Neuroscience (Taught)

This course provides advanced training in integrative neuroscience research, allowing you to acquire the skills needed to succeed as an independent research scientist. You will conduct a year-long research project in a single laboratory while learning techniques and skills through coursework. You will have opportunities to pursue research interests in depth.

Compulsory modules:

1. Neuroscience Research Design Reading Party
2. Techniques and skills in neuroscience research

Optional modules:

Students choose two additional optional modules, examples of optional modules that may be offered include:

1. Advanced Microscopy and Image Analysis - Seeing is Believing
2. Behavioural Neuroscience
3. Biology and Behaviour of Social Insects
4. Evolutionary Developmental Biology
5. Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives
6. Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking
7. Motoneurons: From Physiology to Pathology
8. Memory mechanisms and Alzheimer’s disease
9. Neuroscience
10. Neuroethology
11. Neuromodulation
12. Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
13. Synaptic Transmission

Research project:
Students will spend one year conducting a research project culminating in a data-based thesis of not more than 15,000 words. The thesis will describe the research results obtained from the year-long research project and must be submitted by a date specified in August.

If students choose not to complete the thesis requirement for the MRes, there is an exit award available that allows suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of an MRes.

The modules are assessed principally by written work and oral or online presentations.