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The University of Edinburgh: Neuroscience (Integrative Neuroscience)

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Biomedical Sciences
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

The MSc by Research in Integrative Neuroscience covers all levels of modern neuroscience, including molecular, cellular, systems, regenerative, cognitive, clinical and computational neuroscience.

This makes it the ideal programme to prepare you for a research career including a PhD.

Our MSc includes: - A taught component in Semester One, which includes lectures on many different areas of neuroscience, specialist electives, and generic skills training

  • Two 12-week research projects in Semester Two (or one 24-week research project)

The hands-on research emphasis allows you to contribute to real-world projects, where you will have the opportunity to engage with more than 120 world-leading Neuroscience groups covering interests from Brain Imaging to Neuroscience.

This is a full-time, 12-month programme.

What will you learn? The first 12 weeks of semester one is the taught component comprising lectures on many different areas of neuroscience, including:

  • Neural development

  • Neurodegeneration and regeneration

  • Sensory and control systems

  • Synaptic physiology

  • Invertebrate model systems

  • Neural circuits for cognition

  • Motor disorders

  • Cognitive neurology

  • Neuroinformatics

You will also be able to take elective courses, allowing you to specialise in a particular area of interest. Past examples of electives include:

  • Development Neurobiology

  • Neural Dynamics

  • Neurodegeneration and regeneration

  • Neurodevelopment disorders

For Semester Two and Summer, you will be doing research projects.

Our programme has a strong hands-on research emphasis, allowing you to contribute to real-world projects, putting you in an ideal position for a career in research.

You may choose from available projects or contact principal investigators from the Edinburgh Neuroscience community to arrange a project. The Edinburgh Neuroscience community comprises more than 120 world-leading Neuroscience groups covering interests spanning different levels of analysis from genes to cognition, across the life course, in health and disease.

Learning targets and assessments

These are structured so that you are encouraged to learn to produce everything a working scientist would be asked to for their research, including a group poster presentation, a short review of a topical research paper in Neuroscience, poster and oral presentations, a research proposal and a dissertation.

MSc (Res)

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 22nd in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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