequencing to rapidly and inexpensively find the diverse destinations of thousands of neurons in a single experiment in a single animal Cold Spring Harbor, NY Neuroscientists today publish in Neuron details of a revolutionary new way of mapping the brain at the resolution of individual neurons, which they have successfully demonstrated...

June 1, 2016

LabDish blog Too many scientists become limited by the availability of expensive, sophisticated tools, according to CSHL Associate Professor Florin Albeanu. He hopes to change that by essentially teaching a DIY approach to neuroscience. Do-it-yourself (DIY) science evokes images of amateur scientists tinkering with test tubes in garages on the weekends. So, at first, the...

May 4, 2016

The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data Cold Spring Harbor, NY The directions, which came via cell phone, were a little garbled, but as you understood them: Turn left at the 3rd light and go straight; the restaurant will be on your...

May 2, 2016

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Structural biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Janelia Research Campus/HHMI, have obtained snapshots of the activation of an important type of brain-cell receptor. Dysfunction of the receptor has been implicated in a range of neurological illnesses, including Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, depression, seizure, schizophrenia, autism, and injuries related...

March 15, 2016

LabDish blog With the flick of a switch, neuroscientist Matt Kaufman can send out billions of extremely brief laser pulses that will help him understand how brains make decisions. Every time you decide to grab a coffee mug, your brain quickly performs an elaborate string of calculations: it visually recognizes the mug, chooses how you...

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Neuroscience | College of Biological Sciences

Neuroscience majors learn abouthow complex animals, including humans, see, hear, move, thinkand feel, as well asabnormalities that cause diseases and mechanisms that underlie pain and addiction.

The goal of neuroscience is to understand the brain and behavior, how we perceive, move, think and remember. Important aspects of the study of behavior can be examined at the level of individual nerve cells, their properties and the ways they communicate with one another. It is also possible now to address these basic issues directly at the molecular level. Many aspects of the biological basis of behavior are studied by examining specific functions of nervous systems and the behavior they produce. The neuroscience major is designed to provide an introduction to these basic areas of investigation by emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. The prepares undergraduates to pursue advanced studies in neuroscience, take a position in one of the many rapidly growing areas in the pharmaceutical, medical or biotechnology industries, or pursue a professional degree in medicine or psychology.

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Dr. Lorene Lanier |lanie002@umn.edu | 612-626-2399

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Home – Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience

The objective of our research is to develop mathematical and computational models of the underlying neurobiological mechanisms involved in perception, cognition, learning, and motor function. We collaborate with experimental neuroscience labs in the design of experiments and in the analysis of neural data. We also train students at UC Berkeley in these ideas and methods. The resulting products, from basic research to software tools, are made accessible to the public, in the Berkeley tradition of open publication and open-source software.

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Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Darwin Day 2019 (pt 1)

Friday, February 22, 2019

Iowa City Darwin Day is a grand celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity! As in previous years, this year we welcome a slate of world-renowned scientists who will share their research in a series of professional seminars and public talks over two days....

Friday, February 22, 2019

Iowa City Darwin Day is a grand celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity! As in previous years, this year we welcome a slate of world-renowned scientists who will share their research in a series of professional seminars and public talks over two days....

Thursday, February 28, 2019

The NINDS Clinical Trials Methodology Course (CTMC) is accepting applications for the 2019 cohort. The goal of CTMC is to help investigators develop scientifically rigorous, yet practical clinical trial protocols. The focus is on investigators who have not previously designed their own prospective, interventional clinical trials. ...

Friday, March 1, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Yasmin Hurd, PhDDirector, Addiction Institute at Mount SinaiProfessor ofPharmacological Sciences, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai UniversityTitle TBD

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Neuroscience – Boston University

You have reached the website of the university-wide neuroscience graduate and undergraduate training missions at Boston University. We are a broad community of faculty, students, and staff who come from multiple departments, schools and colleges, and campuses of the university. Our individual disciplinary interests combine to form a comprehensive research and educational environment that thrives on our shared excitement for neuroscience.

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