The programme

Neuroscience track

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.

Year 1

Hele jaar      Advanced Neuroscience (12 EC)      Elective (10 EC)     Current Issues in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9 EC)      Research Project 1 (18 EC) - for this track 25 to 35 EC     Summer School 2013 - one summer school is mandatory in the programme, second is optional

Year 2

Hele jaar      Research Project 2 (44 EC) - for this track 40 to 50 EC, depending on Research Project 1     Literature Thesis (10 EC)     Summer School 2014