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Neuroscience (Integrative Neuroscience) at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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22May
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Course 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.

Modules

See our website for detailed programme information.

How to apply

International applicants

This course has a subject classification which requires students whose nationality is outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland to have an ATAS certificate, irrespective of country of residence at the point of application.

Further information can be found on the UK Government's website: www.gov.uk/academic-technology-approval-scheme

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on our website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.

Fees and funding

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Neuroscience (Integrative Neuroscience) at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS