The Neuroscience track offers a strong biologically oriented but multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience in relation to cognition. It covers all biological aspects of human and animal brain processes - neuronal excitability, neuronal network analysis and brain development. 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, (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 (epilepsy, dementia, and so on).

The main focus is on understanding brain functions in relation to cognitive processes in its broadest biological sense using state-of-the-art technology via in-depth experimental training in the research lab.

Programme

Year 1

• 12 EC, Advanced Neuroscience
• 25-35 EC, Research project 1
• 9 EC, Current Issues in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• 4 EC, Summer School
• 0-12 EC, Electives (or in year 2)

Year 2

• > 40 EC, Research project 2 (minimum credits for both research projects is 75EC)
• 10 EC, Literature Thesis